Umm,
Ok—yes, I DO have to remove Norton 360 and then install the newly purchased one–but REALLY?
AYFKM?
Let’s see at my hourly rate of approximately, ummm $0, I just saved $35?
Symantec: GFY, I don’t have anything better to do.
Have you ever actually tried to uninstall Norton?
I’ve had a couple of virus problems in the recent past. The worst part was killing and removing Norton so I could fix the problem.
Seriously.
What problems did you have, billfish? Their removal tool did the trick both times I needed to do it.
As for the OP, I have no idea why they do this.
Are they both for 1 computer? Same market? Sometimes online and retail have different prices.
I think they do this because they’re counting on people’s laziness. But several times, I’ve done as the OP suggested; uninstall the software that’s expiring and install a newly purchased license.
If you can wait until Black Friday, it will be $29.99 at Staples.
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[li]Do not renew.[/li][li]Use the Norton removal tool and delete all Norton products from your computer.[/li][li]There are better alternatives, including freeware.[/li][/ol]
Thanks, Alley
Single user, 3 computers.
Online renewal: $79.99 from Symantec
Online new purchase: $40 from Symantec
ROFL.
Is this thread open to general question-asking and/or kvetchng about Norton 360? I have a question.
Does somebody know about file sharing between Winders mochines, where the server (the machine actually having the files) is protected by Norton360?
My tale of woe:
– Winders 7 mochine with Norton360, and folders and files I want to share out.
– Back-office Winders XP mochine, where I want access to file from the Winders 7 mochine.
I have simply NOT been able to get this to work. I am suspecting (vaguely) that Norton360 is causing the problem. I’ve googled, and read a bunch of threads on message boards, and even tried several proposed solutions that seemed to be relevant in our case. Nothing has worked yet.
The back-office mochine can see that the front-office mochine exists. (I can see it on the Winders Explorer–>MyNetworkPlaces–>EntireNetwork–>Workgroup page, where “Workgroup” is – wait for it – the name of the workgroup.) But when I click on the machine name (expecting to see the list of shared folders) I just get an access denied message. (You may not have the necessary resources, or permissions, or something like that, to access this machine. Go hassle your system administrator about this.)
Next up: I would like to try disabling Norton360 completely – Just make it cease altogether! I don’t want to uninstall it (yet). I want to experiment with temporarily enabling/disabling different parts of it, starting with ALL of it, to see what happens. How do I temporarily make Norton360 just not start up when the machine boots?
Or, any other suggestions as to what I should try next?
Sounds like a maximizing profit cost model. Very much like a first time buyer’s discount which is not available to current subscribers.
Over 20+ years I’ve used Unix, DOS, Mac, Windows, and Linux, and the worst experience I’ve ever had was Norton on Windows. Made me want to kill. Norton itself is worse than any virus.
Fuck Norton forever–per above suggestions, use an alternative. I’m surprised Norton is still on the market.
Symantec claims this is because resellers are free to sell below the MSRP but internal sales calculate the upgrade cost based on the MSRP. Disgruntled customers have been complaining about this for years, and pointing out that they can buy it for less from Symantec’s own website too, but they seem to think the solution is to keep buying a new version every year and continue using the product.
To echo what a few others have said, I would rather have a virus than Norton for Windows, regardless of their cooky pricing schemes. You’re much better off with Kaspersky if you want a paid product or Avast for a very good, free product. Combine that with a free firewall like Comodo and you will have better protection with fewer bugs and intrusions on your machine’s performance with no upgrade costs, ever.
Another bitch about both Norton and MacAfee: bloated parasitic software that takes up an enormous amount of memory/space. I dumped them both some years ago and never looked back.
In the bad old days of running Win98 on a pentiumI with not nearly enough RAM. Norton software was so resource intensive that I swore on my first mouse’s grave that I would never install anything from Norton ever again.
On MS-DOS machines norton commander was a very usefull tool.
I cant imagine anyone paying for any product from norton.
Step 1 - remove Norton from system. Better yet, do a fresh install of windows 7/8.
Step 2 - relax and sip margaritas as Microsoft Security Essentials keeps your PC protected for free, and without all the other issues Norton would have caused for you.
I use Avira but it isn’t the best if you take the defaults out of the box. If you tweak it the way I do though to question every process that tries to run, it can be a little chatty. I don’t mind that but I’ve been using it for years.
The general consensus from other forums I’ve seen seems to be that Kaspersky is the best out of the box.
As far as pricing, I had the same issue with Avira. They wanted me to renew for some ridiculous price for 3 PC’s for 3 years. I got a coupon code from retailmenot.com and got a new install code for $40 instead of something like 2-3x that. I just had to uninstall and reinstall.
I would definitely ditch Norton though. I’ve had nothing but problems and you have to download a special uninstaller from them to really exorcise it from your system. I think a special prayer and sacrificial chicken might also be involved.
Yes. Norton is more trouble than it’s worth, by a longshot. I use Avast and Malwarebytes (both free) and I have never once gotten a virus in years. And I have been known to occasionally surf, ah…questionable websites.
This.
Microsoft has a freebie which I’ve used for about 2 years with no problems.
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It could be the Norton, but it could also be Windows 7. Have you disabled password protected sharing on the Windows 7 machine? If it is not disabled, it can cause problems sharing with XP machines, and it won’t tell you what the problem is.
To disable password protected sharing in Windows 7, open the Network and Sharing Center, click on “Change advanced sharing settings” from the blue column on the left. Scroll down to the section labelled “Password protected sharing” and check “Turn off password protected sharing”. Click the “Save changes” button.
This will allow sharing files to Windows XP, if password protected sharing was the issue.
I would remove the Norton first, though.