Norton Internet Security 2003

by Symantec

Product Details

Product Manual [3.57mb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006FI0N
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 15, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (152 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,398 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Symantec's Norton Internet Security 2003 provides essential protection from viruses, hackers, and privacy threats. This easy-to-use, integrated suite includes full versions of Norton AntiVirus and Norton Personal Firewall to defend your PC against the most common Internet dangers. Norton AntiVirus, a trusted antivirus solution, removes infections automatically, without interrupting your work. Now it scans and cleans instant-message attachments as well as e-mail messages. Norton Personal Firewall keeps hackers out and personal data in. The Norton Intrusion Detection feature adds an extra layer of protection by automatically intercepting suspicious connections. And Norton Privacy Control prevents confidential information from being sent out accidentally via Web forms, e-mail messages, instant messages, and Microsoft Office attachments.

Norton Internet Security also includes Norton Spam Alert, which helps you detect and filter unwanted e-mail. And Norton Parental Control keeps your children safe online by letting you block objectionable Web sites and set up separate Internet access privileges for each member of your household. Automatic downloads keep Norton Internet Security updated against new security threats.

Product Description

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

40 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars 2003 edition: not ready for prime time, October 2, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Norton Internet Security 2003 (CD-ROM)

Ealier this year I downloaded the 30-day trial package for the 2002 edition of Norton anti-virus and later Norton Internet Security. Had no problems whatsoever.

So today I finally purchased the 2003 edition (of the full Internet Security bundle), and I feel like Norton just stole a wad of cash out of my pocket. This after 3 installation attempts and 3 removals of the product.

On the first attempt, the installer offered the option of including "Accounts and Parental Controls", or not. I opted not to include. Big mistake. It later turns out that nothing works if you don't have a supervisor account created, but the installer never mentions this.

Then when you try to remove the product, it won't let you because you have to be logged in as supervisor to make any changes!!! This after the installer completes (so to speak) the installation without creating *any* accounts.

I finally got arount this by going into the Windows 2000 Services dialog and shutting down the Norton Internet Security Accounts Manager service.

After installing again, this time opting not to have the installer scan my hard drives looking for Internet-enabled apps (so the program would just ask me in real time as needed), I had to remove the program because it was blocking all Internet access.

So I installed it a third time, and again, as in the other two attempts, the entire Internet Security feature showed shows up as disabled in the configuration utility, and clicking the command to enable it had no effect. In addition, I could not access any secure Web sites (https://...) so finally I had to remove the package, again.

And Norton expects you to pay if you want tech support from a live human. So, no thanks.

My advice ? If you can get a copy of the 2002 edition, great. Otherwise, consider another product, such as McAfee or even a hardware firewall (Netgear, Linksys, etc). Good luck.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Product, December 29, 2002

By 

R. Stoddard "trainlover" (South Carolina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Norton Internet Security 2003 (CD-ROM)

I purchased this item with trepidation due to all the bad reviews I had read prior to purchasing it. I decided to purchase it anyway due to expiration of my Norton NIS 2002. I installed the product on my Windows XP system without any trouble whatsoever-except that I forgot to remove the Norton Internet Security 2002 and Norton Antivirus 2002 prior to loading this program. The program will not load if it finds a previous version of the programs already installed. I removed the two products by going into the add/remove programs from the control panel tab. After this was done, the software loaded flawlessly. I have been using it for almost a week and it is working fine. I have not noticed any slowdown when searching the net. It has caught several intrusion attempts and some that were not intrusive so I added the one I knew not to be intrusive to the list of computers not to warn me about. The add blocker is working great blocking both pop-up ads and banner adds on web-sites. I have noticed occasionally some pictures will not load correctly, so I turn the add blocker off and then back on after the page loads, but this is rare. I recommend it if you need a software firewall and antivirus protection.

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Definitely a good product, but Install can be troublesome., April 6, 2003

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MixedUpMutt "bp" (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Norton Internet Security 2003 (CD-ROM)

Being a long time user of Norton products on other PC's, when my new PC, running XP Pro, arrived with Norton AV pre-installed with a free 30-day subscription, I was quite pleased. When the subscription ran out, I decided upon NIS 2003 product, as I was also running Zonelabs as my firewall. My first install attempt was a disaster, almost everything locked up and no applications would launch. Finally, after about 2-3 hours of fiddling and research, thankfully, a safe mode reboot and the usage of the XP System Restore facility (run msconfig), I was able to back out my system to prior to the install. Then it took another 3 reboots to fully get rid of the NAV 2003 install, including having to go into the Services function to stop the system portion of the product. After that, the re-install of the NIS product went fine.

The Firewall configuration was a breeze as well.

So, if you are running any Norton product at all, be sure to uninstall EVERYTHING and check your task lists that everything is really uninstalled. If you don't, your will run into problems --- which will be very daunting to a novice user.

All in all, a good product --- just be very careful if you are currently running ANY anti-virus or firewall product.