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Norton Internet Security 2005-

Norton Internet Security 2005

Symantec Corp.
http://www.symantec.com

Operating Systems: All Windows Versions
License Length: 1 Year

Norton's antivirus, antispam, and firewall modules work great together. Privacy and parental control even enchance your protection even more. Norton Internet Security 2005 is our editors choice among other security suites.

Very good firewall and virus protection. Even protection against spam and instant message viruses and other privacy threats. Blocks ad, cookies, and malicious scripts on the Web.

User interface can be a little slow at times. May not catch/clean all viruses, but gets 90% of them. Anti-spam program marked a lot of legitimate e-mail as spam.

$32.00 - 70.00

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Symantec's Norton Internet Security 2005 is one of the best anti-virus and firewall programs on the market today. It's interface and layout is clean and well-designed. The security suite is actually several programs combined into one. The suite contains an anti-virus, a firewall, a spam blocker, and a pop-up/ad remover.

In our tests, Norton removed about 90% of all threats on our computer. It had a hard time deleting spyware found on our system and removing a few viruses. Mostly it did exactly as it should and detected and removed the viruses. Usually Norton will detect a virus before it does any damage to your computer and alert you in real-time as you are working on your computer. When it did that it always took care of the threat. The firewall is very effective and can sometimes be a little too effective. For example, to play any games, such as Battlefield 1942, we had to tell Norton to "allow" this program to access the Internet. This is only a one time thing, but it can get annoying if you have a lot of programs that have to access the Internet.

The anti-spam program is a bit on the suspect side. We had a hard time with it and eventually disabled it. It made too many false-positives, meaning it thought legitimate e-mail was spam. In some research around the Web, we found some people had good experianced with the anti-spam program and some didn't. We recommend you disable the anti-spam program and get something better for that.

Some other features of NIS 2005 is the parental controls. Parents will like these because they can be used to restrict where children go on the Internet. Norton constantly receives a list of blocked URL's and when a child visits one, it doesn't let the site load and displays a blocked-message.

Overall, Norton Internet Security 2005 is a great program, but it has its flaws. For the professional computer users, NIS 2005 is probably perfect for you. For novice computer users looking for simplicity and "setup and go" functionality, you may want to look at something like Zone Alarm's Firewall.