Norton Systemworks 2009 Premier Edition

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Product Features

• 12.0 CD RET 1U

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B001FSXIEG
• Item model number: 14200726
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 10, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,122 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

Product Description

Norton SystemWorks Premier provides fast, continuous protection against malicious threats, backs up everything on your PC, and boosts your computer's performance. Working quickly and quietly in the background, the included full version of Norton AntiVirus 2009 software has been completely re-engineered and sets a new standard for speed in its defense against viruses, spyware worms, bots, and other malicious threats. Rapid pulse updates and new Norton Insight utilize extensive online intelligence to target only those processes at risk, resulting in faster, fewer, and shorter scans. The new Norton Protection System employs a multilayered set of security technologies that work in concert to detect, identify, and block threats. The included full version of Norton Save & Restore 2.0 uses powerful disk imaging technology from Norton Ghost to create full system and file backups. If disaster strikes, you can quickly restore from system failures and recover lost or damaged files. Incremental and differential backups reduce system slowdown by backing up only files that have changed. And advanced compression and encryption minimize storage space and help keep sensitive documents safe. Norton SystemWorks utilities boost your PC's performance and keep it running at an optimized level. The utilities tools diagnose and fix Windows errors; defragment, clean, and repair hard drives; and remove unwanted Internet clutter such as cookies and web files. System Optimizer allows you to customize Windows settings according to the way you use your PC, and Process Viewer shows applications that are running to help you identify programs that are affecting performance.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A little faster thant SystemWorks 2005, January 26, 2009

By	R. A. Wheeler "Ron" (California, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I upgraded thinking that my "old" 2005 version just HAD to be running out of gas. Most of the features are similar to the old. Defrag runs at about the same speed and looks to be the same. Antivirus is MUCH better and checks the Symantec web site about every 15 minutes for updates. It doesn't scan the whole file system any faster than it used to, however. What threw me was that they hid Ghost. When I go to the Symantec toolbar on the installed programs menu, it says "empty". Well it is still there but it is called Backup and Restore. But don't turn loose the whole Backup and Restore with its schedule unless you are prepared to wait a LONG time every few days. Backup and Restore take its piece of the machine from the top and everything else running appears as slow as Molasses!! And the "compare" it makes with the previous backup is glacial. After half an hour and 3% completed, I cancelled it. It would have taken all night at that speed!. So I used the hidden Ghost to still do backups but I do it just like I used to. I manually do it every two weeks, and I save the previous one as well as the new on my external hard drive so that I always have two to fall back on. From what I can tell (haven't tested it) the Recovery CD that comes with SystemWorks will still boot from the CD drive for real disasters and it should "unwrap" my Ghost backup to a new hard drive if that ever became necessary. This time I installed Checkit and it seems great. I had forgotten to in 2005. All in all a solid product once you tell it who is boss!!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Installation failure, May 28, 2009

By	Leonard J. Sparks "ljs" (CC, TX) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Let me start out by saying that I'm a Software Engineer with over 25+ experience and have been working with PC's since IBM came out with their PC1 in the early '80s. While I'm certainly not an expert, I have installed my share of software over the years. In fact, this would be the 3rd version of Norton's SystemWorks (NSW) that I had installed on this PC.

As required, I uninstalled NSW 2006 using the Windows Add/Remove feature. I then installed my new NSW 12.0. Everything seemed to be going well until I ran the Live Update on the NSWs side. I had previously run it on the Norton AntiVirus side - they seem to be more disjoined in this version of NSW than in previous versions - and it worked as expected. On the NSWs side it failed utterly.

After several attempts to get it going on my own, I gave up. I then logged onto Symantec's support chat feature. The first tech spent about an hour and finally admitted that he could not help me and that he needed to turn me over to a NSWs expert. The NSWs expert tested Live Update and decided that the installation was corrupted.

His solution was the thing that nightmares are made of... . After running the Norton Removal Tool (nrt), he totally removed all of the Norton directories from my hard drive and removed all appearances of Norton from the Registry.dat file - this is the file that defines your PC. It took him about three hours of very hard and dangerous work. Dangerous because one mistake in the Registry, could have required me to reinstall my operating system and all other software on my PC, which is something that you never want to have to do.

Norton SystemWorks 12.0 now works on my machine, but I do get an odd error message when I boot the system: Access blocked: Drive C.

Along the way, he removed my Norton's WinFax Pro even though I had told him not to remove it early on in the process. This is the faxing software that I have been using for ages. It cannot be reinstalled on my computer. So I have gotten the latest in system protection at the lost of a favorite program. Norton no longer makes a fax program so I can't just buy an upgrade. I think the cost was too high.

One final note: the tech told me that I would have to do the same thing if I were to upgrade from NSWs 2006 to NSWs 12.0 on another PC. You can believe that I will not do so.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Product for 9 years, February 2, 2009

By	Errol J. Dillon (Mississippi) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This product is off the chain. I have been using it for years. If your pc is working & you are not having a problem, you will love this product. If your pc is broken then you need to get a tech person to fix it fast. Then put Norton System Works to work on your pc. So many people have serious problems & then put this on your pc. Wrong! This is a product to keep your pc in running shape. If your pc has the minimum ram of 512 you can run this program. Although I would recommend at least 1 geg of ram for a any system. The more ram the better. I have used this products for years & other tech people have told me that Norton is too heavy on the system. I know its heavy on your system. I also know that if you follow the instruction with Norton System Works you will not have any problems. I have never had a problem since I have been buying this product. People who have problems with this products are not doing something right. I have put this product on over 100 pc's & never had a problem. All of the pc's are running just fine. This is a great product. I think it's unbeatable. You might just say when it's not broke, why change horses after 9 straight years of perfection. Take my advice & get at least 1 geg of ram to start. The best think about Norton is that it works in the back ground. The free stuff that is out there is not really free. Have you ever heard of anything that's free & really does a wonderful job. Air isn't even free any more. There is always a catch with free anything. You pay for what you get.