The problems I have with Norton Utilities are: 1. They are incredibly resource-hungry
2. Symantec is not at all user-friendly in terms of support. 3. Their download policy of products which you purchase is disgusting. Even if you have the base level install utility, if you suffer a system crash, after a certain period of time you cannot download the product you bought any more, so bang goes your installation. That, in my view, is not the right way to treat your customers. In view of this last problem in particular, I stay away from Symantec's software products. Of course, Symantec is taking over the world in terms of security products in general. For instance, they hav recently acquired two certificate signing authorities, GeoTrust being one of them. GeoTrust is the second largest provider of security signing products behind Verisign. Thaut, (think I spelled that correctly) is the third largest. GeoTrust's operations, thank goodness, have not changed, and their technical support is still excellent. That's why we continue to use that company for our SSL signing products. However, I am continually watchful as I will change to another non-Symantec owned company if the support policies change. Anyway, back to the topic under discussion. Naturally it's always interesting to hear about people's experience of these things, and if the product has changed in terms of its interaction with other products and with the operating systems, so much the better. it is also true to say that one can make a system level backup these days, so if the system breaks it should be easy to roll it back and not have to worry about the downloading of the software. So yes, that assertion could be slightly superfluous now. However, speaking from a personal perspective, we have a lifetime license for another product and it really couldn't be much better to be honest. It doesn't keep popping up with needless windows as some other products of its kind do. It just sits there and gets on with its job. So, Norton would have to be blazingly good for me personally to consider switching. On 19 Jan 2013, at 14:44, Dane Trethowan <[email protected]> wrote: Hi! Its been a while since I've played with any versions of Norton Utilities, I think its been a good 10 years in fact. I was sent a trial of Norton Utilities 15, its installed on one of my Windows PC's and I'm very happy to report that the software seems quite accessible. No, you can't use the Tab key to get around but you can use your WE Cursor or the JAWS cursor etc to navigate the screen and find out what all the options, functions and settings are, as you move you'll hear brief help messages pertaining to each function you move to. Will I buy Norton Utilities 15? Its a bit too early to say but I'll certainly be interested to play with the software for the remaining 30 days. 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