Someone has given me a new sealed copy of Norton Internet Security (2004) with a validation code on it and I am wondering if there is anything on it which could be of use to me. Does anyone have a view on this? Or is it yet another resource hog which, like their other programs, Symantec sell but don't dare support ?
Do it's antispam features work (90% of all spam I receive gets sent through to my deleted items folder by Outlook already)?
Or do it's security and pop-up blocking features do anything which Adaware or Spybot don't do? I think that at the moment I am using not one but TWO hardware firewalls, one on my Buffalo WiFi router and one on the in-series Linksys router supplied by my VOIP service. Buffalo once told me that there is no conceivable need for a software firewall if you have a hardware one. (But I seem to remember the useful configurability of AtGuard which became part of NIS in the old pre-XP days)
(I have also found that the Multi_AV program is extraordinarily useful)