Found the below article from Hardware Geeks - I have been carefully watching the re emergence of Symantec's Norton products into the fore as the best in class security software it was long ago.
I also received a test copy and was equally blown away - but I loved this post so much it seemed best to just included it in it's entirety:
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Last week I received an email from Symantec's PR Firm, telling me about the new Norton Internet Security 2009. Being fed up with Symantec and their bloated ways over the past couple of years, I normally would have just hit delete.
But before I could hit delete something caught my eye. "Fastest install — Norton Internet Security 2009 installs in only 52 seconds" I immediately said BULL SHIT, who the heck does Symantec think they are trying to fool, no way in HELL does Norton Internet Security 2009 install in under 52 seconds no way in hell does it install in under 20 minutes. I called a few people up and we laughed at that claim.
So after I was done laughing I decided I needed to put it to the test, and make Symantec look like a big liar, so I requested a copy of Norton Internet Security 2009, and over the weekend while I waited for it I joked with a few guys who I know that are network admins and they laughed at the claim too. One of them even said "It will probably ruin your systemin under 52 seconds they mean".
But as the saying goes, he who laughs last laughs the hardest. I hear Symantec laughing really hard right now. I am embarrassed to report that Norton Internet Security 2009 installed on my system in less than 1 minute, in fact if my stop watch was correct it installed in less than 50 seconds. So Symantec I take back all the crap I have said about you guys over the past few years.
It installed so fast that I thought I might of not installed it correctly, so I installed it on a second machine and again it installed in under a minute.
So yes, Symantec you are correct when you say it will install in 52 seconds, but the outrageous and so far true claims do not end there. They also claim it uses less than 7MB of memory.
I again found that hard to believe when previous versions of Norton were known for using as much memory as your system could spare. But Norton literally is only using right now on my system 4 MB of memory, and get this not even 1% of the CPU.
I am simply blown away; in fact I am in love with Norton now and probably will recommend it to everyone and their mama, after years of recommending the free version of AVG which is bloated to hell and the free version of avast which confuses the crap out of a lot of novice users, I guess I will start throwing in a recomendation for Norton now. There is a saying, you pay for quality. Well when it came to AV Software that saying in my opinion did not apply until now.
I just ran a virus quick scan and it took 45 seconds, windows one care takes nearly 2 hours to do a quick scan on my system, and I like that the virus definitions are updated every 30 seconds or so automatically so you have the latest up to the minute protection.
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Here are some screen shots from the installation of Norton Internet Security 2009.
Norton Screen 1Screen 2
Screen 3
Screen 4
Screen 5
Norton Internet Security 2009
It installed so fast that my fingers weren't fast enough to catch a few of the screens. The longest part of the installation was activating it and that just took 5 seconds.
See the original post here
http://www.hardwaregeeks.com/index.php/gadgetblog/comments/symantec_norton_internet_security_2009_to_install_in_under_1_minute/
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