Symantec Norton Internet Security - 3.0

I originally bought Norton Systemworks 3.0 and somewhere between Pather and Tiger I started getting more errors than help from it. Last April I thought I'd fix it by buying NIS. Oh have I been sorry. No more protection and three times the error messages everytime I start up. Not to mention I couldn't use the Mac's built-in firewall because regardless of whether the Norton Personal Firewall was enabled it was still telling the system there was another firewall running.

As others have commented, the Uninstall app on the CD from Symantec does nothing but produce a long string of 'Unknown Error' messages (this seems to be the company's specialty). So I restarted my powerbook in target mode and, using my wife's iBook I systematically trashed every app, extension, shortcut and even web page that spotlighted 'symantec', 'norton', 'npf'.

Then I restarted and for the first time in 8 months I got to turn on the native firewall on my Mac. I feel so much better. I'm not even going to try to get money back from Symantec. Just please don't ever give them any of yours.

Oh, and I used to use a great firewall product in OS 9 called Doorstop. I hear they're still good so I'm going to check them out.

I''ve had NIS 3.0 for about 2 weeks, and can attest that it is not fully compatible with OS 10.4.4. On restart, I get 3 error messages re NIS: 1. "Unable to load Norton Privacy Control Ext. Reinstall and restart" . 2. "Norton Personal Firewall Error - Could not launch kernel extension; Firewall will work, but some features don't work". 3. Norton Antivirus error - Autoprotect could not continue." I haven't really put NIS 3.0 thru its paces, but it is obvious it's not doing a whole lot for me. On initial installation, NIS produced a note that it detected a new version of OS X (meaning my 10.4.4), thus might be incompatible, or something to that effect. I've noticed that as the reviews progress in time thru OS 10.1 to 10.2 to 10.3 to 10.4, they get increasingly negative. Apparently, NIS 3.0 is compatible with 10.1 and 10.2, less so for 10.3, and mostly useless for 10.4. I am going to try to get my money back, it is not for my computer, just a piece of expensive trash. Perhaps someday Symantec will come out with a new version or upgrade compatible with 10.3 & 10.4, but for now, it's not for me.

Norton put me more in trouble than it resolved any problem to me.
When I tried to reach their support, it NEVER replied.
Then they're a lying bastards about security on OS-X.
What this keynote of them ordered by Mr Allen and Mr Gates.
For whom do those guys roll ?

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/num.nsf/docid/2005032314263511

In Spain software companies are complaining a lot about ilegal software, and if what they are saying it true, then we are one of the very few companies that only has legal software. When at the same time you see the service that Symantec is giving to their clients, one starts to ask whether companies, like Symantec deserve our support.

they're not compatible. I emailed Symantec and got a reply from their India tech support that "they're working on it and will post it on their website" whenever they get an update for Tiger. I tried Firewall and Anti-virus separately to see if it was one or the other that caused the problems (freezes, popups saying the NIS wasn't working and I'd need to uninstall and reinstall) - and found that both caused the same problems. I'd tried the uninstall and reinstall and it made no difference. The only thing that made Tiger run smoothly was uninstalling the whole NIS package. That's just pitiful that an important app like this hasn't already got an update ready.