Norton Systemworks 2005 Premier - 5 Pack

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Product Features

• Norton System Works 2005 Premier Minimum System Requirements Windows XP Home, XP Pro, 2000 Pro, Me, 98 264 MB of available hard disk space; Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or later; DirectX 8.0
• Email scanning supported for standard POP3 and SMTP-compatible email clients; Supported instant messaging clients: AOL Instant Messenger 4.7 and later; Yahoo! Instant Messenger 5.0 and later; MSN
• Norton Ghost 2003 for Windows 98/Me and Norton Ghost 9.0 for Windows 2000! XP are included in this product; Norton Ghost 2003 Floppy disk drive; Free local partition; Secondary internal or external
• Symantec
• PC

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002TVULW
• Item model number: 10288982
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 16, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 1.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #25,235 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Product Description

Symantec's Norton SystemWorks 2005 Premier gives you powerful tools to solve PC problems and protect your valuable data. Now you can recover data even when Windows won't start up. One Button Checkup makes it easier to select the exact scans you want. Norton SystemWorks includes Norton AntiVirus, the world's most trusted antivirus solution*, which now blocks Internet worms before they enter your PC. Norton Ghost provides powerful backup and recovery tools. Norton Utilities and Norton GoBack help you fix, prevent, and undo system problems. And new Checklt Diagnostics offers a quick, thorough evaluation of your PC's hardware, Get all-in-one care for your PC with Norton SystemWorks 2005 Premier. * Top-selling antivirus software product from December 2000 through April2004 based on The NPD Group's retail Top Selling Business Software list.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

129 of 131 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Great Set of Programs But Upgrade at Your Own Risk, October 14, 2004

By	Bob J - See all my reviews

This review is from: Norton SystemWorks 2005 Premier - Single User [AntiVirus, Utilities, GoBack, Ghost, CheckIT] (CD-ROM)

I have been a user of Norton SystemWorks for several years now. The programs are great. In my experience Norton Antivirus is the best antivirus software program around. Norton Utilities does an excellent job of keeping my computer up and running. While I like these products there is no way that I can recommend Norton SystemWorks 2005. Like some of the other commenters have noted installing Norton SystemWorks 2005 was a nightmare. While I was able to install the other components of SystemWorks 2005 I could not install Norton Antivirus 2005. I had been previous running Norton SystemWorks 2003 and Norton Antivirus 2004. The uninstall program for Norton Antivirus 2004 left so much clutter on my computer that Norton Antivirus 2005 would not install. After digging around on the Symantec web site I was able to discover a link for technical support via email. Symantec's technical support was useless. After a couple days of trading emails and trying their useless suggestions I decided to wipe my hard drive and reloading Windows and all of my software, which actually took less time then trying all of technical support's useless suggestions.

After reloading Windows I was able to install SystemWorks 2005 without any problems. As I said at the beginning its a great program, but if you have a previous version of Norton Antivirus on your computer I would not recommend upgrading to SystemWorks 2005 or Norton Antivirus 2005.

55 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great programs, but extremely painful to install, November 5, 2004

By	MRG - See all my reviews

This review is from: Norton SystemWorks 2005 Premier - Single User [AntiVirus, Utilities, GoBack, Ghost, CheckIT] (CD-ROM)

I recently purchased Norton SystemWorks 2005 Premier to upgrade from Norton SystemWorks 2003 and Norton AntiVirus 2004. There are definitely some major improvements in the programs, especially in Norton Ghost, which no longer comes as an MS-DOS based program.

However...

The installation for this was VERY painful. During the first installation, I received numerous errors, after which it claimed it had completed successfully. After rebooting I kept getting an error message saying that NavEmail.dll was missing. Uninstalling and reinstalling did not help. Symantec technical support was of no help. Eventually I ended up deleting all Symantec registry keys and manually deleting all Symantec software from my hard drive before reinstalling and getting everything to work.

I write this review as a software engineer, one who is technically savy, and I have never had as much trouble getting a program to install as I had with this one. I doubt average Joe User would be willing to deal with this pain.

Symantec has some serious work to do in their Software Q/A team. Either that or their marketing team was too forceful in releasing a product that was not ready for prime time.

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars SystemWorks 2005, October 13, 2004

By	Satisfied "George" (Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Norton SystemWorks 2005 Premier - Single User [AntiVirus, Utilities, GoBack, Ghost, CheckIT] (CD-ROM)

System: Athlon 3000+, 512 meg ram, 160 gig HD, Windows XP Home SP2.

Checked the Symantec FAQs which say that SystemWorks is compatible with XP SP2, so I bought it.

Loaded SystemWorks 2005, which uninstalled my NAV 2004, and could not access the internet. The instruction book does not contain any instructions to configure SystemWorks and does not list any trouble line telephone numbers. It only says to go on the internet for troubleshooting help. Since I couldn't use the internet, I was stuck.

Had a friend go on the internet and get a trouble number, which would cost $30 for help. Called the number (1-800-927-4019) and listened to music for 3½ hours. No one ever answered; thank goodness for speakerphones.

Uninstalled SystemWorks and still didn't have internet access. Tried to reinstall NAV 2004 but apparently SystemWorks left residue so NAV 2004 wouldn't load. Tried to reinstall SystemWorks and it wouldn't install either.

Had to use manufacturer's recovery disc and reset my system back to zero and then spend two days reloading, updating and configuring all of my applications.

Will never again buy another Symantec product. The support is non-existent.