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My - 1 day - bad experience with Norton
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<blockquote data-quote="fabiobr" data-source="post: 872140" data-attributes="member: 78956"><p><strong><em>"Norton still wanted to add extensions that could change my start page and my default search engine. Off course i could ignore it, but an antivirus trying to convince me to that, was more than enough to me."</em></strong></p><p></p><p>I think you are overreacting, it gives the option on the page to CHOOSE what you want to install.</p><p></p><p><strong><em>"Norton asked me to add my credit card info to use the 360 version. That made no sense as it was a free trial. "</em></strong></p><p></p><p>I don't like that too, but it's a common practice on the AV industry.</p><p></p><p><strong><em>"However, the extension installed on all browsers kept running in background by default."</em></strong></p><p>??? That's a browser config when you install ANY extension, just disable it. Nothing related to Norton.</p><p></p><p>About Norton Premium/360: They still send trials to Norton Premium? I think they only keep Norton 360, maybe that's why you are getting pop ups to change to Norton 360.</p><p></p><p>You can criticize Norton about: Bugs, can't connect to the servers, lack of HIPS, slow at showing detections pop ups, etc, but what you said it's kind of non sense.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fabiobr, post: 872140, member: 78956"] [B][I]"Norton still wanted to add extensions that could change my start page and my default search engine. Off course i could ignore it, but an antivirus trying to convince me to that, was more than enough to me."[/I][/B] I think you are overreacting, it gives the option on the page to CHOOSE what you want to install. [B][I]"Norton asked me to add my credit card info to use the 360 version. That made no sense as it was a free trial. "[/I][/B] I don't like that too, but it's a common practice on the AV industry. [B][I]"However, the extension installed on all browsers kept running in background by default."[/I][/B] ??? That's a browser config when you install ANY extension, just disable it. Nothing related to Norton. About Norton Premium/360: They still send trials to Norton Premium? I think they only keep Norton 360, maybe that's why you are getting pop ups to change to Norton 360. You can criticize Norton about: Bugs, can't connect to the servers, lack of HIPS, slow at showing detections pop ups, etc, but what you said it's kind of non sense. [/QUOTE]
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