Nortons

[YM-Mundrabilla]

I have Nortons 360 anti-virus on my PC which seems to work OK.

I am very much of the mindset that 'if it aint broke don't fix it' and am thoroughly fed up with the sales pitch for Nortons 'Ultimate' which they tell me will fix no end of (previously unknown) problems supposedly slowing my machine down - all for only a $A 1.00/week.

Needless to say I am/was totally unaware of the issues they highlight and don't understand what they are or what they do.

Has anyone had any experience (good or bad) with Nortons Ultimate, please?

Did it speed your PC up and do all the other wonderful things that it claims?

Any advice will be appreciated as I am scared to try it on the basis that 'if it aint broke don't fix it'.

[Engine Serang]

YM I share your pain, well at least your misgivings about Norton. In their favour I have to say they have never taken money out of my account without going through an exhaustive sales pitch and then with my approval. One of their compeditor's acted as if we had a joint account.
Having paid my annual subscription I was secure for another year, hurray.
Woops a daisy, all of a sudden I have 41779 issues on my system including system junk, browser junk, broken registry items and shortcuts. As with Cruise Lines this is nickle and diming and I am pissed off.

[YM-Mundrabilla]

ES, so we do share something in common after all!

My symptoms exactly.

All we need to do now is to wait for the computerised brains to tell us what to do next.

[Malcolm G]

I gave up with Norton and other subscription anti virus years ago.
On my Windows PCs I use Free Avast and Free C Cleaner - they both keep offering a paid for version but I just ignore them.
My main desktop is a Mac which ‘just works’ and is faster. No Anti virus installed and no problems. I am writing this on an iPad and the Mac will happily chat to it and compare notes.
Just for fun I occasionally fire up my Linux machine - also faster than the Win PC and also does not need anti virus.

[Dartskipper]

Originally Posted by Engine Serang

YM I share your pain, well at least your misgivings about Norton. In their favour I have to say they have never taken money out of my account without going through an exhaustive sales pitch and then with my approval. One of their compeditor's acted as if we had a joint account.
Having paid my annual subscription I was secure for another year, hurray.
Woops a daisy, all of a sudden I have 41779 issues on my system including system junk, browser junk, broken registry items and shortcuts. As with Cruise Lines this is nickle and diming and I am pissed off.

ES, your comments about "add ons" reminded me of this clip on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE35RlI-B_8

[John Gowers]

Malcolm G, I also use AVAST antivirus and C Cleaner (which gets rid of cookies, deleted files etc) have done for over ten years with no problems and as you say both are fee for the basic versions.