Product Description
Give your computer essential protection from viruses, hackers, and privacy threats. Powerful yet easy to use, this award-winning suite now includes advanced spam-fighting software to filter unwanted mail out of your inbox. Includes: AntiVirus, Personal Firewall, Privacy Control, AntiSpam & Parental Control.

• Average Customer Review: Based on 122 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: 17

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

Unacceptable slowing of system performance, May 5, 2023
My Father installed this on his 1.7 GHz Pentium with 128 MB of DRAM (admittedly not enough RAM)) and his PC, which used to respond quickly and perform fine, is dog slow. Using his PC is now an incredibly frustrating experience. I recommend uninstalling and using standard virus software and/or another manufacturer's firewall.

Products like these are products that can trash a reputation, and deservedly so.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

Why I deleted NIS 2004, May 3, 2023
Most of the features of NIS are now available elsewhere for free, so Norton/Symantec may have little financial incentive to fix or upgrade this product. Windows XP has a perfectly good firewall. Windows also offers a free beta antivirus program. Other Microsoft-approved vendors offer antivirus programs for free for up to a year. Free ad blockers are everywhere. SpyBot and AdAware are free. The only features you can't get for free are parental control and the related privacy protection.

My Dell computer with 512Mb RAM and bundled with NIS 2004 was slow to boot and slow to load IE, and seemed to require constant tinkering. And the free SpyBot and AdAware programs were constantly locating files and cookies which got past NIS. I stuck with it because I liked an earlier version of NIS on my old computer. Finally, I had had enough, and deleted NIS 2004. Then I turned on the Windows firewall and downloaded an antivirus program. Now I love my computer again: quick to boot, quick to load IE, no problems.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Internet Security means while your are online?, May 3, 2023
OK I read all the bad reviews and avoided this product until I tried to renew my subscribtion to McAfee which could do nothing but try to sign me up for 90 dollars worth of stuff I didn't want while refusing to sign me up for what I did want. So I went to Norton and download the trialware and perhaps my big mistake was to download the antivirus trialware instead of the IS verson. The anti-virus worked fine so I decided to go with the IS 2005. The first thing it did when I downloaded it was wipe out all of my proxy settings which disconnected me from the internet. After about 8 hours of tech support with my ISP we finally realized that the disable function of the IS software wouldn't function. So I had to get on the phone with Symantec to deal with that issue which resulted in dumping the software until I could get back online. Once my DSL connection was again functional which involved resetting the modem after a long process of resetting my proxy settings manually failed I contacted Symantec again to re-download the program. The tech asistant was ready to abandon me before the download was complete and I made him STAY on the line to wait for the process to do what it did before - which was to wipe out my modem settings which it did for him most cooperatively. After deleting several files manually the tech assitant said that the problem was way out of the scope of himself or the supervisor and that they had to do some research to get back with me. I was promised to hear from him the next day. There was no return call. In the meantime I reset my modem and reconnected myself to my DSL line and managed to run live update with IS turned off. This did not correct the problem. As it stands I have to turn IS off to get an internet connection which rather defeats the purpose? Isn't this the sort of bug you make sure doesn't happen when you market and INTERNET SECURITY program via a process that every programmer knows as debugging? OK, so while I was working with my computer over the weekend the program decied to unsuscribe itself and change my proxy settings again. Are we having fun yet? Once resetting my modem and shutting down and restarting my modem and reinstating my DSL connection I had to re-run the registration process. Presently it appears that the anti-virus software runs while I am online after I turn the IS off, which also turns, irretreivably, my firewall off - a program and subscription that I paid additional $$$$$$$ for a month or so ago. I tried to email tech support at symantec today but when I submitted my question the website refused to accept that I had picked the option connectivity and so I had to select an unrelated problem to get the website to submit the question. You know some of the complaints were that this program had a lot of bugs, but this is beyond being totally and utterly unprofessional, THIS is totally unreasonable.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

disable norton to go online, May 1, 2023
I bought norton 2005 in March and I have had nothing but trouble with this product. To use my IE web browser I have to shut off my Norton Security. To get Norton's updates,I have shut off the Norton Security. I did not have to do this with Norton 2004. Norton claims I have a compatibility problem with AOL.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

No problems at all, Apr 26, 2023
After reading all of the negative reviews on Amazon, I was a little leery of installing NIS '05. I've always used Norton at home and at work, and have never had a problem with any of their products in the past, so I decided to give it a shot.

I'm glad I did--installation was painless, and there are added features--i.e. Antispam--over the NIS '04 I was previously running. I've had no problems surfing the web since. I'm not sure why the other reviewers are having such problems with the software (operator error?), but my experience with it has been first rate.

I gave it four stars because the installation options are limited--a user can only choose between a full install, or an install minus Parental Control. I would have preferred an option to choose the features I needed. Other than that minor misgiving, I would highly recommend NIS '05 as a worthy upgrade over NIS '04.

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