Symantec, the company behind the popular Norton AntiVirus software, announced the release of its 2006 products. Package purchases will begin shipping the third week of October whereas downloads are ready for immediate install, according to Symantec’s website. Here’s what’s new with the 2006 version of Norton AntiVirus:
Each year, the company claims that less user intervention is required and that more features are automated. This year, the three biggest changes are the following:
1) The software is designed to work only with Windows XP or Windows 2000 (Norton AntiVirus 2005 or older must be used for other versions of Windows such as Windows 98).
2) Symantec claims that users can now "surf the Web without being watched by dangerous spyware or unwanted adware, and without getting hijacked and redirected to spyware download sites." Norton AntiVirus’s ability to protect against spyware has never been that good, but this year may change that. The problems associated with browser hijacking are on the rise (one example of this is when your internet homepage changes without you knowing), and anything Symantec can do to prevent this is a step in the right direction.
3) A new feature called the Norton Protection Center is designed to help users understand PC security.
The cost for Norton Anti-Virus 2006 is currently set at $39.99.
Monday, 10. October 2005
Installing Norton Antivirus 2006 on any computer that has had 2002 installed will cause damage to your hard drive requiring a reformatting of the hard drive. Norton has been aware of this problem for over two weeks and continues to see the product without warning their customers. Their support personnel’s only suggestion is to reformat the hard drive and reinstall all software.
Monday, 10. October 2005
Bob Carlson-
Thank you for that tidbit. It sounds like Symantec is going down in customer service. Thanks for the warning about the 2006 from 2002 upgrade… I’m glad I know in advance. Yikes!
Monday, 24. October 2005
I’ve had the same problem, except that I have been on the phone with Norton, HP and Micro soft. I stillhave not been able to fix my computer. nortons antivirus has shut me out completely. They are no help in trying to restore my computer. I suggust that nobody install the 2006 anti virus on their computer.
Monday, 24. October 2005
Ouch! Yet another strike against Symantec.
Wednesday, 7. December 2005
I am only moderately tech-savvy. I had an earlier version of Norton Antivirus (2002?) and I upgraded when my subscription ran out. Paid for the download. Like a babe in the woods. If I try to get my e-mail with the damn program on, most of the time my computer shuts down. Otherwise, Outlook Express just informs me that it has lost contact wih my POP server. I can get e-mail if I disable e-mail screening of course. My communications with Symantec have been amusing. My contact “N Suresh” has a laundry list of things for me to try. I HAVE A JOB, N, AND I DON’T HAVE TIME TO SCREW AROUND AT MY COMPUTER. I would warn everyone about this buggy and problematic program. I am thinking about a class action.
Tuesday, 27. June 2006
Having been very happy with the earlier anti-virus programs from Norton, when NAV 2005 expired, I went and bought NAV2006 from their site. And as there was a special offer on a 2 year subscription , I went the whole hog and bought a 2 year subscription. After all Norton is Norton right ? WRONG !!!!!! After 2 days of head-scratching, rebooting, formatting the disks etc etc, I decided to google for problems with NAV.
Now I am formatting my desktop again and plan to run AVG Free. I wonder whether I will get my money back.
Tuesday, 1. August 2006
I will not buy this again. Cannot get the product key to work and after several weeks of emailing support about this, I have gotten no response. where is the class action suit on this product? I have paid for 1 year of service and right now have no protection since it has not been activated.
Friday, 11. August 2006
I just purchased the upgrade and now my computer won’t stay on long enough for me to figure out what happened. Please give me some advice, all of my company data is on that computer!
Friday, 11. August 2006
Well, your data is most likely in tact… It’s just figuring out what the heck Norton did do your computer to make it so that you can’t even access anything. Give me some more details, and I’ll see if I can help.
Sunday, 8. October 2006
We also purchased the 2-year subscription renewal online, and, as thanks, just spent $250 to have our computer completely rehauled. What a piece of junk! Would love to know where to check on class-action lawsuits against Semantec. Sign me up!
Sunday, 8. October 2006
Rebecca-
I wonder if we should just use this post as a place for others to sign a petition just be leaving a comment? Not that it would do much, but geez, I keep hearing more and more Norton horror stories both on and off line…
Monday, 25. December 2006
pls i was told to renew my norton internet subscription service key and i don’t know it and i ve not receiver any email for them just only given me sign of warning to renew my protection update subscription service.my problem now is just to type in my subscription key for the selected subscription service. however am in UK and am using HP pavilion dv4000 product which i bought this year 2006 and it has been protect since 2005.i ve only 4 day from now to update it can u give some help?
Thursday, 4. January 2007
Had my own experience back in 2003 when Norton AV “expired” and left a nasty little “program” on my computer that prevented browser windows from opening. Reformatting the hard drive was the only way to go. McAfee for me!
Monday, 8. January 2007
Hi My norton has nearly expired i have tried for days to renew my subscription but aol will not open whatever it is sending me. Please help can i renew by email?
Monday, 8. January 2007
You may need to renew by phone:
800-441-7234
Tuesday, 16. January 2007
Hi,
We had purchased Norton Antivirus 2006(1 year subscription in august, 2006). We uninstalled it to fix some problem and tried installing again and found that Antivirus CD is empty.
Is there any way to install Norton Antivirus online if we have a valid key?
Please respond.
Uma
Tuesday, 16. January 2007
Hi,
We had purchased Norton Antivirus 2006(1 year subscription in august, 2006). We uninstalled it to fix some problem and tried installing again and found that Antivirus CD is empty.
Is there any way to install Norton Antivirus online if we have a valid key?
Please respond.
Uma
Tuesday, 16. January 2007
Hi Uma,
There is no automatic way to download Norton AntiVirus with a valid product key from a CD version. Symantec may be able to send you a replacement CD or give you a link to download it once you verify with them.
Here’s their number:
800-441-7234
Tuesday, 20. February 2007
Hey. You don’t happen to have a product key for AntiVirus 2007, do you?
Thanks a lot
Wednesday, 21. February 2007
Ben,
I don’t have a product key for AntiVirus 2007. The only way to get a legal key is to buy the software.
Tuesday, 5. June 2007
Just got the shaft from Norton. Have a three user license, currently installed on 2 systems but cannot activate third because their database shows 8 installations! Their solution, after hours on the phone and in tech support chat: Buy More! I am so absolutely frustrated with them I am beside myself. Would love to see them hit by a class action. The upside, downloaded Kaspersky. Faster, less intrusive and better protection.