Norton 360 - Light, powerful and easy to use

[fabiobr]

Norton 360 is perfect for the home users who want a complete automated suite, advanced users may miss advanced settings and an Application control module like Kaspersky.

I set SONAR to agressive mode, let heuristics at normal. Norton is one of the suites "install and forget". The only thing you should pay attention installing at the first time is setting up backup.

The new version the VPN interface is integrated to My Norton interface.

Sorry my bad english.

Spoiler: Launcher

Spoiler: Installation

Spoiler: Interface

Spoiler: Settings

Spoiler: Data Protector

Spoiler: Performance

Spoiler: File Insight

Spoiler: Background tasks started alert

Spoiler: Isolate mode

Spoiler: Intrusion Prevention

Spoiler: File Insight - RDR

 

[Divine_Barakah]

Very nice and well-organised review! Great effort

 

[oldschool]

Very nice review!

 

[marcopaone]

@Andrew3000

 

[Burrito]

Yeah, very good review.

This review would be BVLon approved.

Some countries also get LifeLock. Not sure which ones.... US, maybe Canada, UK, Australia...? (Not sure)

Spoiler: Optional LifeLock in some places..

 

[roger_m]

@fabiobr A great review. I would just add that rather than using Revo, it's much better to use their own Norton Remove and Reinstall tool to ensure that all leftovers get removed. Although it's called "Remove and Reinstall," you can use it solely for removing leftovers, without reinstalling Norton again.

Download and run the Norton Remove and Reinstall tool for Windows

Norton Remove and Reinstall tool helps to uninstall and reinstall most Norton products such as Norton Security, Norton 360, and Norton Internet Security on Windows computers.

support.norton.com

Uninstallers which scan for leftovers, don't do well for antiviruses, as there are sometimes for example, drivers that remain after the uninstall and tools like Revo won't find them in the scan for leftovers.

 

[Divine_Barakah]

Uninstallers which scan for leftovers, don't do well for antiviruses, as there are sometimes for example, drivers that remain after the uninstall and tools like Revo won't find then in the scan for leftovers.

That's why I have always restored a clean Windows image after trying a security product. I know it is much of a hassle but it is way way better than having an unstable system

 

[amico81]

I absolutely agree on that but it seems that there is some trouble now with the licenses:

Symantec not processing subscription renewals?

Solution: I got this about a month ago. In case anyone else did not, seems relevant to some of what you are experiencing:

community.spiceworks.com

CrowdStrike CEO: Partners Coming To Us As Symantec ‘Abandons’ Many Customers | CRN

CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said his company has landed many Symantec channel partners following the November sale of the company’s enterprise business to Broadcom.

www.crn.com

 

[Cortex]

Great review & thanks for the effort you put in - I mainly agree Norton is first class, I'm not sure if I would ever use it's VPN but that's always personal choice, Norton one of my favourite AV products for sure!

 

[Burrito]

I absolutely agree on that but it seems that there is some trouble now with the licenses:

Yeah, all true.

But that is for Symantec.

This (fabiobr's) thread is about Norton.

They are separate entities now

 

[Dave Russo]

That's why I have always restored a clean Windows image after trying a security product. I know it is much of a hassle but it is way way better than having an unstable system

Have you ever tried ti uninstall Eset?,Seem like to remove, can only be done in safe mode

 

[SeriousHoax]

Norton is very light and super fast. The only two things Norton is slow at is removing a malware and its Download insight feature. It's the slowest to remove a malware and after downloading a file or opening a folder with exe files, Norton's download insight is quite slow to analyze it. But none of this is really any issue because one would rarely require Norton to remove a malware, one doesn't download new apps everyday on their PC, download insight for a particular file is a one time thing only.
I hope this didn't sound like a negative comment about the product. Norton is a great product and this is a great review but I thought I should add this in order to complete the review

 

[Dave Russo]

As far as cons go,support is poor(want you to sign up for paid support)Server seems unstable at times,lots of sign in,web protection did not let me make exception to a site,I like others do that block problem can can still see the movies(movies123)

 

[mlnevese]

Have you ever tried ti uninstall Eset?,Seem like to remove, can only be done in safe mode

I used to have this problem with former versions of ESET. It even disabled networking completely sometimes forcing a repair of the TCP stack. Version 13 seems to be much cleaner when uninstalling.

Norton has an excellent offer in my country right now but I already have licenses for 3 products and don't need a 4th one... if they still have a good offer next year I may consider them

 

[jerzy601]

very well described review.
I agree with Norton is a good security and light program.
thanks for the big input.

 

[SeriousHoax]

web protection did not let me make exception to a site

This is a con worth mentioning. I was troubled by this.

 

[mlnevese]

Just a quick question as I haven't used Norton for a long time. Does the current version still install multiple browser extensions?

 

[bjm_]

Just a quick question as I haven't used Norton for a long time. Does the current version still install multiple browser extensions?

Same as long time re Norton for PC. Norton program install - installs Norton browser add-ons in legacy Internet Explorer.
For modern supported browser. Norton browser extensions are installed from browser web store.
Before 22.19. Norton prompted (read much annoyed) user to install Norton extensions.
Since 22.19. Norton includes “Don’t remind me again” option to snooze the UI alert permanently until uninstall/reinstall - this fixes the issue from past versions, where we used to put the product back in red state by default after 7 days.
https://community.norton.com/en/blogs/product-update-announcements/norton-security-2219963-windows-now-available
current Norton 360 v22.20.2.57

 

[mlnevese]

The three plug-ins it required to install on every browser have always been one of the reasons I never returned to Norton products. If it works correctly without them then I'll certainly consider it next year.

 

[bjm_]

The three plug-ins it required to install on every browser have always been one of the reasons I never returned to Norton products. If it works correctly without them then I'll certainly consider it next year.

Well, I run Chrome, Firefox and new Edge with Norton Safe Web extension installed - enabled. I've not tested with no extensions installed or with Safe Web disabled....long time. Sorry.