Few things you need to know before install Norton Antivirus 2007
Well, last two weeks I thought I should looking for some anti-virus solutions. I tried Bitdefender Antivirus 10 on my brother’s machine and I was thinking I should give Norton Antivirus another try at lease for the last time. Try before you buy is good solution so I managed to install Norton AntiVirus 2007 trial (the link is not easy to find).
The installation process and overall look and feel gives me some impression. It’s not that bad (or ugly) as you have seen in 2006 version. The performance is somewhat is improved. I must say it much better than 2006. The ability of catching virus and unwanted sofware when compare to Bitdefender 10 and Live OneCare 1.5 is better. The time it took for full system scan is approximately 3 hours (used space is 75% of 250GB HDD), while the worse is OneCare which took 6 hours (for only virus scan). Oh, sorry I don’t mean to compare.
Here few things you need to know about Norton AntiVirus 2007:
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It’s Symantec’s anti-virus application so what you can expect is resource hog. As I said, 2007 is better than previous version but I it still slow down Windows start up time, applications start up time and overall performance. You will notice it if you don’t run it on some kind high-end machine. Note: my machine is P4 3.0HT 65nm / 1.0 GB DDR RAM 533/Asus P5LD2 Deluxe / Geforce 6600 256MB DDR.
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It turn off Windows Firewall silently without telling you anything or asking for your decision. Norton did this before when Microsoft released its Service Pack 2 for Windows XP but at those time AntiVirus 2005 inform and asking for permission. Not for this time with 2007, I just noticed it during uninstallation process.
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It turn off Windows Defender. And again without asking for decision or inform anything.
I don’t know how it dare do this, what’s it assumed itself to be? I do agree with Microsoft for that first decision to do not allow security vender access the deep layer of system. To Symantec, from now on.. Goodbye.
March 26th, 2007 at 13:07
I have bought a PC with vista installed. I also bought norton 2007. but i cannot install the Antivirus on that computer. It requires some windows update for vista. Please advice
April 1st, 2007 at 10:19
I am not sure about the issue you got. For first infomation, norton antivirus have 2 ediions, one for XP and the other for Vista. You can not install Norton AntiVirus 2007 for XP on Vista, there is compatiple isuse due to the cahnge in kernal of Vista.
Sorry for late, I just get back from home this early morning.
April 16th, 2007 at 15:52
To make it work on vista you have to go to www.symantec.com/update and follow the instructions form there.
April 16th, 2007 at 15:54
sorry that was the wrong link, this is the one ou need to go to:
http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/support/special/upgrade2007/vista/select_product.jsp?src=_mi&product=none&version=1.0&language=english&module=NUCWV&error=OScheck&build=standard
July 16th, 2007 at 12:30
Ok
This s naice
September 7th, 2007 at 17:07
Hi I have software Norton Antivirus 2007 already. I also have serial number as weel. but I do not know how to in stall this sofware in to my PC. My os is window vista.
Please help me how can I do. Please tell the each step.
Cheers
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