Norton AntiVirus 9.0 and Norton Utilities 8.0 Bundle (Mac) review: 1 stars (Slow, slow, slow, errors. Aughh! :() - I purchased this combination for a new iMac running OS X.4. It is very slow (both AntiVirus and Utilities). AntiVirus brings up an error everytime the computer starts saying it needs to be re-installed which has been tried and did not change the error message. I hope I never need to start the computer from Utilities, because I did that once and it took 45 min to start up, and 60 min to shut down (actually, I got tired fo waiting and turned the computer off by holding the power button until it shut down.) I'm tempted to just take these off my computer, but in the past I've had Mac viruses, and found Utilities to be helpful. I haven't found these two current products useful yet. 1 stars (There has got to be something better than this!) - The "Live Update" function does not work. You cannot boot up your computer from its "Start-up Disk." It is agonizingly slow. And, in the end, it will state that it cannot fix the problems. I wish I had my money, and my wasted hours, back.
UPDATE: I finally figured out that the way to get some of its functions to work was to let them tie up the computer for twice as long as it is supposed to take to initiate. It is exasperatingly slow. If you wish to use it, block out an entire day, because you will need at least seven hours. It also interferes with the Appleworks application, slowing the spreadsheet operations and impeding the saving of changed documents.
Norton AntiVirus 9.0 and Norton Utilities 8.0 Bundle (Mac) is the CD-ROM version. The full version can be purchased by clicking on the "CLICK HERE TO ORDER" button below for around 109.99USD.
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