Why I buy this one ?
- Removes viruses, worms, and Trojan horses automatically
- Internet Worm Protection blocks certain more sophisticated worms
- Detects spyware and other non-virus threats
- QuickScan and PreInstall Scan; enhanced packer support
- Defends against malicious code; easy to use

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What our customer's say!

"Don't Know What The Fuss is About", Haven't had any problems with this program. My machine is powerful. I use XP service pack 2. So far, it's unobtrusive. And it works. I suspect lots of people having problems are either using inferior machines, or don't know what they're doing (anti-virus is only as smart as the end-user).

Highly recommend this program.

"installer is bloated and slow, but it works well enough once installed and configured", I downloaded this from Norton to upgrade the old 2001 version I had on my old Dell Win2k system with 512 MB RAM. Actually I downloaded the 2005 subscription by mistake (not the product) so I called Norton/Symantec and they gave me a free download of the product with a 1 year update subscription even though it costs more than what I paid for the subscription. They didn't even bill me the difference, though I offered to pay it. It took a while to sort out on the phone but the net result was good service.

The installer was so slow and bloated, had to download itself using Norton's own download manager, so it was about 4x slower than if it let me download it on my own. After installing it downloaded another 30 MB of updates. Several reboots later it was running but it disabled USB card reader. At this point I was ready to uninstall this bloatware and throw it out the window.

But I persisted. I drilled into all the various dialogs to configure it. Then my USB card reader started working again. Then used it to scan my machine. It found and removed several threats. Usually I turn off all active scans because they usually kill performance. But for this particular threat I had to turn them on. To my surprise, they did not kill performance or cause any problems, yet they did find and block an IE worm.

One thing I don't like is that when it finds adware it doesn't remove it automatically nor does it have a button to let you easily remove it. It tells you where the offending files are then you have to pull up the quarantine window and navigate to them manually to quarantine the files. It does the job but makes it a little harder than it needs to be.

Also when it detects and blocks worms or scripts, it doesn't follow the trail backward to find the offending process and purge it of viruses. Running a scan afterwards doesn't always find a virus even if you know there *must* be one in there (due to the worm activity it detected). They could make the product more powerful by tracing the worm's TCP port back to the process, scanning that process and all its DLLS, etc.

I've had no problems with liveupdate - it works fine.

Overall this was a useful upgrade for me and it works well despite the installation difficulties. Minus one star for the bloated installer, minus one star for the above issues so I give it 3 stars.

"Very pleased", I am running Norton Anti virus 2005 and I have had no problems at all. I have 3 friends running the same with absolutely no problems. Everyone I know who has had problems are on dial up connections. That seems to be the problem. My computer is free from viruses and spyware. I have checked it with several free programs and they found nothing.

"purchase with caution!", I had this installed on my pc and all was well until a pop up message told me that an attack had been made on my pc. All it told me was that it was a trojan and nothing else, such as the name. I contacted their support only to be told that they wanted even more money for them to put me through to someone that would help me remove the virus if I still had it on the system!

I then said that I was not happy about this so then they told me that I could do it myself by going to a link they gave me and searching for the name of the virus.

I explained to them, yet again that the report did not give me a name of the virus. Guess what the anwser was - yes that's right they asked for a payment again to tell me if I had got a virus or not and how to remove it if I had!

Asking them what was the point in buying their product in the first place was I had the anwser that when you subcribe to them you only buy the product and 12 months worth of virus definitions, but if you wanted to remove a virus then that was a different department and help removing a virus would require a payment!!!!!!

I removed their product after they failed to help.

I was totally unimpressed with their service to say the least. Thank you Norton for nothing "have a nice day!"

"NOTHING BUT PROBLEMS!", I'm very grateful that I read these reader reviews before I renewed my Norton 2005 Antivirus. I do have ME & I thought all my problems were just ME. Then I read that it's the combo of Norton & ME! ALL the problems people were describing, were mine also (Systems freezes, failed shutdowns, error pop ups, run out of RAM frequently, even though I installed more) For months, I couldn't run Live UpDate, I couln't run scan disk or defrag. I'm afraid I spent most of the year trying to fix my computer! I SO identified with those who said that Norton IS the Virus! I had trouble deleting it too, but SECURITY SHIELD gave good tips for that.(After ADD/Remove, go to MyComputer-CDrive-ProgramFiles-Common Files, delete Norton/Symantec & if needed, rename file & drag it to desktop Recycle Bin & Empty that. It worked! So far PCSecurity Shield(ViRobot)is working just fine for me.

