Norton SystemWorks/Personal Firewall 2004 Bundle

by Symantec

Product Features

• Keep hackers out and personal data in
• Prevent confidential information from being sent without your knowledge
• Optimize hard disks
• Protect against viruses
• Recover from system problems

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000C8Y0Z
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 17, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,200 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #38 in Software > Networking > Firewalls
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Bundle includes Norton SystemWorks 2004 and Norton Personal Firewall 2004.

Norton SystemWorks 2004:
Symantec’s Norton SystemWorks 2004 is the smartest way to solve computer problems. This easy-to-use suite includes full versions of Symantec products to defend against viruses, optimize hard disks, manage your passwords, recover from system problems, and clean up after Internet sessions. Keep your PC running at its best with Norton SystemWorks.

Norton Personal Firewall 2004:
Symantec's Norton Personal Firewall 2004 keeps hackers out and personal data in. It makes robust firewall protection easy by automatically hiding your PC on the Internet and blocking suspicious connections. Norton Personal Firewall also protects your privacy by preventing confidential information from being sent out without your knowledge.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Norton seems to work now, but I had to build the HD twice, January 9, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Norton SystemWorks/Personal Firewall 2004 Bundle (CD-ROM)

I am running Windows XP SP 1 on a machine with a 2.26 GHz P4 and 1 GB of physical memory.

This morning I installed the Norton SystemWorks 2004/Personal Firewall 2004 bundle. This is the one that has the $30 rebate coupon.

WARNING: GoBack is TOXIC!

DO NOT install GoBack under any circumstances! It will cause your machine to go into an infinite loop in which it repeatedly reboots itself. Perhaps there is a way to uninstall whatever is causing this but I have no idea what that is. I gave up and reinstalled the entire system, which took about 4 hours.

If you install everything EXCEPT GoBack, then you will probably be okay. The first time AntiVirus came up, it reported many exceptions. However the first live update appears to have fixed the problem.

SystemWorks and Personal Firewall seem to be working fine now. I have heard of others experiencing many more problems than I did, particularly with SystemWorks Professional Edition.

On my copy it says that the rebate applies to purchases made on or before 31 December 2004. However I have seen old stock where this date is 31 December 2003. I wonder if it is the software in the earlier box that has the problems that other users have reported?

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No Problems with Norton SystemWorks/Personal Firewall 2004, May 3, 2004

By 

Philipp Kessler (Providence, RI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Norton SystemWorks/Personal Firewall 2004 Bundle (CD-ROM)

I'm not a computer geek - all I want is complete protection against viruses and hackers and Norton gives me just that.
Apparently most of the reviewers have experienced some problems after installing the Norton product, but since I encountered none, I have to wonder if it was the Norton software or something else. Although I have noticed that a decent amount of RAM is helpful in order to prevent Norton from slowing down your computer.
I have been using Norton for the past nine years and never had any virus problems or intrusions on any of my computers. After you install Norton and you can pretty much stop worrying about viruses and hackers. Updating virus definitions is a breeze thanks to "Live Update".
It's just getting better and better over the years. I can only highly recommend this software.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Rebates, May 6, 2004

By A Customer

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Norton SystemWorks/Personal Firewall 2004 Bundle (CD-ROM)

There are two upgrade rebates for this bundle for 2004, one for the Norton SystemWorks, which is listed for this product, and one for the Norton Personal Firewall, which is not, but it is listed under the individual product (Search Norton Firewall 2004).

Combined with the occasional Amazon 'bundle' rebate, you can get this for free. Which, considering some of the reviews, might be what it is worth to you. I haven't had problems other than it slowing down the bootup process, but this was on a fresh install on a new hard drive. It was painfully slow the first couple of days at startup, until XP 'cached' it or something.