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Norton Internet Security Suite 2008 is designed to keep your PC healthy. Norton Internet Security Suite 2008 scans your PC for potential pathogens, points them out, and helps eliminate them. Norton Identity Safe keeps your personal information and identity safe when you buy, bank and browse online.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Norton Internet Security 2008 requires Microsoft .Net 3.0 framework runtime, which they don't mention in their documentation, and don't do automatically (at least for me). Seaching through their Tech Support database finally showed that this error really means, 'please install .Net 3.0'."
"My other comment is that if you have a previous Norton subscription, don't install your new product until the very last day, because they'll never give you even a day's credit for your previous subscription, even though they start nagging you to renew at least a month in advance."
"Used too much memory after a while, clogged down my WinXP."
"Worked great."
"The first virus I acquired I couldn't. and Norton's customer service gave me. the run around."
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Find Best Price at AmazonZoneAlarm Pro delivers powerful, multi-layered security to your PC with an advanced firewall, anti-spyware, Spy-Site Blocking, identity theft protection, privacy protection, and much more! Network and Program Firewall Features These features deliver proactive firewall protection with multiple layers of security that stop inbound, outbound, and program attacks while remaining completely invisible to hackers. It also prevents spyware and other malicious programs from sending your personal information across the Internet, automatically makes your computer invisible to anyone on the Internet, protects your programs from malware, and more. Monitor program installation, registry changes and file access down to your PC's core.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Takes a little effort to get all the permissions set up but it has definitely stopped several excursions by unwanted others into my laptop."
"Don't go on the internet without using this product, and with the privacy filter, you are protected."
"Periodically, I still have problems with ZA denying me internet access unless I reboot my computer."
"I have installed Zone Alarm on two computers, both new and my experience has been excellent."
"I have a great system, Pentium D 940, 3.2 Ghz,4 Gb RAM, so even though that I knew the software was a "memory hog" I expected it would work okay, but I'm going to stick with Norton Antivirus, Spy Sweeper and Spyware Doctor to protect my PC."
"The first time you start ZoneAlarm after you install it, it phones home by opening up a web page with all sorts of tracking and profiling information about you and your computer. There is a persistent but lasting back two versions where it thinks every program is trying to access the dns port of random servers."
"While it blocks "unauthorized" programs access Internet DIRECTLY, it DOESN'T block those programs call "authorized" programs such as "Internet Explorer","Firefox" to access outside."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Worth the buy, especially if you're looking to travel a lot and use unsecure hotel wi-fi connections for Internet access.User-friendly but it's a challenge to navigate through for the first-time user.However, if you seek help from the PIA website, you get a prompt reply and resolution to most problems.I would recommend this great VPN to others."
"Pros: -Provides privacy as expected, especially when away from home. Cons: -Expected delay can be reduced by not rerouting too far from home. -Sites that require confirmation by device will need to resubmit each login."
"Having had a bad experience with a hotel wireless connection in Europe that was supposedly secure, we decided we would not hook up to any Internet without a virtual internet network connection."
"Best protection online that your money can buy."
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"Easy install, As described."
"After 17 days and it does not work."
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Patented, US-made, military-grade keystroke encryption for PC or Mac.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Installed easily."
"Works well on my windows 10 to protect from keyloggers that anti virus often miss."
"Guarded ID is a must for protection against key logging., anti virus is out dated, excellent product, easy to install."
"For whatever reason, Firefox disallows that view on their web page, so what you'll notice is the Guardedid logo on your taskbar at the bottom right of your pc will blink on every keystroke."
"There are now often times where viruses are able to be snuck past your antivirus software hidden within applications or they're so new your antivirus just hasn't been updated to detect it. GuardedID prevents your information from being stolen when stuff gets past your antivirus. If you do any kind of banking, bill paying, or shopping online, you NEED GuardedID as well as a good antivirus program."
"CONS: -For whatever reason, with Windows 10 64bit Professional sometimes when I type the input is misinterpreted (i.e. -Cannot let this software run while gaming as in first-person shooters (for example) my character will just keep walking and walking without any input from me. A highly recommended purchase and arguably the best purchase towards anyone's rights and freedom on the Internet and electronics (I own their software for smartphones as well - also highly recommended)."
