Review by A

I used Norton on and off for 10 years now. Lately, I was mostly happy with the program until today.

I have a computer that I do not use very often. Today I needed to start it to do something. After 10 minutes I got 2 programs to pop up asking to be updated. Knowing that I blocked these annoying programs from accessing the internet through the Norton firewall, I started the Internet Security to check the settings. I was perplexed to see that the Norton Internet Security was completely off (firewall and antivirus) and the message was that the subscription could not be verified because I was not connected to the internet for a while (to be more exact it was 39 days since the last LiveUpdate). I pressed the Verify button and the message changes to: Subscription Status: 249 Days Remaining.

UNBELIVABLE !!!! This thing turned itself off with no warning and apparently, it was designed to do so! A product that I paid for and activated it as they require, decides not to do its job. More than that, although I was connected to the internet, 10 minutes after starting the machine, the program still did not verify the subscription or notified me about the issue. I had to verify it manually.

Good product turned to be GARBAGE by design. It may work well, but if it does this, it serves no purpose and only gives people a false sense of security. I just can’t believe they did this…..