So my dad went and bought Norton Antivirus's SystemWorks Basic Edition, for like... 60 bucks... I was wondering if anybody else has it? and if they like it?.... I've been looking around and it looks like it would be pretty useful, but how well does it work. If he'd have paid more he could've had spyware protection and stuff. This one has like, One Button Checkup, System Restore, protects everything over the internet, emails, and checks up on the performance. It has a process viewer with the folder the process starts from, Disk optimizing, antivirus, and Norton Clean up... where it safely deletes things from your computer that you don't want permanantly so that you can't recover it, and does it so you can recover it if you do it a different way.

Just wondering if anybody else has this, their opinions on it... and if you think it's worth the money he paid for it.

AVG (scans files, downloads, email) > Norton
Spybot S&D (anti-spyware, shred files) > Norton
XP SP2 Firewall > Norton
XP System Restore > Norton
Process Viewer > Norton

I don't like Norton. I've seen it kill a PC.

i totaly agree with RaceProUK

That's what I figured actually... I don't like it either, but my dad doesn't know much of what he's doing... Bah... can't quite get our money back..

My dad actually thought he was just buying an antivirus software ... Not a bunch of stuff that looks at the PC

One thing I do think will be kinda usefull is the Safe Mode feature on it... Not sure exactly what it does... but it gets the computer into a safe mode like if I restarted windows I think?

Ah, not I completely agree with you... I was going to check it out... but since neither of my hard drives have 3 GB of space on it I can't.

WIndows Bootloader Safe Mode > Norton Safe Mode

F8

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Originally posted by UTI
One thing I do think will be kinda usefull is the Safe Mode feature on it... Not sure exactly what it does.

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Originally posted by kao
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any Norton software is like pulling a semi trailer with a 2 wheel drive car, Slow as hell

I very much so dislike Norton, although im testing Norton 2007 it doesnt look much better than the others, although it is Beta it seems slightly faster...but im sticking with AVG Free and Windows Defender for now Ive also used TrendMicro in the past also which is pretty good

NOD32... Since Norton started to slow down my comp (2003 or 2004) I tried several anti virus programs. NOD32 may not be very well known by the masses, but it's one of the fastest scanners you can get with using a minimum of system recourses. It also is very accurate, picking up more viruses than Norton, McAfee and AVG.

I'd suggest Bazooka by Kephyr. It's quite good, scans REALLY REALLY FAST! Although, cant find much, just a load of adware, some worms and a handful of trojans.

All the same, I use it on top of AVG Free, SpyBot S&D, Ad Aware, Windows Defender, MRT (XP Pro) and CWShredder.

Like the paranoid person I am

Bazooka is a anti-spyware/adware program .

i use Avira AntiVir and its pretty good... really fast and detects a lot of viruses... and the best: the AntiVir® PersonalEdition Classic is for free