Review by Jerry Saperstein

In the beginning, there was Norton, specifically Peter Norton who brought the world Norton Utilities in the early 80s, the first hugely successful package of PC utilities which would do wondrous things like recover accidentally deleted files. Norton AntiVirus wasn’t far behind. Norton wrote books, produced utility software and in 1990 sold out to Symantec.

Over the years Norton AntiVirus in particular became a go-to product.

It also became bloated, buggy and slow and a lot of people, including me, migrated to more agile products.

I have several older computers that needed to be protected, but I didn’t necessarily want to spring for the price of BitDefender. So I figured I would try Norton again. After all, I could always uninstall it, which I did with several prior versions.

This time, though, I don’t think so.

Norton, for Windows at least, is back in fighting trim. There is no physical media in the package. Just a card with a keycode. You have to go online to the Norton site to download the product. By the way, this package permits you to install the product7 on give machines, which may be Windows, Mac OS, Apple iOS or Android. I am using it only with Windows. The Apple iOS and Android offerings look weak. Also, the one-year subscription term begins with installation on the first computer, so be sure to do all the computers you plan to protect at about the same time. Ill be protecting five older Windows computers with this package.

On n Intel i7 equipped computer, I am very pleasantly surprised so far. Installation was simple, fast and without problem. The User Interface, which at first looks way too simple, is actually quite sophisticated. Scans were very fast and efficient. Norton includes usage meters so you can clearly see how much CPU and RAM Norton is using. The impact according to the Norton meters and eyeball observation is minimal, a far cry from the last versions of Norton I used several years back.

Overall, I am very impressed by this Norton and feel no hesitation in going ahead and installing it on another four Windows computers.

Jerry