Norton 360

[Darren Wheeler]

Until about 2 years ago I was a die-hard user of Symantec AV and Firewall software until it became too much of a resource hog and I jumped ship to Zone Alarm. Now, ZA has become a huge drain too, especially the live scanners (now turned off and AVG running).

So far all the reviews of Norton 360 seem to indicate it is much less of a hog than previous version. Has anyone got personal experience of it and how does it run?

Although I am getting a MacBook, I'll still have my XP desktop for some applications.

Thanks

I would still steer away from it. I use Kaspersky which after the initial training works great even on my reluctantly supplied with Vista notebook!

[Scrooge]

Norton 360 is a POS, shame really as I liked Norton products before.I use Kaspersky as well, with AVG running as well [:I]

[mitchja]

It does work much better and uses less resources on XP than it does on Vista (mind you doesn't everything )

I currently for a P4 2.4Ghz machine with 1.5Gb RAM which is not the fastest by any means.

Always been a Norton user here and 360 is less of a hog then previous versions of NIS (Norton Internet Security)

There are a couple of small things I dont like about 360 though:

1) Liveupate - no longer tells you exactly what it is it's updating (It just tells me it's 'downloading/installing updates' but I would like to know what it's updating.

2) Similar thing as above regarding threats, as I posted yesterday, again it only tells you it's blocked/deleted a threat but doesn't actually tell you what the threat is/was.

Regards