Norton Systemworks / Personal Firewall 2006 Bundle

List Price: $89.99 Discount Price: $18.75

Features:

• Norton SystemWorks 2006 plus Norton Personal Firewall 2006
• Multi-purpose solution keeps computer healthy and personal info safe
• Antivirus protection guards computer from viruses and spyware
• Firewall prevents confidential info from being sent without permission
• Defense against hackers; up-to-date protection against new threats

Customer Reviews:

Ripoff--Disable ware [Posted on 2006-09-01]
Don't buy software you pay good money for only to have it disabled! If I had known this was going to be disabled prematurely, I would have never had bought it.

After getting an error message that the subscription was invalid, I call support and was told the software subscription was up despite the fact that I still 4+ months left on the subscription renewal.

All I asked for for was the entire year subscription I purchased 11/7/2005 and am able to use the product (System Works 2004) until that time. I think that's reasonable, legitimate and legal as there was no agreement that I would have purchased another product to have the registration time applied to the product.

While the software I bought was SystemWorks, I don't think the draconian software policy would differ across products.

Now the product is disabled and EVERY service is disabled as well. That means, no virus scan, no disk doctor--nothing.

After using Norton products for over 15 years, NEVER AGAIN! [Posted on 2006-11-24]
I have used various Norton products since the days of MS DOS 3.0. I have faithfully recommended them to family and friends. Now I have egg on my face. The latest iteration of Norton System Works has disabled three older (Pentium 3 class) computers and made them unbootable. It nearly took down my one year old Centrino laptop but I was able to recover it and remove the Symantec trash. When the virus protection software is worse than the viruses out there, why bother?
AVOID THIS PROGRAM AT ALL COSTS. IT WILL DAMAGE YOUR WINDOWS OS!

Goodbye, SystemWorks. [Posted on 2007-02-06]
I have uninstalled SystemWorks 2006 and will not be going back to Symantec products. I had three problems:

1. On initial install of SystemWorks in January 2006, the "GoBack" module wiped my hard drive. This was annoying and not easy to fix.

2. I reinstalled (and had to reregister) without the GoBack module and used the software for several months satisfactorily. A few annoyances: CleanUp consistently (every night) deleted cookies and autofills I wanted to keep, so despite my entering them as exceptions in the options table, they kept disappearing.

3. I wanted to move to a faster hard drive. After following the Norton Ghost directions explicitly (and getting a "successful" message, the cloned drive would not boot up. I therefore went back to my old drive. SystemWorks required me to reinstall (and reregister). In December, after renewing my SystemWorks subscription for $49.95, I successfully cloned the disk (using EZ Gig II). Again, the only software that did not work on boot up was SystemWorks. I called customer support and was told that the server would not allow me to install on more than 3 computers. I explained the circumstances but was told "there was nothing to be done," and that I would have to buy the software again. I chose not to.

I have completely uninstalled the entire program and am now enjoying faster performance from the operating system and quicker boot times from Word, Photoshop, etc. The protections I was getting from SystemWorks are being covered by AVG AntiVirus (shareware), Registry Mechanic (shareware), SpyBot (shareware), and DiskKeeper ($30), and Microsoft's Malware Guard (free).

I have been using Norton/Symantec products for over 15 years. Never again.

Norton Systemworks / Personal Firewall 2006 Bundle [Posted on 2007-03-10]
Norton Systemworks / Personal Firewall 2006 Bundle - Works well. No problems. An update to the Systemworks program I already had.

Horrible and expensive  [Posted on 2008-03-31]
This product is horrible! Since we've installed Norton, we have had three viruses, and they charged us $100 to get rid of the last one! To be fair, this product is easy to use, but not very effective. There are free anti-virus programs out there that are just as good at protecting against viruses.

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