Well we get the good and the bad, but SYMANTEC have lost it!
If you need a stable computer and value your time, do not use any of their products, I am a software and hardware reseller and I have had nothing but problems with their software. It is not the fuctionality of the product as that is quite good, but the system crashes and other problems that it causes is not worth the good points.
Ghost works OK but causes many system problems and hangups, one major problem in Ghost 10 is if an XP pro user shares his disks and directories with other users then all shared devices will after a while not be accesable to anyone on the network, Gives error "contact the administrator you do not have permisions" and in the windows event veiwer it gives an error that parameters in the registry need increasing, but doing this does not fix the problem and Microsoft Support can not dertermine why, After having several systems doing this and spending many hours I found the common denominator -- Norton Ghost 10 -- after uninstalling Ghost all problems solved. and the above is not the only problem with Ghost affecting the system.
Another Symantec problem that causes many errors is WinFax Pro, an excelent Faxing program but a cause of many system crashes and hangs.
As for Norton Antivirus, lets not even go there !!!
I no longer sell or recomend their products as they ignore any recomendations and never reply to emails. One big issue with the clients I sold Norton antivirus is if they have slow network conections or send large emails there system does not like outgoing mail scanning, so go to client turn off outgoing mail scan, charge client for call and guess what, Norton consistanly complains that the system is not secure and user is promted to FIX, and viola! another call is logged for email crashes, and client is charges once again to turn off outgoing mail scan. Do you think they will even take note!!! Surely the client should have the right configure as they deem nessasary with maybe one warning during the config change.
Also Norton Antivirus seemingly has the ability to disable itself if the updating thinks it may be a duplicate instalation, so protect your Serial code and do not leave the number lying around as staff tend to write it down and then install at home. Symantec are paranoid and this causes unhappy customers, and does not stop piracy. It's afterall piracy that made norton popular and moreso made Microsoft the defacto operating system.
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