The Symantec/Norton Thread.

I think it is included with the premium version still. I actually ran a trial of the premium and it was ok; it's just so difficult to trial. I had a Norton subscription for a couple of months 10 years ago and because I had that attached to my email I couldn't use that email address again. I had to create a temporary one, then if I wanted to buy it I would have to go back to my real one. Maybe not a big deal but the principle was dumb.

 

I don't think so, in fact I'm almost certain.

Norton Family Free Version - End Of Life

Anyway, feel free to browse their forum about potential issues you may run into.

https://community.norton.com/en/forums/norton-family

 

Norton family is included with Norton premium, or at least the subscription is included when you by Norton Premium. I downloaded the trial and could access it. It's kinda standalone but I can confirm. I agree the freemium is discontinued but if you buy premium you get access to Family, backup, and some other stuff. I really want to like Norton but they make it difficult. Although they do employ most of India so kudos for that

 

Announcing Norton 22.16.3.21 update for Windows

 

I have a subcription to Life Lock and got free Norton security as part of it. It is called Norton Security Online. What is this version? Is it different from other versions of Norton?

 

I've only heard about that version being offered free by a certain ISP in USA, in this case, Comcast. I haven't heard about a retail version but I'll try and find out what I can.

 

@jjc225 ,

Could you let us know your location and which ISP you use?

Here's some information I received regarding NSO from another Norton Community Forum Guru, yank:

I hope that helps.

 

Thanks Krusty. There is also apparently a Norton Security Online Premium version, but have not been able to find out much about it. Also, I was running NSO on one of my computers for a few days, but got a notice from the program saying that a patch needed to be installed on an update. I said yes, and then it ran for about 20 minutes and got a notice that the patch did not work and it had to be unwound. That took another 20 minutes. That was enough for me, and uninstalled.

 

Be sure you run the Norton Removal Tool (NRnR) then to ensure your machine is ready to accept your new AV of choice without interference from Norton.

www.norton.com/nrt

 

I did, and after removing it I get a message from Norton that the version sent to me by LifeLock was old and not compatible with Windows 10 and to please reinstall with the new link they sent. I guess LifeLock and other companies offering NSO need to make sure they have the latest version to offer to customers.

 

Norton deluxe 5 devices 15 months only 14.99 in Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Norton-Security-Deluxe-Exclusive-Download/dp/B01MF5MTWP

 

I could be wrong but I thought I heard the subscription begins at the time of purchase. It would be worth checking anyway.

 

This does not give me any confidence in buying that license.

Comment from a user:

If something is too good to be true, it probably is! 60 USD discount!? Yeah right

 

This is direct from Amazon Digital Services. I have bought this before. No issues and it does not start until you activate it. I didn't activate mine until 6 months after I bought it. They just put the key in your Amazon software library.

 

person is complaining about renewal with this key, and support being idiots as usual.

 

The price of Amazon has already risen to 29.99 is still cheaper than on the official website of Norton. I never buy from Amazon and I can not give my opinion about it.

 

same key for the same price is sold on g2a already.

 

If you are already using Norton, you can activate the key without losing any subscription time.

Say you have 60 days left. Do the Norton chat thing. They will have you add the activation key to your Norton account, and then they will merge the old activation remaining days with the new activation days. After the merge, all the days/months left on old key and new key will be there. Don't have to do anything to other computers using the same license.

 

Correct, but I like to wait as I may decide to use another product in between and don't want to burn up the days for something I don't intend to use at the moment.

 

Norton LifeLock develops new app to help consumers begin to take control of their online privacy

https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2019/01/29/norton-privacy-manager/

 

Symantec Boosts Endpoint Security With Improved Detection

https://www.eweek.com/security/symantec-boosts-endpoint-security-with-improved-detection

 

So how is Norton now in terms of performance? I mean, is it light on the system?

 

I haven't used it for a year or so. But based on past experience, it is very light. It's not as good as Panda or ESET, for example, but not too far behind and is lighter than most antiviruses.

 

I can only compare it to Avast, KFA and WD, but it is lighter than all on my lowest specc'ed machine.

 

Thanks guys