Yeah, check IE for any left over BHO's. The Symantec uninstaller doesn't seem to remove everything. I often wish I'd never downloaded Norton onto my notebook, it's almost like a virus in itself.
The only thing Norton I'd use is NortonDNS. I trust their protection, but I don't trust their software coders to not suck. This way I can get the protection without anything touching my PC. So, do I or don't I like Norton products? No idea.
after not using norton for many years i gave nis 2011 a try and was pleasantly surprised....i've recently updated it to nis 2012.....as far as the cost, i got a three user license from newegg for $40 and received a $40 rebate card....can't beat the price and my system runs fine
See this ( or this - for Norton 2012 ). The Norton Removal Tool is very easy to use and pretty effective.
But the same can be said for almost any vendor. In my country, even if we consider boxed copies which often come very cheap due to festival sales and the like, it's a hard sell for me when a Kaspersky or AVG box is sitting at the next row and offers 3 licenses for almost the same price as Norton for 1 user, however low that price is. Norton, it seems, sells by its name. Their strategy for the cost problem is simply to market PC Tools as their low cost value brand. PC Tools, however, at this stage lacks a little compared to the competition in terms of protection (however, the pricing is quite reasonable in my country).
Different countries , different pricing schemes as I can get a 3 user Norton licence for the same price or less than the two vendors you cited as examples.
NO! Too many bad memories and old wounds from years ago with symantec to say anything good. BUT their products are okay and have improved since my past experiences.
No because I got cracked and Norton just stood by & watched it happen. I scanned the file with the payload in it when I downloaded it & Norton said it found nothing. Just my personal experience, but NOTHING will convince me to use Norton again.
British Telecom removed Norton & replaced it with *McAfee for me as I downloaded the new AV. I also ran the Norton removal tool just to make sure. Both BT & the removal tool missed the BHO. *Which I later replaced with MSE because it was just too bloaty on my notebook, although in its defence, McAfee was never the trouble that Norton was.
I was talking about a personal experience, so I would have to answer your question with no. In a more broad sense I'm sure every AV let someone down somewhere. Norton is the only one that has let me down personally. It's simple- I downloaded a file with a payload, Norton scanned it for viruses, and Norton didn't see the malware. It was dumb to download the file, I'll own that. However, an AV breach is kind of like a cheating boyfriend. He cheats once and it's hard to ever trust him again regardless of any extenuating cirumstances.
I voted yes because Symantec bought PGP; I am a long time PGP user. Also use Comodo email certs. I do not and will not use any other Symantec product.