Review by Computerboy

Symantec’s, Norton Internet Security, aka NIS, has been around for a while. I have been using Norton Anti-Virus since it was invented, I think. It hasn’t caught every virus, or every malware, or all the other junk that comes my way, but it gets better and better, and in my opinion, I believe it is better overall than any other single program out there.

To be fair, I do use the free programs, Ad-Aware and Spybot Search and Destroy, when I believe I have been to a suspicious site, or that I have been compromised, and NIS hasn’t caught anything. I don’t believe any one program can catch it all as NIS, Ad-Aware, and Spybot, can all catch something that each of the others don’t.

Symantec can be a pain for customer support sometimes, but I guess I’ve gotten so used to using their FAQ that I can solve most problems myself. The most common in the past several years, is the program not recognizing that you’ve just bought the latest edition of the software and it tells you your subscription (free upgrades during the year) is about to expire. You have to go in and monkey around to get it to reset and each year I cannot remember how I did it the year before so I have to look it up again.