Norton 360 Premium, Antivirus software for 10 Devices with Auto-Renewal – Includes Advanced AI Scam Protection, VPN, Dark Web Monitoring & PC Cloud Backup [Download]

product was as advertised

Outstanding. Teamworks well with Malwarebytes. Excellently protected my not-a-computer tech (but absolutely the finest RN) wife from countless deceptive websites.

Norton 360 is a product that people love to hate, I think largely because familiarity breeds contempt. Norton security products date all the way back to 1990, about 8 years after the IBM PC went on the market. I have been using Norton for most of the intervening three decades and have been more satisfied with the product than dissatisfied in all those years. Norton 360 has consistently rated among the top few anti-virus programs for many years. It isn't necessarily the ultimate winner in terms of speed, malware capture or user interface in the various professional reviews, but it is usually in the top 2 or 3 regardless of the measure. It's security, speed, thoroughness of updates and user interface are all quite good. What is maddening, though, is Symantec's business model and incessant up-selling. They try to get you hooked on the product and then make it nigh-on impossible to move off the platform. Symantec mandates that you enroll in auto-renewal when you sign up. At least you can go in to your account to deactivate auto-renewal but they give you the impression that you are "cancelling" your current membership when you do so. If this were in the Fintech space, it might even be considered UDAAP. Other annoying practices are the continuous attempts to get you buy add-on services while making you feel like you are failing at your security efforts if you do not enroll in them. If you ultimately decide to uninstall the product, Norton leaves multiple junk entries in your Windows registry, making total cleanup a manual, laborious and tedious affair. If you are not skilled working at this level in the Windows environment, such registry work can be very risky.

Cannot find cheaper anywhere and performs absolutely flawlessly. It does suggest upgrades to more software but easy enough to click away. Has not failed me on all my computers for the last 13 years. I do accept the autorenew when it installs as that is required. But then go into settings and take off the autorenew. I then buy the latest off amazon when my year is just about up and install it. If I install too early I have had to call Norton customer service to merge my account and make sure i get credit for time left on last install. Easiest to just wait until service is almost up and then put in new product code.

I have been a Norton (Symantec) user for about 10 years. As of 2023, I have had enough. I strongly recommend you find something else now.== ADWARE WITH PROTECTIONNorton does protect. However, it has become bloated and inefficient. It insists on doing additional scans only to try and sell you upgrades to fix "problems." I am sure less tech-savvy people fall for the urgent recommendations and the tricky subscription sign-ups for additional products. The incessant pop-ups are almost always unnecessary and often lead to these upsell attempts.== PUTS YOU AT RISK OF COMPLETELY DISABLING YOUR COMPUTEROne of the "fixes" it now offers is to update drivers. Unless you are careful, applying their updates could cause huge problems with your computer. You should really only be doing this through your computer manufacturer's update methods (website or software app).== THE OUTRAGEOUS UNINSTALL EXPERIENCEUninstalling Norton is ridiculous!! Using the normal Windows uninstaller fails to complete so you are directed to download and use the "Norton Removal and Reinstall" tool. Running that, it only has a button for "Remove and Reinstall" but if you click on the "Advanced" button, it displays a grave warning that you shouldn't just uninstall and then, finally, a "Remove Button." (see photo)But wait!! You think it's gone, but it might not be. After rebooting one of my computers, an urgent Norton window popped up telling you to reinstall Norton! I had to run their removal tool two more times to get rid of it, not before searching the web to find lots of people needing more help getting it off their system.UPDATE: After over a week, one of our other computers started popping up a window insisting we reinstall Norton with NO CANCEL BUTTON. You have to end the process (very technical) to get it to go away.UPDATE #2: I was at my father's house for the holidays and he also wanted to move to a different antivirus product. I tried to uninstall Norton, ran into the same problems, and I had to contact Norton support to get it removed!!! They had to connect to his laptop to do it remotely!!! If you ignore what I've said and install it anyway, I hope you like it because you'll never remove it on your own. Choose another option.This uninstall experience cemented my decision to switch to something else. It's basically malware.== MY SWITCHMy Netgear router has a network protection service that includes their well-reviewed Bitdefender antivirus software, a Norton competitor. I decided to try it out on one computer. It's so much more peaceful. I does need initial tweaking in terms of what protection I do and don't want which is expected. Of course, it has some premium offerings (e.g., VPN), but it isn't aggressive and tricky like Norton. The software itself is priced competitively.== Regarding VPNsDon't use the Norton VPN or any antivirus software's VPN. You'll get much better performance from a separate VPN service for the same or cheaper. I use Windscribe but there are other good ones out there (NordVPN, SurfShark, ExpressVPN, Private Internet Access), Check reviews.