Norton AntiVirus 2005 [OLD VERSION]
![Norton AntiVirus 2005 [OLD VERSION]](/Images/B0002UCJV6/medium.jpg) | Average Customer Rating: Recommend Protects your email, instant messages, and other files by automatically removing viruses, worms, and Trojan horses. New Norton Internet Worm Protection blocks certain more sophisticated worms before they enter your computer!… Product details and pricing info |
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200 Customer Reviews Posted
- Don't Know What The Fuss is About
- Haven't had any problems with this program. My machine is powerful. I use XP service pack 2. So far, it's unobtrusive. And it works. I suspect lots of people having problems are either using inferior machines, or don't know what they're doing (anti-virus is only as smart as the end-user).
Highly recommend this program. - 2007-08-25, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- installer is bloated and slow, but it works well enough once installed and configured
- I downloaded this from Norton to upgrade the old 2001 version I had on my old Dell Win2k system with 512 MB RAM. Actually I downloaded the 2005 subscription by mistake (not the product) so I called Norton/Symantec and they gave me a free download of the product with a 1 year update subscription even though it costs more than what I paid for the subscription. They didn't even bill me the difference, though I offered to pay it. It took a while to sort out on the phone but the net result was good service.
The installer was so slow and bloated, had to download itself using Norton's own download manager, so it was about 4x slower than if it let me download it on my own. After installing it downloaded another 30 MB of updates. Several reboots later it was running but it disabled USB card reader. At this point I was ready to uninstall this bloatware and throw it out the window.
But I persisted. I drilled into all the various dialogs to configure it. Then my USB card reader started working again. Then used it to scan my machine. It found and removed several threats. Usually I turn off all active scans because they usually kill performance. But for this particular threat I had to turn them on. To my surprise, they did not kill performance or cause any problems, yet they did find and block an IE worm.
One thing I don't like is that when it finds adware it doesn't remove it automatically nor does it have a button to let you easily remove it. It tells you where the offending files are then you have to pull up the quarantine window and navigate to them manually to quarantine the files. It does the job but makes it a little harder than it needs to be.
Also when it detects and blocks worms or scripts, it doesn't follow the trail backward to find the offending process and purge it of viruses. Running a scan afterwards doesn't always find a virus even if you know there *must* be one in there (due to the worm activity it detected). They could make the product more powerful by tracing the worm's TCP port back to the process, scanning that process and all its DLLS, etc.
I've had no problems with liveupdate - it works fine.
Overall this was a useful upgrade for me and it works well despite the installation difficulties. Minus one star for the bloated installer, minus one star for the above issues so I give it 3 stars. - 2007-06-22, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Very pleased
- I am running Norton Anti virus 2005 and I have had no problems at all. I have 3 friends running the same with absolutely no problems. Everyone I know who has had problems are on dial up connections. That seems to be the problem. My computer is free from viruses and spyware. I have checked it with several free programs and they found nothing.
- 2006-08-10, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- purchase with caution!
- I had this installed on my pc and all was well until a pop up message told me that an attack had been made on my pc. All it told me was that it was a trojan and nothing else, such as the name. I contacted their support only to be told that they wanted even more money for them to put me through to someone that would help me remove the virus if I still had it on the system!
I then said that I was not happy about this so then they told me that I could do it myself by going to a link they gave me and searching for the name of the virus.
I explained to them, yet again that the report did not give me a name of the virus. Guess what the anwser was - yes that's right they asked for a payment again to tell me if I had got a virus or not and how to remove it if I had!
Asking them what was the point in buying their product in the first place was I had the anwser that when you subcribe to them you only buy the product and 12 months worth of virus definitions, but if you wanted to remove a virus then that was a different department and help removing a virus would require a payment!!!!!!
I removed their product after they failed to help.
I was totally unimpressed with their service to say the least. Thank you Norton for nothing "have a nice day!" - 2006-06-24, 5 of 5 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- NOTHING BUT PROBLEMS!
- I'm very grateful that I read these reader reviews before I renewed my Norton 2005 Antivirus. I do have ME & I thought all my problems were just ME. Then I read that it's the combo of Norton & ME! ALL the problems people were describing, were mine also (Systems freezes, failed shutdowns, error pop ups, run out of RAM frequently, even though I installed more) For months, I couldn't run Live UpDate, I couln't run scan disk or defrag. I'm afraid I spent most of the year trying to fix my computer! I SO identified with those who said that Norton IS the Virus! I had trouble deleting it too, but SECURITY SHIELD gave good tips for that.(After ADD/Remove, go to MyComputer-CDrive-ProgramFiles-Common Files, delete Norton/Symantec & if needed, rename file & drag it to desktop Recycle Bin & Empty that. It worked! So far PCSecurity Shield(ViRobot)is working just fine for me.
- 2006-04-04, 6 of 6 people found this review helpful, Rated:
