yo. i just joined and started thinkin of when i got norton 360.

I have had a lot of spyware hunters/killers, norton 360 has been the best so far. it tunes up your computer with 4 clicks, scans, and kills with 10-20 more. it stops every thing. Even i use it on my sem-what gaming rig that i built in the summer of 2009. it leterly closed one of my games due to a hacker on the server getting into my comp. its just was amasing of what it found. i dont know how it works, but its worth the 70 USD.

Only people i have ever heard say norton was brilliant were pricks trying to sell it, its crap it didnt find a single thing when i had it on my computer, the best anti virus you can get are free ones, the only time you should download anything from symantec is to download the tool to get rid of norton.

I'll have to concur with popeye. I used norton, every version because my brother pushed it off on me time and time again, but it is now officially near the bottom of the list with all the rest. I think I'd rather have mcAfee and they'd have to hold a gun to my head to ever put up with that BS program again.
Norton is shit plain and simple and if you don't see it yet, you don't have much exp. with anti-virus programs. 70 bucks. kiddin right? I wouldn't pay for a program that tricks you into thinking it works better than the rest, because it doesn't. One is as bad as the next. You were dupped by the hype my friend. The only reason the hacker didn't succeed is because he didn't try hard enough. rest my case.

You would be better off without anti virus than have norton, you are better off assuming you have spyware on your computer than trust a program like norton, reason i got rid was it was so obnious i had somthing on my computer it was a struggle to keep it running and norton kept telling me there was nothing there, when i downloaded a decent anti virus it found dozens of virus's amd trojans, even if norton was any good i still wouldnt have it because it slows computer down that much im amazed its fast enough to catch anything.

norton isnt just crap its dagerous, people think they are protected, if you have norton download a few free anti virus programs and when they catch somthing that norton misses dont just uinstall norton it will mess up your computer download the tool from their website and run ccleaner afterwards because there will still be crap on your computer, worse than having a virus.

I agree with Popeye & Troubleshooter. I had norton an all it did was mess up my computer, had a hell of a time getting red of it. I went with Avast (witoh is a free program) and it got rid of the 297 assorted viruses &crap that Norton left me. If you decide to keep it "Beware"

The newer versions of Norton catch malware a little better than the previous versions, but its a pretty hefty program.
I would recommend Avira AntiVir for prevention, and MalwareBytes for removal.

I might Try Adavast to see if theres any thing that is missed bacasue ive been having some probs with Steam and the Games from Steam. or im just being Picky about how fast games load, witch arent we all?

There are ways around norton blocking steam by changing the firewall, but the bottom line is norton shouldnt be arseing round with it in the first place.

Norton can be a real resource hog and really slow a system down. I wouldnt say a system is "optimized" either after a norton "check up". Ive seen systems that were almost unresponsive, come to life after norton was removed. We see many infections in our shop, and usually the only ones running a paid antivirus to no avail were using paid mcafee or norton. I see much better detection rates and less slow down with Eset or Kaspersky.

i have 2 computers at my house one with norton 360 4.0 and one with ESET smart security which won many awards look it up and ESET is so much better use up not much ram and finds everything its great (created by hackers to prevent hackers)