Norton SystemWorks 2002 includes Norton AntiVirus, Norton Utilities, Norton CleanSweep, and GoBack. Norton SystemWorks 2002 is easy to install and easy to use. It also comes with an extensive user manual to help with any questions that you may have.
For those of you who already own earlier versions of Norton SystemWorks, there are several new features this year that may convince you to update your version. Norton SystemWorks 2002 has One-Button Checkup, which allows you to preschedule your updates with the stroke of a key, and the new Process Viewer to help you solve system problems by displaying all files that are running at any given time. Norton AntiVirus 2002 will now repair virus infections automatically and now has Script Blocking features. All of the classic features of Norton AntiVirus 2002 are all still there, including automatic updates whenever you connect to the Internet.
Norton SystemWorks 2002 is an excellent suite of products for the everyday user. For those of you who enjoy performing your own computer maintenance, you would still benefit from some of the features that protect you from what you may find on the Internet, and from what you may not know. Furthermore, Symantec's online technical support is superb. Symantec also offers a 60-day money-back guarantee if you're not satisfied. --Kendra Hayden
NAV seems to work OK with Win XP/Office XP. No complaints.
Now, about Ghost:Day 1 - Ghost needs to run under DOS, not Windows. It creates a boot disk. The boot disk uses PC DOS. PC DOS will not boot on a Compaq. You need to use MS DOS. Where can you get that nowadays?! I finally downloaded and installed Caldera Open DOS. That will boot, at any rate. Ghost won't recognize Open DOS, but with enough tinkering, you can get it to install on your pre-formatted boot disk.Day 2 - I want to back up across the network. Ghost creates a network boot disk. But, the driver for this Compaq doesn't work. (Shame on me for buying a Compaq!) Hours of Web searches, Symantec, Intel, and Compaq tech spport, finally get a driver that loads. Yay!Day 3 - Just because you can load a driver doesn't mean that you can mount a network drive. The network support in Ghost is to clone one PC running Ghost to another PC running Ghost. I just want to back up to another PC, not wipe it out with a copy of this one. Does anybody remember DOS networking? Symantec is no help. More hours of struggle to get this working. Luckily, I use a similar backup scheme at work, so I can cannibalize their boot files.Day 4 - I run Ghost and it can't see the network drive. For that you need the Enterprise edition. You are out of luck. Just because I'm too stubborn to give up, I download a trial version of the Enterprise edition. It can see the network drive, but fails to complete the backup when the compressed dump file reaches 2 Gb. "Please insert another volume," is not a good message to see when you are in DOS and backing up to a network drive.
Summary: I should have bought a stand-alone version of Norton Anti-Virus.
