Nickname: CHKP

Review: Check Point Software is CHKP (Not CKP which is Check Point Systems making physical detectors)

Date reviewed: Dec 2, 2005 10:09 AM

Nickname: Expert on Symantec

Review: I have used Norton / Symantec software since the early 1980s. Until the 2004 release of their products, they were still the best. Since then, the company has released one buggy product after another. Take the released Systemworks 2005 Professional Suite, for example; it will not install without crashing and immediately needs major download updates. And if that is not bad enough, Symnatec is playing King of the PC with users and their systems by blatantly stating that the suite should be installed before GoBack 4, which is included in the box. That means that when Systemworks 2005 royally screws up a user's system, they have no recourse to cleanly uninstall the product often. Also, GoBack itself has some serious bugs since Symantec acquired it from Roxio and then updated it. Symantec became great by producing great software, but today they release "pre-beta quality" products. Symantec's management has wrong priorities.

Date reviewed: Nov 7, 2005 4:56 PM

Nickname: Amir

Review: I bought Norton Internet Security 2005. It had slowed down my PC, and I uninstalled it. I'd rather use zone-alarm free firewall and AGV free anti-virus.

Date reviewed: Nov 6, 2005 9:27 AM

Nickname: moon-man

Review: Computer experts has lost a lot of respects for Symantec products. Poor Software QA and poor software development/management takes the blame to a shameful Anti-virus.

Date reviewed: Nov 5, 2005 2:42 AM

Nickname: Aldi

Review: After many frustrations trying to run required corporate anti-virus and individual edition software for spam suppression and disk maintenance from Symantec on the same computer (my employer insists on the first but does not support the others), I've built a Symantec-free computer that I recommend as a solution to other frustrated users. It utilizes f-prot antivirus software, the MailFrontier spam/fraud disabler, and Diskeeper. These products are cheaper than comparable Symantec products and run smoothely together, even though they come from three different companies.

Date reviewed: Nov 5, 2005 1:14 AM

Nickname: Wizard Prang

Review: It seems that whenever Symantec buys a product, they ruin it. Partition Magic and Ghost are two examples. Their anti-virus products have become little more than nagware, trying to wheedle too much money out of their customers every year. I know too many people who are thoroughly annoyed with their predatory subscription pricing.

Date reviewed: Nov 4, 2005 9:16 PM

Nickname: Unimatrix0

Review: OEMs can install this Norton garbage on all the PC's they want. A user's first act once the PCis up and running should be to uninstall this resource hog. The go to grisoft.com and install their free anti-virus. The progrm is free, updates are free and it does a way better job than Norton.

Date reviewed: Nov 4, 2005 7:01 PM

Nickname: Long live AVG!

Review: Why would you use a piece of garbage software that charges you every year, not for a new product but just for updates? Get the FREE version of AVG antivirus. It does everything that Norton does and has a smaller CPU footprint.

Date reviewed: Nov 4, 2005 5:56 PM

Nickname: Not-a-PR

Review: That last comment is blatantly from Symantec's firefighting team.

Date reviewed: Nov 4, 2005 5:34 PM

Nickname: dylankhoolim

Review: I agree with lookhere's comments. Somewhere along the line the technology roadmap has gone awry. I have stopped using Symantec's antivirus for a few months now as I found it consumes too much of my computer's memory and CPU cycle. It also occupies a considerable amount of my virtual HDD real estate. If I am the average Joe consumer with the average Dell PC sitting at home, Symantec's products just don't cut the mustard. They need to go back to basics and look at what made them the top software 5 years ago. Their software back then was lean and user friendly. For a software company, the technology is their bread and butter. Hope Symantec can get their act together.

Date reviewed: Nov 4, 2005 1:41 AM