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For those who do not know, the Norton Branded products are not the same as when they were by Peter Norton. Today they are owned by Symantec as they have been for several years and Symantec has proven to be a company that relies more on the product's reputation from the past than the present. They have also show an uncanny ability to buy very good products and and never update anything but the box. Their firewall is still basically the old @Guard Firewall and they have recently bought all of the PowerQuest line of software, which I also expect to go down in quality.
Norton AV, starting with the 2003 version has had problems with the auto-update system and other problems which many times will cause you to reinstall the product a couple of times during the year's subscription.
Norton Systemworks will kill a computer running XP or 2000 if you use any of it's features.
Forget Norton!