Last week I received an email from Symantec’s PR Firm, telling me about the new Norton Internet Security 2009. Being fed up with Symantec and their bloated ways over the past couple of years, I normally would have just hit delete.
But before I could hit delete something caught my eye. “Fastest install — Norton Internet Security 2009 installs in only 52 seconds” I immediately said BULL SHIT, who the heck does Symantec think they are trying to fool, no way in HELL does Norton Internet Security 2009 install in under 52 seconds no way in hell does it install in under 20 minutes. I called a few people up and we laughed at that claim.
So after I was done laughing I decided I needed to put it to the test, and make Symantec look like a big liar, so I requested a copy of Norton Internet Security 2009, and over the weekend while I waited for it I joked with a few guys who I know that are network admins and they laughed at the claim too. One of them even said “It will probably ruin your system in under 52 seconds they mean”.
But as the saying goes, he who laughs last laughs the hardest. I hear Symantec laughing really hard right now. I am embarrassed to report that Norton Internet Security 2009 installed on my system in less than 1 minute, in fact if my stop watch was correct it installed in less than 50 seconds. So Symantec I take back all the crap I have said about you guys over the past few years.
It installed so fast that I thought I might of not installed it correctly, so I installed it on a second machine and again it installed in under a minute.
So yes, Symantec you are correct when you say it will install in 52 seconds, but the outrageous and so far true claims do not end there. They also claim it uses less than 7MB of memory.
I again found that hard to believe when previous versions of Norton were known for using as much memory as your system could spare. But Norton literally is only using right now on my system 4 MB of memory, and get this not even 1% of the CPU.
I am simply blown away; in fact I am in love with Norton now and probably will recommend it to everyone and their mama, after years of recommending the free version of AVG which is bloated to hell and the free version of avast which confuses the crap out of a lot of novice users, I guess I will start throwing in a recomendation for Norton now. There is a saying, you pay for quality. Well when it came to AV Software that saying in my opinion did not apply until now.
I just ran a virus quick scan and it took 45 seconds, windows one care takes nearly 2 hours to do a quick scan on my system, and I like that the virus definitions are updated every 30 seconds or so automatically so you have the latest up to the minute protection.
Here are some screen shots from the installation of Norton Internet Security 2009.
It installed so fast that my fingers weren’t fast enough to catch a few of the screens. The longest part of the installation was activating it and that just took 5 seconds.
To get your copy and for more information visit Symantec.
Comments: (54)
keriman on Wed, Feb 11th, 2009 at 09:08 AM
thank
Moni on Tue, Feb 24th, 2009 at 12:51 PM
This is an inspiring blog,It’s particularly encouraging.I definitely enjoying every little bit of it. Glad I stumbled into this.
Ravi M Chowdary on Tue, Mar 10th, 2009 at 11:55 AM
Thats really true. Previously its like a nightmare to use Norton. Now I installed NIS’08 in my XP operating system. Recently I upgraded my laptop to Windows7 and installed NIS’09. Its really awesome. Folks give a try. You will surely fall in love with it.
Peter Hill on Wed, Jun 17th, 2009 at 09:49 AM
I have an account with Norton, fully paid up to December 2009, but they recently decided to cut me off, disinherit me, ignore me, excommunicate me, stubbornly refuse me any entry, refuse to let me in through their impenetrable barriers, block me totally from accessing any means of communication with them, call it what you like. I can’t even RE-REGISTER as a total stranger. When trying to re-register, THEN I am told they already know my email address, and they tell me to use ANOTHER email address. I don’t HAVE another email address. I don’t WANT another email address.
But every time I boot up the computer I get dire warnings that I have switched off this and that security device, and that I should restore them. Trying to do this I get nothing but
demands for PAYMENT for whatever I want to restore of what I have already paid for.
I don’t suppose this moan will produce anything either. This will be blocked too.
Any comments?
Paul on Fri, Jun 19th, 2009 at 07:15 PM
Yes, it may install on a clean machine that quickly but it took me two hours of wasting time to get mine installed. I had Norton IS 2009 and the subscrip ran out. It didn’t say that now when your scrip runs out the whole program shuts down (unlike in the past when it still worked but the defs were outdated.) I tried 3 times to resubscribe on Nortons server which all failed so I ordered the cd. Got it in and the install would just die. No error, just didn’t do anything. Tried to uninstall the old NIS2009 and THAT just died - click change/remove and NOTHING. So Now I am running the Norton Removal program and it has been running for 30 minutes so far. What a CLUSTER F***!
All that said Norton worked great for the last year.
Ivy on Sat, Jul 04th, 2009 at 01:31 AM
When u buy it does it work right away or u have to wait till something comes to the house?????
Michael on Sat, Jul 04th, 2009 at 11:30 PM
@ivy it depends if you bought the CD or downloadable.
dante on Sat, Jul 11th, 2009 at 06:48 PM
i try to activate my Norton anti virus
jerry santos on Fri, Jul 17th, 2009 at 05:18 AM
i wnat your product plz assist me
Moo on Fri, Jul 31st, 2009 at 06:27 AM
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I cannot updaye my norton anti- wirus.Product Key - VQMKH-QF2F3-JR2RX-GQCHY-RVWKW
Emo on Tue, Aug 25th, 2009 at 10:43 PM
That what I needed to protect my pc from viruses.
Thanks for sharing!
Internet Protection on Thu, Aug 27th, 2009 at 12:20 AM
I think this would be “good” for an update but this just for the first time norton will have its fast and less resource program. I think this version will have more bugs..well, hope this make a change for symantec
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software development london on Wed, Oct 28th, 2009 at 05:36 AM
Quite inspiring,
This is really impressive, but it makes you think how effective it can be running an install in 52 seconds and only running on less than 7mb…
Keep up the good work
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טכנאי מחשבים on Wed, Nov 04th, 2009 at 05:50 PM
This product with WIN XP slows everything down to a crawl to the point it takes 20 seconds for the screen to refresh. (You can watch your screen slowly build like a SSB Slow Scan video.
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The Therapist on Sun, Nov 15th, 2009 at 03:23 AM
I bought CD copy of NIS2009 with SystemWorks 12.0 and Ghost online instead of renewing my 2006 System Works with AV again after having some trouble online during 2008 annual renewal.
Doug Embrey on Mon, Nov 16th, 2009 at 04:08 PM
I think this reply was instigated by Norton or a sympathizer, as I have seen this message response before. I still use Norton, but I think they make false claims about installation time, because they don’t advise one on eliminating current norton products before installing their updates.....and they know they are misleading buyers.
paul on Sun, Jan 10th, 2010 at 04:29 PM
The Norton helpdesk facility is great
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