Review by Quoad Toad

I was completely shocked at the improvement of this year’s edition over last year’s. I expected slow and clunky software, but instead found more streamlined, user friendly software.

Setting up Norton 360 3.0 was simple. The new version deleted the old version and installed itself. Installation took about 15 minutes, making me reboot several times.

After it was up and running, it performed well. It immediately found a Trojan without my having performed an initial scan. This Trojan was probably lurking on my computer, which the old version of Norton completely was unaware.

Then, I set up the back up software. Norton scanned for important documents and found files I would likely want to back up (images/documents/music/etc). I was to able choose which of these files I wanted to back up and given options on where I wanted them backed up - to an external server, external hard drive, DVD burner, and so forth. Included in 360 is 2GBs of sever space from Norton. Obviously, this isn’t enough to back up images and music, but it is enough to back up important documents.

Next, I scanned for viruses. Norton found a few minor issues and deleted the malicious files.

Finally, I defragged my hard drive, which took several hours.

So far, I have been quite pleased with the new Norton 360. It runs smoothly in the back ground and is far less intrusive than last year’s edition. I’m surprised that I can actually recommend this software.