I have used Norton products for ten years and have always thought that they are the best despite a few problems along the way. A year ago I purchased Norton Internet Security 2007 and since then Norton gave me a free download of the 2008 version. This year (as always) it is more expensive to buy a boxed product than simply renew the subscription - CRAZY !!! But every year I buy the new product, so I already have a new boxed Internet Security 2008 to install in a few days time.
HOWEVER,I have recently been having a few problems, and every time I scan my computer I find viruses - today there were two Trojan Horses that were zipped in e.mail spam, and a Downloader virus. The first two were dealt with, the latter can't be dealt with - I have ... Read More:
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A soon as I loaded this software problems started. The instructions are not very clear so perhaps I did something wrong, but things started happening like the firewall being turned of, or error messages saying that the disk on the destination drive had a problem. Now, to start up Save & Restore, takes about 15 minutes; although the first back up worked fine, since then it tells me that it hasn't created a back up point; when I tried to make a system restore disk ( Save & Restore said the restore disk supplied was lacking 2 drivers) the whole computer crashed in error messages about Driver Mining failed... The instruction manual did not explain anything so I went on the Symantec "Chat Helpline". The "technician" took over control of my computer, ... Read More:
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A soon as I loaded this software problems started. The instructions are not very clear so perhaps I did something wrong, but things started happening like the firewall being turned of, or error messages saying that the disk on the destination drive had a problem. Now, to start up Save & Restore, takes about 15 minutes; although the first back up worked fine, since then it tells me that it hasn't created a back up point; when I tried to make a system restore disk ( Save & Restore said the restore disk supplied was lacking 2 drivers) the whole computer crashed in error messages about Driver Mining failed... The instruction manual did not explain anything so I went on the Symantec "Chat Helpline". The "technician" took over control of my computer, ... Read More:
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A soon as I loaded this software problems started. The instructions are not very clear so perhaps I did something wrong, but things started happening like the firewall being turned of, or error messages saying that the disk on the destination drive had a problem. Now, to start up Save & Restore, takes about 15 minutes; although the first back up worked fine, since then it tells me that it hasn't created a back up point; when I tried to make a system restore disk ( Save & Restore said the restore disk supplied was lacking 2 drivers) the whole computer crashed in error messages about Driver Mining failed... The instruction manual did not explain anything so I went on the Symantec "Chat Helpline". The "technician" took over control of my computer, ... Read More:
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It look's Smart But as always! It cannot take full control over Microsoft's built in feature's, I can only give it a rating of 2% out of 10% only for lovely colours ONLY. Thumbs down yet again for another year.
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It look's Smart But as always! It cannot take full control over Microsoft's built in feature's, I can only give it a rating of 2% out of 10% only for lovely colours ONLY. Thumbs down yet again for another year.
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I have been using Ghost 10 for quite a while. Ghost 10 didn't have the most intuitive of intuitive of interfaces but I quickly got used to its quirks. I had read that the new program had made this all a lot clearer and on first sight it is. It is much larger with nice pie charts and graphics showing you information about what backups you have. After struggling with it for hours, I decided it was far less intuitive or just the same but involving more operations. If you want to delete recovery points, what do you want - tasks or tools? What these people never seem to do when designing these things is to ask their secretaries or girl friends to sit down and try and work it out. They might get some useful suggestions.
I upgraded from Ghost 9 to Ghost 12 specifically to use the Recovery Point feature as I am upgrading from XP to Vista and wanted a restore point. Sadly, this much hyped feature doesn't work. The problem is that unless the source disk is completely clean (no bad sectors, no CRC failures) the Recovery Point simply fails. When it does fail there is a link to follow to download somthing called Autofix. This doesn't work either - in fact, it won't install at all (it appears to download ok, but the install doesn't run). When Autofix failed I followed the link to the Symantec tech support pages only to find this takes you to Ghost 10 info and not Ghost 12. Booting from the ISO image CD that Ghost 12 creates (which does work) allows you to run various diagnostics ... Read More:
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I upgraded from Ghost 9 to Ghost 12 specifically to use the Recovery Point feature as I am upgrading from XP to Vista and wanted a restore point. Sadly, this much hyped feature doesn't work. The problem is that unless the source disk is completely clean (no bad sectors, no CRC failures) the Recovery Point simply fails. When it does fail there is a link to follow to download somthing called Autofix. This doesn't work either - in fact, it won't install at all (it appears to download ok, but the install doesn't run). When Autofix failed I followed the link to the Symantec tech support pages only to find this takes you to Ghost 10 info and not Ghost 12. Booting from the ISO image CD that Ghost 12 creates (which does work) allows you to run various diagnostics ... Read More:
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