Norton Internet Security vs. Symantec AntiVirus Corp

"Jonah" <george.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I don't know whats going on with Symantec, I know their products are
> not well regarded by experienced net users but they are fine for an
> environment where most of the staff cannot be trusted to download e
> mail without supervision, Norton has always been easy to use and
> effective mostly. It gets worse and more bloated with every upgrade.
>
> I am going to replace everything with a Sophos Business solution this
> year and Norton is binned.

Jonah, maybe you should send a full-text copy of your post to the attention
of John W Thompson at Symantec. John probably doesn't get to see feedback,
particularly direct from experienced, enterprise users. I'm sure he's kept
well insulated from any user problems. Maybe the downward spiral in product
reliability would stop if he had something to look at besides sales figures
and market share data.
 >> Stay informed about: Norton Internet Security vs. Symantec AntiVirus Corp 

Tried that, numerous complaints to Symantec received Uninstall -
Re-Install replys. I gave up I think they must have automailers
sending variations on a theme to all complaints.

Could not get my money back either (cos I activated it FFS)

Symantec can't be arsed to write decent there are plenty more security
providers who can and won't be going bust in a few years.

Shame really?

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:45:16 -0600, "optikl" <optikl.TakeThisOut@newsgroups.net>
wrote:
>
>Jonah, maybe you should send a full-text copy of your post to the attention
>of John W Thompson at Symantec. John probably doesn't get to see feedback,
>particularly direct from experienced, enterprise users. I'm sure he's kept
>well insulated from any user problems. Maybe the downward spiral in product
>reliability would stop if he had something to look at besides sales figures
>and market share data.
>
>
 >> Stay informed about: Norton Internet Security vs. Symantec AntiVirus Corp 

"Jonah" <george.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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>I don't know about your problems Michael but if they are similar to
> mine I have found a combination that is the most trouble free for my
> systems.
> ...

Thank's a lot for your answers.

The combination that was running on my PCs was "NIS 2004 (without AntiVirus)
and Symantec AntiVirus Corporate 9". There were no problems in the past.

However, then I wanted to upgrade to NIS 2005. First I wanted to de-install
NIS 2004. Then there were problems. Obviously de-installing NIS 2004 also
partly destroys a running AntiVirus Corporate. It did no longer start and
reported missing components. There are shared components and de-installing
one product does not realize that another product is still on the PC. From
then on that PC was in a rather bad state.

I then installed NIS 2005 on a clean PC. There I realized that NIS 2005 does
no longer offer the possibility to exclude the AntiVirus installation.
AntiVirus is installed by default and there is no obvious way for avoiding
this.

As there is no possibility for NIS 2005 with AntiVirus Corporate, I got rid
of AntiVirus Corporate and am currently using NIS 2005 with all components.
This does work.

Michael G. Schneider
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On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 20:39:22 +0100, "Michael G. Schneider"
<mgs-AntiSpam.TakeThisOut@mgs-software.de> wrote:

>
>"Jonah" <george.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
>news:hceau0lqgqbbnnb85jebkafnoiblir4f4v@4ax.com...
>
>>I don't know about your problems Michael but if they are similar to
>> mine I have found a combination that is the most trouble free for my
>> systems.
>> ...
>
>Thank's a lot for your answers.
>
>The combination that was running on my PCs was "NIS 2004 (without AntiVirus)
>and Symantec AntiVirus Corporate 9". There were no problems in the past.
>
>However, then I wanted to upgrade to NIS 2005. First I wanted to de-install
>NIS 2004. Then there were problems. Obviously de-installing NIS 2004 also
>partly destroys a running AntiVirus Corporate. It did no longer start and
>reported missing components. There are shared components and de-installing
>one product does not realize that another product is still on the PC. From
>then on that PC was in a rather bad state.

Seems like you had the same wonderful and enlightening experience I
did with NIS 2005
>
>I then installed NIS 2005 on a clean PC. There I realized that NIS 2005 does
>no longer offer the possibility to exclude the AntiVirus installation.
>AntiVirus is installed by default and there is no obvious way for avoiding
>this.

I used a Ghost backup (ironically) to get rid of NIS 2005 so I got
back to NSW 2003 & Norton Firewall 2003 by passing the uninstall
nightmares. I then got hold of a copy of NSW 2005, uninstalled NSW
2003 leaving the firewall installed and put NSW 2005 back in without
the bloatware.

I found when I put NIS 2005 in originally it was the firewall element
causing most of my problems.
>
>As there is no possibility for NIS 2005 with AntiVirus Corporate, I got rid
>of AntiVirus Corporate and am currently using NIS 2005 with all components.
>This does work.

Glad you fixed it, have a look at Sophos stuff, its expensive but its
the dogs reputedly.



Jonah
>
>Michael G. Schneider
>
 >> Stay informed about: Norton Internet Security vs. Symantec AntiVirus Corp 

I've learned the hard way that NIS2005 is a terrible product. Very
disappointed, given I had been a fan of their prior versions.

In order to correct all issues this product created on my system, I will be
reformatting and reinstalling everything except NIS2005. I'm just deciding
on a different product at this point.

Juan
"Michael G. Schneider" <mgs-AntiSpam.RemoveThis@mgs-software.de> wrote in message
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| Is the combination of
|
| - Norton Internet Security (without Norton AntiVirus) 2005
| - Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition v9
|
| not supported? I am having installation problems. Uninstalling one of the
| products makes the other not work any longer. Should this combination be
| avoided?
|
| Michael G. Schneider
|
|
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