The Symantec/Norton Thread.

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Totally agree, this is one of the reasons I stick to NOD32, simple, effective, no bloat

 

Strange, i don't see any toolbars (using Opera and Edge)?! That Optimizer thing is there, but hey, turn it off and you are fine.

 

For those worried about the Disk Optimization in Norton, Norton only uses Windows built in tool and does not 'defrag' a SSD on machines running W8 on.

https://support.norton.com/sp/en/au/home/current/solutions/v95982396_EndUserProfile_en_us

Bottom line, on newer OSs Norton will not hurt your SSD.

 

I wasn't worried anyway, but thanks to let us know.

 

I'm thinking about opting into this... Does anyone know if this is on a per machine basis or does opting in put all of my machines into this program?

 

You only opt the machine/s you want to use the program.

I've had three goes, most recently last night my time. My experience hasn't been great. Last night I ran Live Update before I went to bed and checked this morning and the EAP version hadn't received any updates all night. I manually ran Live Update and a bunch came down. I've restore an image backup back to the production release.

 

still, no auto-updates

 

Good to know. Thanks. I guess I won't bother.

 

Yep, still no auto-updates. You aren't using the EAP versions now are you?

 

Keep getting a mailerror now and then. Error 421: server is busy.



Norton Security v22.8.1.14

 

New EAP Build 22.9.0.61 (EAP-3) is now Available! (January 30, 2017)

 

If you are on Windows 10 I'd pass!

https://community.norton.com/en/forums/eap-3-229061-not-compatible-windows-10

 

Thanks for the info. Every time I think I want to give Norton another go something happens.

 

22.9.0.68 available from Live Update. I ran Live Update after restarting and received another update too.

No Release Notes yet.

As per normal, these updates are often phased released so you may not get it straight away.

It looks like it shares the same features at the EAP version. My guess is that because the EAP testing board is basically dormant the Norton management probably decided they needed more testers.

 

https://community.norton.com/en/blo...ments/norton-229-product-update-available-now

 

Pulled off my KIS 2018 RC and installed this. RS2 support and native 64 bit both seemed like a win. Seems to be running pretty well. We'll see how long I feel that way.

 

Buggy bloody software!

I left my machine on all night like the EAP version Norton stopped automatically updating - no updates received for 12 hours. Manually running Live Update downloaded 6 updates.

On the other machine running Norton after a restart Norton failed to start at all.

I experienced both of these bugs using the EAP version and that is why I stopped. Looks like I'll stop using Norton all together now.

 

Mine seems to be updating but when I clicked the link on the UI where it says "Protection Updates: Current" the whole program crashed and restarted. Not good. I don't think there is a security suite I don't hate right now.

 

Me too, I don't like any security suite,
but I don't install any, and then the next, the next, and so on...

You better start from scratch, with a fresh install of your OS.

Then make a layered security, and you will be fine.

Have a look at my signature.
All machines are running, without any issue.

 

After spending about 20 mins configuring all my exclusions and firewall settings, I was disappointed to find out that you cannot save all those configurations so you can reload them upon reinstallation. I got a refund right away.

@anon

 

Between the crashing and the LifeLock popups and the other nagging from the thing I just got annoyed and uninstalled it. I know you can click on the the do not show this again option but later it is another for something else. Just the fact that it crashes is enough for it to go.

 

Endpoint version has no problems at all. The only issue I had was regarding update settings. It chose IE settings and after I set to no proxy, I never encountered any issue.

Also, EP version has no addon etc. I could not ask for more.

I think that Symantec should clean its EP interface. It looks too outdated. Not a major issue but a suggestion.

 

I'm sure it is more stable than the consumer version but it is another license to buy. I already have licenses for 3 different suites.

 

No version of Norton I've used has ever had that feature.