[X Newbies] Norton SystemWorks 3.0 for Mac?

[David Crandon]

uhh...it seems that Albert is a little hotheaded. Obviously a bone to 
pick.

You'll find many people who will tell you of bad experiences with 
Norton. There are many more people who've never had a problem with it. 
This includes me. I've used it hundreds of times on about a dozen 
machines with it never causing a problem.

Unfortunatley he is wrong regarding the "adapted" from windows thing. 
The program is designed from the ground up. You can't "adapt" a low 
level repair program for a completely different operating system.

However, it wouldn't be the first program I'd buy, it would be the 
second. The first would be DiskWarrior. Although they do completely 
different things.

An easier way to search for the products aside from Google is 
http://www.versiontracker.com

Also, I'm not sure why he needed to insult you.

David Crandon


On Tuesday, November 11, 2003, at 09:51  AM, Albert D'Amanda wrote:

>
> On Nov 11, 2003,, at 12:12 PM, Paul Korntheuer wrote:
>
>> Can anyone recommend Norton's SystemWorks for Mac 3.0?
>
>
> Not at this site!
>
> Norton  Utility for the Mac is "garbage" .
> There is NO tech support.
>  It was designed for Windows and  "adapted(?) for macs
> "They" cannot be bothered with the  ~ 5% mac user guys.
>
> In my case, all Norton ever did was to corrupt the data on my  hard 
> drives  with mucho headaches to recover.
>
> I recovered with the following Utility software:
>
> * <Disk Warrior> to be able to reboot
> * <Drive 10 > to "optimize"
> * Virerx  for virus protection/check ***
>
> ***I consider virus protection  low priority. None of publicized 
> viruses have ever affected  my Macs.
>  I have never experienced any virus attacks in the 10 years operating  
> Mac desktops over the internet at my  home site  , from OS8  to OSX. 
> But since I do own a copy,  I turn it ON every now and then.
>
> As for the $ and cost effective issue ( you talk  like a bean 
> counter); remember that in the computer Software Utility world there 
> is no free lunch!
>
> Find the URL Links for DW & Drive 10 using your Google search engine 
> for specifications and info.
>
>
> Albert
> Dual 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4 (FW800)
> 1.75 GB DDR SDRAM
> OS Panther 10.3
>
>
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