Review by the bear

I have a Dell laptop (core duo) with MS WP installed and Norton Internet Security 2006. No problems whatsoever with NIS 2006.

Usually I have a if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it philosophy but decided to see if there were any updates/downloads. I went to the Symantec download sight. They said I was eligible for an update. I thought it would be an update to NIS 2006 but instead ended up getting and update to NIS 2008.

Installation took a while for this speedy laptop (like 10-15minutes). It went flawlessly and i have been running on it for an hour with no problems. I was not expecting anfree update. Maybe it is because of past problems with NIS 2006. The info just said i was eligible for an update with my current subscription.

I have been buying Dell pc’s since day one and they all come with some sort of Norton software. To date I have not experienced the nightmares that some people have written about except for some ordering problems for some software that never came and it took many calls to get the problem resolved.

So far I have not noticed any degradation in boot time or performance. Like I said, the new software has only been running for a hour or so. My rating would be 4 stars for now only because there has not been a lot of run time.

This is an update to my previous review above. I would rate this product a one star as when i powered down my laptop and then restarted my PC blue screened. Yes it did. I called Dell and was able to restore my machine to the original image. It took me 8 hours more to get my pc back to where I had it before the crash as I reinstalled new software I purchased and had to download all the XP security updates.