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After Listening some Great News about Symantec's latest Product Norton 360,I decided to check how true it was and how good was it in its Functionality...Here are some of my observations:
Good:
1. Its Really Not Memory/Resource Hoggin like other Norton Products such as Norton AV or Norton Internet Security
2. Most of the Process such as PC-Tuneup,File Backup,Live update, etc happens in the Background and Does not Trouble the user to take some action on it
The Previous Products of Norton gave lots of Trouble by alerting the user to update their AV each and everytime the machine was ON.This was for a Good Reason but this was very buggy and gave a lot of annoyance
3. Along with Auto-Protect Feature ,There is also another option in Settings Panel to "Hide Auto-Protect Popups" which is very useful in case any user is annoyed about Alerts and Prompts
4. There are various Tools for different options such as Internet History cleaner,PC Defragmentation,and PC Tuneup.
5. SONAR- Symantec Online Network for Advanced Response.This is one such Feature which you all will like the Most in this Product
BAD:
After all Praises for this Softie Here is some of the Really Bad-Bad Part i Found in this Softie ...
1. It does not Alert if Virus,Trojan is Present in Archived Files...Though it doesnt allow extraction of such Files..I Just tested this myself and was bewildered to find why the file was not Getting extracted and gave me errors when Auto-Protect Feature was ON..I just disabled and then Enabled it to find that the Archived File contained a Trojan.
2. Fraud Monitoring Toolbar which detects Fraud,phishing website works with Internet Explorer only and doesnt support any other browser such as Firefox or Opera
Though this feature supports Internet Explorer only ...Its functionality and Detection Rate is Very weak..I myself tested this with certain Websites where the Toolbar gave me a msg stating- "No indication that this webpage is fraudulent" or "Unable to find that this webpage is fraudulent"
3. In case u Need Features such as Ad-Blocking,Parental Control,Anti-spam..U need to install a Norton Addon-pack..I wonder why though this softie been so huge is not bundled with this feature by Default?
There is a surprise in HERE-->This is Available in RETAIL VERSIONS ONLY and U need to Activate ur Product by purchasing it to use the Feature of Norton Addon Pack
4. Its not a "All-in-One Complete security suite" as Mentioned by Symantec.U still need to use other small spyware removers,AV as this Feature is Not so improved and good in Norton 360. For ur Info:- Norton 360 uses the Norton Antivirus 2007 engine
5. The Disk Optimization Feature takes a Hell Lot of ur PC time for First Time when used
This is all what i Felt about this Product..Do add ur views and opionion about this over-hyped product From Symantec...I will update this post as soon as i find more features and drawbacks in it..The reason why i posted this as Many users were just praising this Product a lot in this Forum
Good:
1. Its Really Not Memory/Resource Hoggin like other Norton Products such as Norton AV or Norton Internet Security
2. Most of the Process such as PC-Tuneup,File Backup,Live update, etc happens in the Background and Does not Trouble the user to take some action on it
The Previous Products of Norton gave lots of Trouble by alerting the user to update their AV each and everytime the machine was ON.This was for a Good Reason but this was very buggy and gave a lot of annoyance
3. Along with Auto-Protect Feature ,There is also another option in Settings Panel to "Hide Auto-Protect Popups"
which is very useful in case any user is annoyed about Alerts and Prompts4. There are various Tools for different options such as Internet History cleaner,PC Defragmentation,and PC Tuneup.
5. SONAR- Symantec Online Network for Advanced Response.This is one such Feature which you all will like the Most in this Product
BAD:
After all Praises for this Softie Here is some of the Really Bad-Bad Part i Found in this Softie ...
1. It does not Alert if Virus,Trojan is Present in Archived Files...Though it doesnt allow extraction of such Files..I Just tested this myself and was bewildered to find why the file was not Getting extracted and gave me errors when Auto-Protect Feature was ON..I just disabled and then Enabled it to find that the Archived File contained a Trojan.
2. Fraud Monitoring Toolbar which detects Fraud,phishing website works with Internet Explorer only and doesnt support any other browser such as Firefox or Opera
Though this feature supports Internet Explorer only ...Its functionality and Detection Rate is Very weak..I myself tested this with certain Websites where the Toolbar gave me a msg stating- "No indication that this webpage is fraudulent" or "Unable to find that this webpage is fraudulent"
3. In case u Need Features such as Ad-Blocking,Parental Control,Anti-spam..U need to install a Norton Addon-pack..I wonder why though this softie been so huge is not bundled with this feature by Default?
There is a surprise in HERE-->This is Available in RETAIL VERSIONS ONLY and U need to Activate ur Product by purchasing it to use the Feature of Norton Addon Pack
4. Its not a "All-in-One Complete security suite" as Mentioned by Symantec.U still need to use other small spyware removers,AV as this Feature is Not so improved and good in Norton 360. For ur Info:- Norton 360 uses the Norton Antivirus 2007 engine
5. The Disk Optimization Feature takes a Hell Lot of ur PC time for First Time when used
This is all what i Felt about this Product..Do add ur views and opionion about this over-hyped product From Symantec...I will update this post as soon as i find more features and drawbacks in it..The reason why i posted this as Many users were just praising this Product a lot in this Forum
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