Review by Brian R.

Installation was fairly easy - I put it on my desktop and a laptop at the same time. The weird thing was that if you start the install by disc, you have to keep the disc in even if you select to download the most recent software from the website. Once it started doing the download, I tried removing the disc figuring it shouldn’t need it any longer. It then got hung up waiting for me to put the disc back in. Once I did, the install resumed and finished successfully.

Meanwhile, I initiated the install on the laptop by going to the URL provided on the registration key’s card. This was actually a more straightforward process as you log in to your account, enter the registration key, then it basically does the install.

The weird thing, though is that once finished, my desktop only shows that I’ve installed it on 1 pc. Oh well, they’re both protected.

I don’t really like the user interface, as it just seems like you can’t actually customize what components are turned on/off very easily, nor are there many customization options.

Our PC was also very slow after installation. I turned off the site advisor add-ons that are supposed to protect against bogus websites and this has seemed to help to some degree, but other non-browser programs also seem to be slow to load on occasion as well.

The packages include so many protection programs, it’s just hard to know what all it’s doing, and with the user interface that doesn’t really give you many details or options, it’s hard to figure out what parts you really need and which are just superfluous.

One day, maybe these programs will actually track and tell you the lag they create by having to pre-scan files, websites and disc activity. While this might protect you, it also slows you down.

All in all, it seems a bit slower than my old Norton package, and I’ll probably look to switch back when this subscription is up.