I guess the subject says it all: Has anyone bought Norton Systemworks 3, and
if so, what's your opinion on it?

From a FAQ on the Symantec site it looks like the latest and greatest fixes
the B-Tree Clump Size problem, and I was wondering if the latest version
fixes some of the problems with NSW 2, or does the disk fix thing more
reliably.

Also am wondering about Anti-virus, and if that works nicely.

I had to pull NSW 2 due a kernel panic in fink and later to sleep failures on
my Powerbook 2000 G3, and am hoping that Symantec has gotten their act
together so I'll have more than one diagnostic utility and an active
antivirus agent (as in received mail attachments).

So ... anyone take the plunge yet?

-- Verne

--
It's not what you don't know that'll hurt you - it's what you _do_ know
that isn't so.

In article <0001HW.BBA72CF10001E508F0305600[at]news.usenetserver.com>,
Verne Arase <varase[at]pobox.com> wrote:

> I guess the subject says it all: Has anyone bought Norton Systemworks
> 3, and if so, what's your opinion on it?

I have. Unlike some other people here, I've never had any problems with
Norton, and that inlcudes SW3.

--Michelle

--
Never play strip tarot.

In article <0001HW.BBA72CF10001E508F0305600[at]news.usenetserver.com>,
Verne Arase <varase[at]pobox.com> wrote:

> I guess the subject says it all: Has anyone bought Norton Systemworks 3, and
> if so, what's your opinion on it?
>
> From a FAQ on the Symantec site it looks like the latest and greatest fixes
> the B-Tree Clump Size problem, and I was wondering if the latest version
> fixes some of the problems with NSW 2, or does the disk fix thing more
> reliably.
>
> Also am wondering about Anti-virus, and if that works nicely.
>
> I had to pull NSW 2 due a kernel panic in fink and later to sleep failures on
> my Powerbook 2000 G3, and am hoping that Symantec has gotten their act
> together so I'll have more than one diagnostic utility and an active
> antivirus agent (as in received mail attachments).
>
> So ... anyone take the plunge yet?
>
> -- Verne

Bought Anti-virus yesterday just to run it through the system.
Ran it over the 115,000 files on the hard disk and it produced two
infected files:one an exe. in one of those "Microsoft Patch" e-mails.
(which it deleted) and another on some file (which it repaired.)
I watched most of a movie on TV while that was going on in a G-4 466
It picked up and repaired another infected "Microsoft" e-mail
attachment as it came in today.
It's doing what I expected of it.

- hm

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 15:02:59 -0500, Michelle Steiner wrote
(in message <michelle-61B1EB.13025806102003[at]news.west.cox.net>):

> I have. Unlike some other people here, I've never had any problems with
> Norton, and that inlcudes SW3.

Do you use fink?

--
It's not what you don't know that'll hurt you - it's what you _do_ know
that isn't so.