Review by Mitch10

I got Norton 360 on a Gold Box special. I haven’t used anything from Symantec in a few years as the last anti-virus program from them caused some serious issues with my computer. I’m afraid this just confirms that Symantec is not to be trusted; ever.

ProsnInstalling 360 on my Windows 7 desktop went fairly smoothly; it did force a reboot without warning, but I didn’t loose any data. It offered to add Identity Safe to my browsers and so far, I don’t think that has done anything negative.

Consn360 antivirus hangs more often than not. When I try to invoke a manual scan on a file or folder, the window starts to open then stops. I’ve given it 15 minutes and it doesn’t continue. 360 didn’t catch a Trojan in a file that I was suspicious of making it less than 100% effective. And now the worst part; 360 instantly deletes any file it doesn’t like including system files! I bought a new Toshiba drive and on plugging it in, 360 deleted the autostart file without warning. Now the backup software that came with the drive won’t work. It’s deleted other perfectly innocent files that I’ve scanned with Microsoft, McAfee and AVG too. It especially doesn’t like portable programs.

So to summarize; 360 deletes uninfected files and may still leave you vulnerable to attach. That makes it worth less than $0 to me.