Is Norton Antivirus a Scam? Is Norton Antivirus Safe to Install? Any Complaints?
Some customers have reported that their credit cards were charged without prior authorization, as well as other billing issues. Please exercise your due diligence when dealing with this company.
There were also customers that have complained about the software having failed to detect certain viruses that have infected their systems.
On the plus side, Symantec Antivirus is completely safe to install according to consumer comments and the experience of one of our reviewers, who has been using this product for the last 3 years.
Pros:
-Norton Antivirus is certified by both West Coast Labs (check here) and Virus Bulletin (check here – look for Symantec Antivirus halfway down the page), both of which are highly reputable companies that perform objective, 3rd party testing and certification of malware removal software.
-Another authoritative tester of antivirus software, AV Comparatives, found Symantec Antivirus to have a whopping 98.4% malware detection rate and a scanning speed of 17.2 Mb/s (which is faster than all but one of all the software they tested). For this they were awarded the AV Comparatives Advanced+ Award, which is the highest-level award that can be earned. (You can see the pdf report here.)
-Symantec Norton Antivirus is updated VERY frequently – at the rate of 233 updates/day on average, according to AV-Test[dot]org (see here).
-Consumer feedback indicates that starting from version 2009, this software has appeared to be vastly improved from earlier versions. Even consumers who previously abhorred Norton Symantec, that for various reasons gave it another try by trying out version 2009, have said very positive things about it. As for version 2010, it’s too early to hear anything from consumers yet, but reputed reviewers like CNET are saying that the 2010 version is either as good or better than the 2009 version.
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