"I called customer support who were able to walk me through the installation/setup process on my PC and mobile phone within 10 minutes!!!!"
"when i did the install it says "invalid license activation key"."
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* Symantecs Norton Internet Security 2004 provides essential protection from viruses, hackers, and privacy threats. Now it also alerts you to certain non-virus threats such as spyware programs and keystroke loggers that can capture confidential data and leave your computer more vulnerable. Provides essential protection from viruses, hackers, and privacy threats.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I installed NIS 2004 on the 19th of April and immediately experienced a drastic slow down in boot up speed and program access and I am using XP Home Edition on a 2.66ghz Intel chip with 512mb of memory.On the 27th of April NIS stopped working in that I could not access it from the icon on the taskbar and after rebooting a few times the antivirus icon disabelled itself and no matter what I tried I could not get it to enable.My computer became very sluggish as whenever I clicked on the icon the computer stopped responding and I had to reboot."
"I bought Norton Internet Security years ago, This product is absolutely not ready for release."
"I previously had Nortons System Works and Norton Firewall."
"Did not work on my computer."
"I bought and installed Norton Internet Security 2004 version 7.0.3.8 on a PC with Windows 98 Operating System. It took hours to download, install, reboot, activate, register, update, perform pre-install scans, perform recommended scans of the whole drive, and other steps I probably forgot. Called the number, went throught a long series of menus, at the end of which was silence. After a google search, I found this Amazon review space. When you install the parental controls feature, they tell you they recommend a default setting of a child's account so that when the machine boots up, the child account will be the initial one. The software is badly designed, not supported, and will cost you a lot if you install it in terms of lost time, frustration, the cost of tech support to get rid of it, and damage to your system."
"I followed the instructions about running LiveUpdate to fix the bugs in the software (15 bugs), and still didn't work so I sent the product back and got my money back."
Best LAN
Manage Your Entire Network from One Screen. The Network Map discovers new devices on your network, displays their connectivity status, and provides detailed information like IP and Mac addresses, for all components on your network. Protect Your Network from Intruders--At Home and Away. Keep intruders off your home network and help protect your laptop when you use a public network, including wireless hotspots. Easily Share Files and Printers Across Your Home Network. Network Magics SmartShare technology lets you experience file and printer sharing the way it should be--quick, painless, and intuitive. Exclusive Advanced Features for Power Networkers. Network Magics Dynamic File Directory Service automatically creates a central directory of all shared files on your network and dynamically updates it when new folders are shared. Automatic printer sharing One-click file sharing Network map Network activity log One-click network repair Home network remote access--Net2Go Wireless intruder detection WIFI hotspot protection Dynamic file directory service SmartTrust service Instant device discovery Compatible with all major routers*. Automatic printer sharing; instant device discovery; WIFI hotspot protection.
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"So I broke out the Dell laptop, installed the software, turned on the internal WiFi for the laptop. I broke out the older Dell W2K laptop with a PCMCIA wireless card (the card is a new D-Link DWL-G650M Wireless 108G MIMO CardBus Adapter that goes with the router). I have read several times where people had difficulties setting up their new router and software. My router and one wireless card is all new along with the Network Magic software."
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"This software is outdated at lease 5 years and cost me $10.00 this to sent back this outdated software and not made anymore and you can download a free version ver."
"I purchased this to make it easier to make a wireless home network between my old compaq desktop, my old HP laptop and my new compaq laptop."
"Printer sharing never worked well, the status of computers is sometimes inacurate, and Net2Go? Even when I got it working, it required a fair bit of configuration, so unless you know what "UPnP" and "Port Forwarding" are or how to open a port on your software firewall (I suspect many of the people who buy this product aren't highly tech savy) then this product is one to pass up."
Best Server Software
OEM Server License and Media; Server 2012 Standard requires CALS, which are not included with this product.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"This is what one would expect from Microsoft."
"When you have to have it,, you might as well buy it."
"Works well in our computer set up, our tech told us what to order and it arrived just in time."
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