Norton Antivirus 2009 and Norton Internet Securithy 2009 final versons released

Re: A Small Issue...

Works fine here

 

I upgraded from NIS 2008 to NIS 2009 and it's running fine.

But I'm a little confused.

During the time of Beta Symantec officials always mentioned, that NIS 2009 wouldn't make Norton Antibot redundant.

But NOW this seems to have changed?

http://www.symantec.com/norton/support/kb/web_view.jsp?wv_type=public_web&docurl=20080902104300EN

Would be nice if somebody with more knowledge could clear things up a little.

 

Check under setting computer scans. Make sure Remove files Automatically is set to off

 

Thanks for the screenshot. Wow, that is sure hard to believe it is a Norton product. Glad to hear of the improvements.

 

This is pretty nice indeed. I just have to get over not feeling secure when using a Norton product. I know it's all mental and I do like this program. A couple of things that I wish I was able to do:

1) At one point I managed to get it to show me a popup for programs connecting to the internet, I now seem to have disabled that somehow - how do I enable this again?

2) When I was able to get the popups for apps connecting to the internet, there was no option to create any advanced rule from the popup, only allow or block this instance.

I think that's it.

I'm seriously thinking about picking this up when the trial is done.

 

Norky,

Go into settings:

1. Click Internet Settings
2. Under Smart Firewall, Click Configure [+] next to Advanced Settings
3. Turn Automatic Program Control off
4. Turn Advanced Events Monitoring on
5. Click OK or Apply

This should do it but you will get quite a few more prompts because this causes NIS to behave more like a HIPS.

 

I must admit that I have not installed NIS2009 yet. But I don't think NIS2009 comes to the top AV all of a sudden, just because it's light and has pulse update. No, I don't think so. For a AV, being light is a big plus but not the most important thing. IMHO, best detection rate is the number 1 for an AV. I would wait and see how NIS2009 does in half a year or so before I go back to Norton.

 

In the recent AV-Test. it scored a 28/28 along with a few others. its not only light seems to have good detection. but we will see as time goes on what happens. but for now Norton is moving its once powerful fist in the right direction.

 

There now is a key text in your documents folder where they say the following (I deleted the key...):

Please print this page and keep it in a safe place.
You will need this key in the event that you need to reinstall
Norton Internet Security.

Product key: ----

To print this page, press Ctrl-P.

For future reference, you can find this product key in
C:\Users\Name\Documents\Symantec\Norton Internet Security_Key.txt

This feels to me as if the activation problem (if any) is a case of the past.

 

I installed NIS and Antibot on my PC without a problem. A bit of extra security is not bad is it? On another PC I had complaints when trying to install. But that was because there were left overs from EndPoint protection on that machine. Once removed NIS installed. Even with Antibot installed already on that one.

 

You won't believe it but it is PcMag's Editor choice
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2330018,00.asp?kc=PCRSS02129TX1K0000530

 

Extra security is extra security...
But the link says that the detection of NIS 2009 is superior.

 

Whats so surprising ??
The PCMag EC has been allotted to Norton for 5 years starting from 2005 ....
And after Symantec bought PC Tools (a.k.a) SpywareDoctor, they have been given a automatic renewal for another 5 years ..

 

Lol yeah I know

Quote from Runbenking:

Another curious thing how it gave such a small importance to secondary features in Norton while a very big one in other suites. If you look at the end of the review you see that the AntiSpam gets only a 1/5 rating and the Parental Control a 2/5 rating. If Any other suite had taken that rating it wouldn't have got more than 3 stars.

 

I used KIS too, Empetc. But I don't find this PCMag decision strange for this new version. NIS deserves it. Try it out yourself!

 

Hi,

No discount for beta tester for this new version ?

 

I did install Antibot for the sake of the possibility (or fact) that SONAR doesn't work in Vista 64. That makes a difference, doesn't it?

 

Yes I tried it on a computer yesterday. Very very light indeed. But I still have to see how it does in the real life(where all the previous versions miserably failed). I installed it on a computer of a friend who passess all the day downloading music, pictures, and software from p2p programs, he's using Internet Explorer 6, never running windows update(he has turned it off), and downloading a lot of dangeorus stuff. Is there a better way to test a security program?

 

OK, that's true. But I still think it's not really transparent, why Symantec now sells NIS 2009 without additional Antibot license.

Just thinking.
If "somebody" now would buy a license for NIS 2008 including Antibot, could it be used for NIS 2009? Probably not?

 

Up until now all licenses of Symantec work on the newer versions too, so I guess the answer to your bit of thinking is yes.

 

I use it in real life of course too. And I do download a lot now to see how NIS is doing So far: excellent!

 

Wow that's cool.
Stores in Germany are right now cleaning their shelves and selling the old version very fair priced. I'll give it a try, as the price would even be OK for Antibot alone...

 

I just installed it, and I've got to say, I LOVE it. Maybe I can find a cheap NIS 08 somewhere.

 

if find than share with us too.