Man, what a disaster that was.
Spent hours and 3 reboots to get it loaded, then it has “features” they don’t tell you about.
Like this “Protection Center” window that keeps popping up in the lower right, and covers about 1/4 of your screen, and all it wants you to do is run a scan, update…you have to “click” it off every time to continue (no minimizing), pain in the tailfeathers.
Then, they want to add a web browser toolbar.
Not on MY computer, they don’t!
Then, someone asks a question, you do a google looking for info, it decides it doesn’t like the looks of the server, does this full-screen “scan”, and then dumps ALL your browser windows!
The “support” folks, while pleasant enough, do not have English as their primary language, and simply read from their menu script.
I loaded it at 2 PM yesterday, disabled in in my startup at 2330 last night, requested a refund and un-installed it at noon today.
But wait!
You have to sign a Proof of Destruction letter to get a refund!
So, once it’s fully un-installed, and you check Program Files, it isn’t.
So, you fix that.
Then, you check the Registry.
Oooops!
Still there, too!
So, you fix that!
Then you do a “search” for “Norton”, and lordhavemercy, there are a dozen more instances THERE!
Crimeny, it took 90 minutes to unload the damn thing!
They kept telling me to un-load and un-install AdAware, AdWatch, Privacy Guardian, SpyBot, all the stuff I KNOW works, and “trust them”.
Not this Curmudgeon!
So, what do you guys use?
I’ve heard good things about Panda.
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