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"Don't use if you ever want to play games!", After installing NAV 5, a whole slew of games of mine would crash by locking up computer. I had to hard boot to get things back in order. I took me serveral attempts trying different graphic drivers and hardware components to track down the cause. On a hunch, I uninstalled NAV and installed avast! 5.0. Since then, my computer has been running like a champ.

NAV is expensive and it just does not work right (much in the same way as their Norton Works didn't). I recommend avast! 5.0, but there are several other highly recommnened and cheaper anti-virus solutions on site like download.com and tucows.com

"Stay away, much better stuff available", This came pre-loaded on my wife's new laptop. I was not very happy with the laptop as it was way too slow (AMD 3000, 1g RAM) and about to take it back. On a hunch, I uninstalled the Norton Suite (demo license) and the machine booted up in seconds rather than minutes. Everything on this machine executes quickly now. That's enough for me. Do what I did, get a copy of Avast! (which is free to home users, but I'd pay for it) and be done with the performance hit.

"Same Program Can be a Gem or a Dud", I have a variety of computers with a variety of operating systems. 2005 was incredibly lousy on my older machines--every bad thing people have said is true on ME, etc. But, on XP and with a relatively modern/powerful machine, 2005 worked like a charm. Its resource hog issues will not be a problem, as there are so many available. Certainly, it's a wonderful program to run if you're looking for a bargain at this date and/or if you like to use a third-party firewall and don't want to have to deal with switching off a suite's firewall features with those attendant problems. For these purposes, it's a good stand-alone anti-virus, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it as such to those with newer machines.

"Load it ONCE and you are STUCK with it -- AVOID, AVOID, AVOID!!!", Zero Stars was not an option, sorry.

Like many others in these review, I've used and liked the Norton series of products for many years, back to even before Norton was bought out by Symantec. I bought NAV2005 a bit over a year ago and loaded it on top of NAV2004, as I could get it for only a few dollars more than the renewal, under $30. It seemed better, mostly worked OK though it DOES slow the system down a LOT. [I wonder if all the 5 star one liners are Symantec employees looking for a raise? The one that said it has no performance impact is a bald faced LIAR!] Anyway, I was agast at the remewal charge for the NAV2005 subscription. Now instead of $20 or so, it was almost $50! And at the time my subscription ran out, NAV2006 wasn't available, even if it was going to be cheaper when it did come out (odd!?!). So, I just bought a discounted 2005 version again, and with it a new License Key.

Well, guess what, Symantec figured that one out and has now made it so that no matter what you do, uninstall/reinstall, or first clean the registry of the DOZENS of entrys left behind by their so-called uninstall programs (even the SymNRT removal tool), or whatever, if you reinstall the same product again, it will say your license is expired. Maybe Symantec keeps that on file in house, so when you web activate on the same hardware it resets the dates backwards?

Therefore, YOU REALLY HAVE NO CHOICE if you want to stay with their product. You either have to pay the outrageous renewal fee, or buy their new product, which is not really a solution either because I'm sure it has the same issue -- you are only postponing the inevitable.

Since this particular computer (notebook) is being retired from business to my wife's personal use, I'm going BLOW NAV COMPLETELY AWAY, and use AVAST instead. AVAST is free for non-commercial use, is light, easy to use, updates itself nicely and doesn't get in the way.

Here is the warning for all of you considering Symantec products -- DON'T. The only way they'll get over this arrogance and customer abuse is to be hurt in the marketplace. So vote against this behavior with your wallet -- keep it closed. Don't be fooled by the "free" license (cost = rebate), because they will then gouge you on the other end with renewals. My production desktop PC now has McAfee on it. I'll see in a year how they behave.

Symantec could have avoided this whole scenario by simply making the product and the annual upgrades a reasonable price (not playing these rebate games), and setting the renewal fees in the $20 space - I would have done that and not thought twice about it but $50 per year is over my threshold of pain.

Symantec has lost a previously loyal customer. Too bad...

"Never Use with Windows Me", Norton literally micro-managed my system. I couldn't even run a disk scan or de-frag because Norton modules were running. It sometimes caused my computer to shut down or restart. I spent most of my time looking at error messages. The best thing I ever did was uninstall Norton and start using the free Antivir software.