Review by Amazon Customer

Like everyone else I know, I should back up my work in a separate place but I don’t. Or I do it once every few months.

I lost a file I had been working on for six months. We are talking thousands and thousands of hours of work. My computer said it was there but the file was empty. I am not kidding.

I took it to the repair people and literally cried my heart out. Nothing.

THEN I remembered something about this off-site back up Norton 360 has. I had seen it somewhere, either on the box or on something inside or maybe when I set it up. I didn’t activate it, so I figured it was too late to do it for this document, but I checked anyway.

So I hunted around on Norton and mine said it was NOT up to date! Great!nnWhy?nnAgain, I thought it was because I had to activate the service and I hadn’t. I am not a computer geek, as you can see.

I was wrong. I realized this after I clicked on whatever to get it to fix itself. Apparently—duh–you must be online when you finish your work and I had not been online for a few weeks with that particular computer.

So I clicked on the fix box and it updated and then I searched thru the files and a version of the document was there. It was not the most recent one, but I had only lost a few weeks of work.

This is apparently how it works: when you are working online, Norton just noses around and backs up your docs without you doing anything. It’s a friendly little busybody. It’s all automatic. You (or I) cannot screw it up so as long as you are online. The 360 will have a back up copy of your documents stored somewhere online—away from your computer.

I am reluctant to write this for fear Norton will take it out and sell it separately—they could. It SAVED ME!nnI am getting something else in addition to this that is automatic. Because I write offline a lot and there is that problem. Any geek out there with an idea?