2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 Good utility - Can get it cheaper if you buy elsewhere, 2003-05-10
I am quite satisfied with this product. The best feature is the ability to eliminate all the advertisements, animation in webpages and popup windows. It discards the animated advertisements from webpages and make them clean and neat. You wont even know that some advertisement existed there. However, the page loading is slow when you first start internet explorer. Subsequent pages seem to load fine.The software does an effective job in blocking attacks on your computer. In conjunction with another free java software, you can actually locate the computer from where a attack is launched. The antivirus is very effective and check of virus realtime. The only complain I have is that the software does consumes some 30 to 35 MB of RAM. However, I am not sure if that has hampered the performance of my computer. Bottomline, good utility if you buy using lots of rebates. Value for money.
1 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
Don't surf without a strong firewall!, 2003-05-06
Yes, read the manual before installing or you will have problems. This firewall/antivirus/ad blocker package works as advertised...and quite well. Also, do not trust AOL's built-in firewall on its own. This Norton package stopped plenty of backdoor hack attempts and port scans while I was on AOL. The built-in WIN XP firewall also does not stop all attacks and probes. Norton caught and stopped plenty of activity that made it past both AOL and XP. The add blocking feature works surprisingly well. No pop-ups and very few banner ads make it through. In fact, it works so well that you may have to disable it on occasion to access the features of some transactional sites. I have noticed that sometimes the firewall will not resolve to an IP address...possibly due to cookie rejection or slow response. I found that by waiting for a page to fully load before clicking through and advancing solves some of this. Still a little annoying. Another added bonus is the built-in IP address tracing that allows you to graphically trace a suspected attacker. You can use the resulting contact information to email a complaint. I now run this Norton package without trouble on both Win98 and XP-Pro machines with a cable modem.
1 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
 Donot purchase this software, 2003-02-20
This was the biggest mistake I have made in purchasing software.
The software loaded with errors and worse of all I could not get back on line to get assistance etc. I ended up talking to Dell
to get rid of it. Would not even uninstall with the typical steps. I thank Dell for the help and nothing to Symantec.
10 of 13 customers found the following review helpful:
To " Reviewer: A software user from Ohio, USA ", 2003-01-14
U have to remove NIS 2001 first then install 2003. It would not over write it. Someone obviously did not read the manual.
8 of 13 customers found the following review helpful:
Made the mistake, 2002-12-29
I purchased NIS 2003 to replace an installed version of NIS 2001. Big mistake! Would not write over it. NO customer support the only respone I got was "strange error codes " go to the online help problem respone pages and see if those errors are listed. I should have went there first NUMEROUS complaints similar to mine, would not load and many users were dead in the water they could not get back online! Long and short of it yesterday I recieved a refund check...no questions asked! What does that tell you!
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