Norton Internet Security

No hassles installing. No hassles updating. No annoying ads popping up every few seconds dring me crazy. No need to mess with any of the settings. How much easier can life get! Worth the money. And for a few of the people I've seen bagging this product in reviews on the net, all I can say is buy a book and learn how to set up your computer properly.

I found it very easy to install. In comparison with Zone Alarm, its far less "Fiddly" Even chaging the options is virtually idiot proof.The best thing about it the firewall. It decides whats safe and what isn't and best of all no pop ups!!. Excellent program.

In the past few days, I've been installing various firewall, antivirus, spyware removers and the like.

Point 1: Nod32 detected some exe files in my temps that Norton didn't. Those exe weren't supposed to be there anyway, but lucky me, I've got other programs to block stuff like that. Both programs ran a full system scan with default options.

Point 2: Nod immediately detected a dialer trying to install on my pc and prompted me for quarantine. I visited the same page a day before with Norton and I didn't see a thing (that probably explains that .exe file in my temp).

Point 3: The firewall is just an application-level firewall. Sygate was better, Outpost is even better and I'm gonna try Injoy Firewall and see what comes up. All of those firewalls are a lot better than Norton's or Mcafee's for that matter. Take my advice, spent your money elsewhere, and do some research first before bying products just because they are famous brands. That's what trial software is about anyway. And don't count on magazine or organization reviews, you'll find that all seem professional but all contradict each other (probably depending on who's sponsoring them - yeah, I'm into conspiracy theories :P)

Point 4: Recently Norton detected two adware programs. And that's that. No removal. Nothing at all. "Hey you have two adware! Have a nice day!" And

Point 5: It weighs heavily on your resources.
My conclusion is : This Suite is not that great, try Nod or even AVG or anything you like for antivirus, and use Sygate, Outpost or something like that for a firewall. And maybe Spybot for spyware. XP SP2 does a good job for blocking pop-ups and the other software, particularly Outpost block most ads, so NIS is not recommended. A final word, no program is perfect. But I wouldn't put my money on Mcafee or Norton. Mcafee was good when it was in DOS. NIS seemed nice back in 2002. But with so many new and good products in the market, I don't see a reason why I should buy Mcafee or Norton yet AGAIN, when they offer less than other products do.

PS Spam filter is not that bad though. But if you have MS Outlook, that's one more reason NOT to buy NIS.