Norton Antivirus 2007 (PC)

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Editorial reviews

Manufacturer's Description
Norton AntiVirus 2007 blocks viruses and spyware with advanced protection. It helps protect your entire computer by preventing viruses, spyware and other security risks from harming your system. It's always working in the background so you can surf the Internet, read the news, play games, and download software or music, knowing you are being protected. And when you exchange files via email or instant messaging (IM), Norton AntiVirus scans and cleans all attachments, whether they're compressed or not, preventing you from receiving viruses on your computer, or spreading them to others.

Even if your computer is already infected, Norton AntiVirus is the ideal solution. It is designed to detect and remove viruses, spyware, and other security risks during installation. With set-it and forget-it functionality, it checks for updates continuously and automatically blocks new and emerging threats from getting on your system. You can also set automatic scans to detect and remove hidden viruses or spyware. In addition to protection updates, Norton AntiVirus provides new product features as available throughout your service subscription. So to keep your computer protected from viruses and spyware, choose Norton AntiVirus 2007.

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Box Contents

Software CD & Manaul

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Customer reviews

review by: takedownroddy date: 2007-12-13 rating:
Junk Food for computers
When I first purchased a PC waaay back in october 2006, I purchased NIS 2007 on the belief that Norton were a reputable company and maker of fine PC software. The program did install quite easily, although some software we recieved free with ours, Norton GoBack and another one that I cannot care to remember immediately had problems running ALONGSIDE each other (and just about everything else on the computer) and were promptly dicarded (my decision came after a particularly fine performance on BF2142 was interupted by Norton GoBack asking me if I wished to back up my documents... this huge resource eater coupled with an already demanding game caused my PC to lock up. I shouted at my PC for a while, then shouted at the manual for Norton which was COMPLETELY useless, then shouted for a longer while at the moronic advice of the support centre: "Have you tried restarting your computer?" "Um, yes, quite a few times now. But I assure you, my PC runs fine, I just want to l know how to turn this crappy program off" "oh..um..."). It is slow, game unfriendly, expensive compared to the competition and the customer care is useless. Admittadly the actual NIS software is quite intuitive and easy to use, but it is very shallow and does not allow for a lot of choice in how it tyrannically dominates your PCs resources. I have just ordered my copy of AVG IS 7.5 now the Norton liscence has run out, based on the superb reviews it has been getting and the truly awesome trial version I installed on my second and new PC, and cannot wait for it to arrive. On that basis, I recommend not buying this (or McAffees, which is worse) but instead spending your hard earnt on AVG 7.5 (another two programs reckoned to also have some merit are Nod32 and Kasperskys, though im afraid I dont know too much about these. Worth a look though if you do not like AVG). Conclusion: Norton 2007 makes your computer fat and useless and I will not be upgrading to 2008.

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review by: date: 2007-12-03 rating:
Don't be fooled
I purchased Norton 2004 and 2005 and became annoyed with the apparent drain on my PC's performance. So in 2006 I decided to try something different. After surfing the web I convinced myself that "Bitdefender" was worth a try. I was sadly mistaken. It was (in my opinion) worse than Norton. So, in 2007 I returned to Norton thinking "I guess the grass is not always greener". However, in the past few months my Windows XP machine has just started to crawl - the startup time (after Windows starts and you can actually do anything) is ridiculous and even the time certain apps take to start up (like Windows Explorer) is massive.

What's worse, 9 times out of 10, soon after I boot up, Norton crashes with an "Auto Protect Error". I have searched the web and this is NOT uncommon. And the best of it is - there is no solution to it?!? All Symantec do is force you to make sure your virus definitions are up to date and then restart. In reality they just want you to restart but know that you need to feel as if you have done something.

I was foolish to come back to Norton and if you are even considering then please, learn from my mistake, don't bother. I am going to try AVG next - I have read very good things particularly about the amount of system resources it uses.

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review by: date: 2007-11-29 rating:
Couldn't agree more!
I have the same exact problem with repeated live update sessions and still unable to start auto protect. The tech support is absolutely as bad as the previous reviews. Completely worthless. I also had a recent issue with updating the subscription. Symantec sent me a mailer 1 month before my subscription expired prompting me to renew. I hadn't had trouble to that point so I clicked thru and renewed. So far so good. Upon the 1st anniversary (just 1 month later) of the original subscription I get an email from Symantec stating that my credit card had been charged for the auto renewing subscription. WHAT?! Yup charged me twice. I could never get through to anyone on the phone. I was on hold for more than one hour on one attempt. I tried on line chat but no one ever answered. Finally I had to send a blazing email to get a response from someone. An email was returned telling me the value of staying current and I should let auto renew stay on. Of course I pointed out my problem wasn't that I didn't want to renew and that my problem was I paid twice for the same subscription. He never did get it but removed the charge for the auto renew. This is bordering on fraud in my opinion. Set the subscription to auto renew by default, send a mailer out prompting for an online renewal, and then the auto renew charge. I can see how someone may miss this fact and never get the charge removed. Since I asked they gladly removed the charge but never did admit to charging me twice. They just kept going on how important it is to stay current.

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review by: date: 2007-11-01 rating:
Norton Antivirus 2007
Product that absolutely does not protect against viruses. AVG Antivirus found 6 Trojans that Norton failed to spot.
'NORTON HAS ENCOUNTERED A PROGRAME ERROR'continually appearing and shutting itself off leaving your system unprotected.
Hours and hours trying to resolve the problems created by Norton.
Customer care team that appear to be indifferent to your problems with Norton.
Is it really worth your money, time and sanity?
I think not, do yourself and your PC a favour, don't bother with Norton.



review by: date: 2007-10-04 rating:
Slows things done but easy to use
It is difficult to review a piece of software like this because it is hard to tell if it is doing its job effectively. All that I can say is that it was easy to install, updates itself well, and seems to do its job. The user interface is straightforward when you need it. On the down side it slows my computer down very considerably compared to the previous (more expensive) anti-virus software I used. It makes sending and receiving e-mails much slower and also seems to slow web page loading. It also slows down loading of documents to work on. This can make it frustrating. I will be buying a new PC fairly soon and I won't be buying Norton for it !

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