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Version: Norton Internet Security 2010
"The low resources claims by Symantec are fales"
Pros: It did a great job of updating itself and had pretty much evbery type of protection a person could want in a products (aside from no Exchange server support)
Cons: HUGE resource HOG albiet a hard to find one. No support for Exchange Server with Outlook, rendering the SPAM features useless as well as the AV protection.
Summary: I was excited at the prospect of Symantec getting back in to the game so to speak. But while their feature set is great the performance and stability issues simply render the product unusable. I have since reverted back to Avast for my AV, Spambully for my email, and rely on my router along with common sense sense to protect me from other internet threats.
The new NIS 2009 along with NAV 2009 are supposed to be very light on resources and fast nimble beasts. Unfortunately the marketing hype is FALSE. While I had almost no CPU usage being reported by windows and by NIS itself I noticed a significant performance hit on my main computer and my wifes computer was almost unusable after installing NIS 2009. After much research in to the cause of this problem I found NIS was causing hundreds of millions pagefaults on both computers (this was much worse on my wifes computer compared to mine but both were way out of control) I checked around on the internet and this seems to be affecting other people as well but Symantec has ZERO explanations for this problem and no solutions.
Then there was the complete lack of support for any enterprise products such as using Outlook with Exchange Server which many other products including FREE ones such as Avast include.
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The low resource claims by Symantec for Norton Internet Security are false. Apparantly the reviewer is incapable of maintaining a computer and blames something they probably didn't use.
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Resource Hog??? Old Norton products, absolutely. But NIS (and I'm talking 2009 here), nothing could be FURTHER from the truth (unless it's in the features I have turned off such as Identity-Safe and the useless Spam filtering -- or unless 2010 has as-yet-unaddressed bugs, in which case, just get 2009).
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I tried Avast before and it is slow. NIS 2009 and 2010 are much faster then Avast.
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According to http://www.av-comparatives.org/ and MANY other sites, Norton Internet Security 2009 (along with Norton Antivirus 2009) is one of the lightest suites available.
All security software will slow down your computer as with nearly ALL software. Norton does not slow down computers noticeably. The new version is EXTREMELY light and fast.
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