Others say...

"Norton Internet Security 2005"
TERIBLE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE. My life is too short to deal with this c$#p! I only wish I had read the reviews before I bought this junkie software. I also was a loyal Norton customer. I remember using Norton utilities in the good-old days of DOS and I never had any problems. Unfortunately, I suspect that Mr. Norton has long ago sold out to Symantec and he's on a beach somewhere. Now we have to deal with a faceless, heartless (and money grubbing) corporation. The anti-spam feature works intermittently and unreliably. Further, customer support is a JOKE. Here's the lesson I've learned: Before buying any important software or hardware, check the internet for user reviews! Ignore the "editor" reviews since that's nothing more than corporate hype.

PS. If you look at the customer reviews in this section, see if you can find the one that sounds like a corporate ad. I'll bet that guy works for Symantec. ;-)

"Great difficulty with Intrusion detection"
There is a great deal of difficulty with installation errors especially with the Intrusion detection feature. Many of the home customers that I support are not sophisticated enough to go through the knowledge base solutions in order to fix these "permissions" problems. Also, sometimes they don't even work. I have to install and reinstall the software several times without success.
This is the first time in 14 years of using Norton products that I have had these problems. I am seriously considering switching to Zone Alarm Pro Security Suite.

"Don't throw your money away"
Having read the reviews on Amazon, I went against everything logical, and ordered 4 licenses of NIS for computers at my place of work. You see, I've been a loyal customer of Norton Antivirus/Firewall for the last several years, and have always been happy with the product.

Alas, I should have known better. One of the machines that I attempted to install this abomination on crashed 3-4 times during the installation, and a couple of times during the consequent Live Update session. Another machine (mine) crashed once or twice during Live Update. Additionally, I spent almost an entire day trying to get SSL to work over SMTP. The traditional approach has been to disable scanning of outgoing messages. Apparently, Symantec doesn't think that's good enough, as even with outgoing mail filtering disabled, SSL over SMTP fails miserably. I've disabled the firewall, "AntiSpam", "Antivirus", even the entire suite, trying to get SSL/SMTP to work - to no avail. Some component of this asinine product keeps interfering with mail transportation - I know this, because even with all the components disabled Norton complains (with popup windows) about a "secure email connection which is not supported".

I've turned symantec.com upside-down - there's absolutely nothing about this, anywhere - short of the (useless) "disable outgoing email scans". And yet, everything was fine only moments ago, with NIS 2003.

I've now uninstalled 2005 from one of the computers - that one is fine now (though unprotected). I'm throwing this pile of garbage out tomorrow - I already have my copy of NIS 2003 to replace it with.

"Superior Performance"
I have been a satisfied Symantec customer for many years. I read the Amazon reviews of the Norton Internet Security purchasers and was quite surprised. I suspect that they were expecting a plug and play format and were willing to spend the extra money thinking they were getting some sort of hyper anti-virus package. Internet Security is designed for a user who wants to define their own security system. The problems explained in the previous reviews are easily remedied by a more experienced user. If you don't take the time to learn Internet Security, you will get the tightest system possible and this will inhibit any Internet activity including e-mail. I strongly recommend the basic Norton Anti-Virus software to anyone who is not willing to learn Internet Security. To those who are experienced users or are willing to read the manual, Norton has again come out with a product that is superior to the competition. It is not a waste of time or money.

"Norton Messed Up Bad!"
I bought the 3-user license of the Norton Internet Security. On my PC's and even my new Dell laptop it just refused to work: 1) It slowed down the PC's tremendously 2) e-mails would seem to be sending out as they found their way to the "sent" folder....but they were never really sent out 3)have been trying to work with it for over a month with technical experts trying to solve the problems without success and finally bought their competitor's software which works fine. 4) I am too late to get my money back from Norton. No more Symantec things for me, they stole my money as far as I am concerned.