Symantec Norton SystemWorks 2006

My HP pavilion a1200y was new in May 2006 and came with Norton SystemWorks 2006 trial version. It seemed to work well so I bought the Norton Internet Security 2006. It has been one horrible experience after another. I stopped using NIS with over a year to go in my 2 year subscription. It was so difficult to uninstall that I never got around to uninstalling the Norton SystemWorks 2006 (customer support had told me that I should have uninstalled the trial version before installing NIS 2006, but advised that since the system seemed to be working, it was okay). Meanwhile, my system took several minutes to become operational after a warm boot. System ...  Read the complete review

I was notified via email that my 2006 versionof the program was never properly activated SIX MONTHS after purchase and installation! Because of this, I was informed that I could update to the new 2007 version for free. It has caused nothing but havoc with my system, countless hours on the phone with useless information. Instructions are seemingly unrelated to any of the prompts that appear. My computer freezes constantly and all my passwords, id's, etc, disappeared. This program is a disaster! I have printed countless copies of "how to .." but the steps make no sense because the even the name of the products do not ...  Read the complete review

I installed Norton Systemworks 2006, I enabled the feature GoBack, and the computer promptly crashed and burned. I couldn't even get it started again. I brought the computer to a repair place, but they weren't able to rescue my data. It seems ironic that a product which is supposed to help keep your computer run smoothly should wreak such havoc. Nothing I've encountered before, no virus, no worm, no malevolent hacker, has ever caused me such severe damage. A quick search on the internet shows that this is a rather common problem with the program. I'm in awe of Symantec's business savvy. Every virus writer tries to harm your computer, but Symantec manages to charge you ...  Read the complete review

I had the previous Norton Systemworks 2005 Premier Edt and was impressed by how quick and efficient it was. Like all antivirus/utilities software programs they always use quite a lot of system resources but the 2005 edition was not too bad in terms of this. But... I recently bought and installed Norton Systemworks 2006 Premier Edition. I installed it on my new AMD 64 X2 4800+ (Dual Core) computer. This computer used to boot and load windows within 20 secs and it used to shutdown completly within 10 secs prior to installation of Norton Systemworks 2006. After installing Systemworks 2006 my computer has been very slow. Despite this being a top of the ...  Read the complete review