norton suites

are there any tests anybody knows comparing nis 2011 to nis 2012 for overall protection and system hit?

 

Not that I'm aware of. I ran 2011 for about a year and now am using 2012. There's no noticeable increase or decrease in system performance. Feature wise it's very similar to 2011 so I feel it's about refinement and tweaking. What I'm saying is anecdotal of course. Are you debating upgrading Vs staying with 2011?

 

When I upgraded from NIS 2011 to 2012, I observed the differences which were only done in GUI and nothing else improved or reduced. Maybe you should stick with the latest version 2012 because they might have fixed a few bugs and problems faced by users using 2011

 

upgraded sonar was a part of nis2012

 

They definitely made improvements in 2012, but the main reason for upgrading is NIS 2012 will continue to be improved while NIS 2011 will not. As a rule I would never keep an older version of a security product (I know, someone will probably come up with an exception, but generally this is true).

 

from experience:-never upgrade to latest version of Kaspersky till after a few critical fixes!

 

There are fixes already (a.b.c.d.e)

 

Good point! There's something to be said for not upgrading the same day a new product is released There are usually a few updates to smooth out issues that got past the beta test. NIS 2012 has already had a couple of significant updates.

 

NIS 2012 had some updates, all irrelevant, I still had several problems with it.

 

I tried it when it 1st was released and found 2011 faster and just better overall,wondered if updates had put right some of issues I had,mainly speed of other apps opening with it installed,and why by default does it use "smart definitions":-2011 never did and that didn't suffer slow boot like they suggest 2012 will not using them?

 

Agreed. Norton has had two builds since release, currently 19.1.1.3. It will probably take 1 more good update before some of the outstanding bugs are fixed. Nothing I have encountered is major though. Certainly not enough to stop me from using it or to make me go back to 2011.

 

when was latest build released?

 

9-20-2011. Minor updates though. http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-Internet-Security-Norton/MINOR-PRODUCT-UPDATE-19-1-1-3-for-Norton-Internet-Security-2012/td-p/541342

 

Do you mean two builds excluding the first released build or including the first released build?