Yea, it is a subscription service. You can use the one subscription on three computers. I use it here on xp and it seldom requires any attention. It just does its own things silently in the background. Every now and then you will see a bubble saying its up to date. Updates itself automatically and frequently.

Hi Mikie, It is just the plain Norton Antivirus, no bells or whistles. In other words I do not have the Security one. In 2008 I was told it didn't have a firewall and later found out that it did. I just booted up tonight and the shield did not pop up at all and so the windows firewall is on. What I did was do a check disk and a defrag and now it is not popping up. That was weird. Still I think Norton might have had something to do with it as they have been known to have a firewall and not state it on the box. I know it is not good to have two firewalls going at the same time but since they do this stuff and don't inform the public I can't be sure if they changed their minds on this version and put one in with their updates. That is if they can do that. The intrusion prevention says that it automatically blocks internet attacks aimed at taking advantage of vulnerable programs. Detects and prevents attacks from threats already on an infected computer. It has antivirus, antispyware, advanced protection which says Intelligently monitors processes in real time to detect suspicious behavior and emerging threats. Uses Nortons SONAR technology. It has email message scanning and Norton Insight, which speeds up the scanning process and increases computer performance by identifying trusted files that do not need scanning. I just ran it and it says trusted 86 percent and scanning 14 percent. It also catches trojan horses like last year. It is a lot more fancier looking than 2008 and is very impressive looking but like you said I agree that they keep people in the dark about their product. It shows on the list of not having a firewall but their security one does have a firewall. Since they block incoming stuff that made me wonder about the firewall being stopped by Norton. Do they are do they not have some type of firewall and they call it something else. Your guess is as good as mine. ??????? thirdfrt!!!

OK, I used Zonealarm for years until it seemed to clash with Windows XP SP2. This seemed to be an irritant for a minority so I still promote the Zonealarm firewall. Then I moved to Comodo and I am happy with that too. Anti virus, I have used AVG, AntiVir, aVast and Comodo all with no issues. Except AVG decided it was not going to allow my OE to send or receive emails a few months ago, again this happens to a minority of users. Why have I used all of those? Simple, I help computer users in the flesh and online occasionally so I felt I needed to know how each worked from my own stand point. Running 3 confusers 24/7 allowed me to use a variety of programs at the same time. All those are free, I have never paid for protection yet. I believe you will find all companies involved in virus protection talk to each other to form a common front against a never tiring enemy. Some reports have the enemy winning the battle sadly.

Raven, This is what Jotti had to say: Service load: 0% 100% File: ashampoo_firewallpro114_sm.exe Status: OK MD5: 28fe60f9448c79a322c7e7a8a21e534f Packers detected: - Scanner results Scan taken on 03 Oct 2008 16:31:43 (GMT) A-Squared Found nothing AntiVir Found nothing ArcaVir Found nothing Avast Found nothing AVG Antivirus Found nothing BitDefender Found nothing ClamAV Found nothing CPsecure Found nothing Dr.Web Found nothing F-Prot Antivirus Found nothing F-Secure Anti-Virus Found nothing G DATA Found nothing Ikarus Found nothing Kaspersky Anti-Virus Found nothing NOD32 Found nothing Norman Virus Control Found nothing Panda Antivirus Found nothing Sophos Antivirus Found nothing VirusBuster Found nothing VBA32 Found nothing So All of these says it is noting to worry about it?