Norton System Works 2006 use able for more than 1 year?

I have Norton System Works 2006. Yesterday I got an error message
saying that my subscription to NSW has expired and must be renewed
(pay more money). I understand that Norton Anti Virus definitions
must be renewed after a year, but must the Systemworks that contain
all of the OTHER utilities also be renewed?

best, Aaron in Sunny but Cold N. Hollywood

Re: Norton System Works 2006 use able for more than 1 year?

aaronep@pacbell.net wrote:
> I have Norton System Works 2006. Yesterday I got an error message
> saying that my subscription to NSW has expired and must be renewed
> (pay more money). I understand that Norton Anti Virus definitions
> must be renewed after a year, but must the Systemworks that contain
> all of the OTHER utilities also be renewed?

What do Symantec Support say?

Yours,
VB.
--
"Pornography is an abstract phenomenon. It cannot exist without a medium
to propagate it, and it has very little (if anything at all) to do with sex."
Tina Lorenz

Re: Norton System Works 2006 use able for more than 1 year?

On Jan 30, 10:17 am, Volker Birk wrote:
> aaro...@pacbell.net wrote:
> > I have Norton System Works 2006. Yesterday I got an error message
I gave up waiting a half hour on the phone to reach Symantec.
Hopefully someone on this Board knows the answer. Aaron


> > saying that my subscription to NSW has expired and must be renewed
> > (pay more money). I understand that Norton Anti Virus definitions
> > must be renewed after a year, but must the Systemworks that contain
> > all of the OTHER utilities also be renewed?
>
> What do Symantec Support say?
>
> Yours,
> VB.
> --
> "Pornography is an abstract phenomenon. It cannot exist without a medium
> to propagate it, and it has very little (if anything at all) to do with sex."
> Tina Lorenz
>

Re: Norton System Works 2006 use able for more than 1 year?

aaronep@pacbell.net wrote:
> On Jan 30, 10:17 am, Volker Birk wrote:
> > aaro...@pacbell.net wrote:
> > > I have Norton System Works 2006. Yesterday I got an error message
> I gave up waiting a half hour on the phone to reach Symantec.

Then why are you using their products?

Yours,
VB.
--
"Pornography is an abstract phenomenon. It cannot exist without a medium
to propagate it, and it has very little (if anything at all) to do with sex."
Tina Lorenz

Re: Norton System Works 2006 use able for more than 1 year?

"Volker Birk" wrote in message
news:45bfafc9@news.uni-ulm.de...
> aaronep@pacbell.net wrote:
>> On Jan 30, 10:17 am, Volker Birk wrote:
>> > aaro...@pacbell.net wrote:
>> > > I have Norton System Works 2006. Yesterday I got an error message
>> I gave up waiting a half hour on the phone to reach Symantec.
>
> Then why are you using their products?

I ran into a similar thing. NSW has a number of nice utilities, but none,
except Ghost, are really all that critical. Unfortunately, for a backup
utility, the idea of it suddenly ceasing to work is totally unacceptible. I
also reviewed all the packaging and nowhere did it indicate that this
package was a limited term lease. That sort of sleazy tactic definitely
puts Symantec on my bad list, maybe even above Sony/BMG on my list of
disreputable companies.

Unfortunately, that leaves me without a decent image backup. I can do
incrementals easy enough a hundred different ways, but a full backup of
Winblows is a major pain. Is there a trustable (i.e. open source) image
backup for Winblows? I can probably come close by adding a Linux partition
and backing up periodically with Windows offline, but that still makes
restore somewhat more painful than Ghost, and a little riskier.

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Re: Norton System Works 2006 use able for more than 1 year?

In article , xpyttl wrote:
>"Volker Birk" wrote in message
>news:45bfafc9@news.uni-ulm.de...
>> aaronep@pacbell.net wrote:
>>> On Jan 30, 10:17 am, Volker Birk wrote:
>>> > aaro...@pacbell.net wrote:
>>> > > I have Norton System Works 2006. Yesterday I got an error message
>>> I gave up waiting a half hour on the phone to reach Symantec.
>>
>> Then why are you using their products?
>
>I ran into a similar thing. NSW has a number of nice utilities, but none,
>except Ghost, are really all that critical. Unfortunately, for a backup
>utility, the idea of it suddenly ceasing to work is totally unacceptible. I
>also reviewed all the packaging and nowhere did it indicate that this
>package was a limited term lease. That sort of sleazy tactic definitely
>puts Symantec on my bad list, maybe even above Sony/BMG on my list of
>disreputable companies.
>
>Unfortunately, that leaves me without a decent image backup. I can do
>incrementals easy enough a hundred different ways, but a full backup of
>Winblows is a major pain. Is there a trustable (i.e. open source) image
>backup for Winblows? I can probably come close by adding a Linux partition
>and backing up periodically with Windows offline, but that still makes
>restore somewhat more painful than Ghost, and a little riskier.
>
Why have a Linux partition? Just boot off Knoppix. dd the disk device
onto your backup media; compressing the image should eliminate the
redundancy of the empty space.

--
Christopher Mattern

"Which one you figure tracked us?"
"The ugly one, sir."
"...Could you be more specific?"