Norton 360 Platinum 2025, Antivirus software for 20 Devices with Auto-Renewal – 3 Months FREE - Includes Advanced AI Scam Protection, VPN, Dark Web Monitoring & PC Cloud Backup [Download]

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I've been a loyal Norton customer for well over 25 years. No, really! Back when they had first come out with utilities for the old 386 and first Pentium machines. The GAME that they started playing several years ago to rip people off has been so frustrating. They started taking advantage of customers by asking people to renew online directly with Norton. For about 7 times the cost of new software depending on the package and sale price that you could find in the retail market. Then they continued to push the auto renewal by holding back extra features unless you signed up for auto-renew. Then they would take those features away if you canceled the auto-renew. Very frustrating. Their push to make people sign up for auto-renew, even though they already purchased over a year of this software, has become worse and worse. This year when I attempted to enter the key directly into the software, it indicated that I needed to log into the website to setup the code. After entering the code, the pictured page appeared. FORCING everyone that purchases this software from Amazon to SIGN UP FOR AUTO RENEWAL!!!! You MUST agree to their terms and conditions. And if you sign up and don't cancel before your subscription is up, they're not going to just charge another $39.99 like you just paid for 15 months!!! No no no, they're going to charge you $154.99 for only 12 months!!!! That's right. Cutting out the middle man, Amazon, and now they're gonna rip you off! Because that's how much Norton cares about their customers. They need to face a class action suit for this. But, it gets better. I called the toll free number provided on the screen that I showed in the image. Spoke with a kind woman with what appeared to be an Indian accent. She told me twice that the way to activate my product code was to enter my information, including a credit card, then request that the service be canceled, and finally she said she could cancel the service immediately after I entered the info. She was trained to REALLY insist on getting a credit card number entered. A tactic frequently used by SCAMMERS! When I told her no, and that if this was the only way to activate the code, that I would be contacting Amazon and my credit company to dispute the charge, and that I would be reporting this to my State Auditor's office, she suddenly had a method of authorizing the key with no need for me to enter any of that information!!! SO NORTON??? WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS? Surely it's not to rip off your customers right? We TRUST you to protect our systems, but you can't even give me the software before you start trying to reach into my pocket for my credit card?This isn't a new issue, and they are aware of what they're doing. But by giving customers no choice, their making a bunch of money from people that forget to cancel, don't read the fine print and mistakenly trust that Norton isn't going to charge nearly 4X as much as they paid for 15 months, for a simple 12 month renewal. I e-mailed Norton last year when I thought that their actions had crossed a moral line. This year they border on criminal, but I believe certainly constitute a civil infraction. DO NOT BUY THIS SOFTWARE. Look at Norton the same way you look at the scammers that call and pretend that they are Norton. They both apparently want to take money from you that they haven't earned.

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So I am somewhat frugal (cheap) when it comes to certain services on the PC's and devices in my household. I have for years got buy on Avast, Avira, and even recently good ol' Microsoft Windows Defender. Defender or whatever it is branded now is actually not as bad as it was when it initially launched eons ago.Recently, a friend who has used Norton protection for years told me about the 20 device Platinum package on a daily deal from Amazon. I know Norton has had its ups and downs too over the last decade but I believe in the last 3 or so years, it has actually gotten decent again. After doing some research and reading some reviews from PCMag and other Internet sources, and having yet another friend also say he has been using it forever, I took a chance and bought it.Amazon sent me a product activation key and it was no big deal to sign up for a Norton.com account. From there I was able to login and register my key. Sure enough, it gave me 15 months of service so I am good till early April 2022.From the online dashboard, downloading the client for PC was straightforward enough. There is a tiny downloader that they push to you and from there it downloads roughly a 250MB package that installs the client. It appears they do some "magic" because once installed, it was intelligent enough to activate itself and I did not need to log the Norton client into anything. It just activated and registered itself as one of my devices.So I did this with 4 desktop PC's and 1 Dell laptop. All no issue. Now to be clear, from each PC I did have to log into norton.com to get the installer and after each successful activation, the norton.com portal did show a device registered.I also installed the mobile version as well on the 4 Android phones in my household. The norton.com portal had a QR code that my old Samsung Galaxy S9 recognized by just pointing at with the camera. It sent to a link in the google Play store, installed itself and it also seemed to register itself without issue. Setting this up was a little more tedious as the mobile client walks you through finding the Norton 360 service and basically giving it free run of your phone. Again, was not hard. Just took a little time. I did manage to set the VPN to auto so it appears if you are on an open non encrypted wifi the VPN client should kick in and encrypt your mobile data.The remaining 3 android phones were a little more cumbersome. I did the camera trick with the QR code again on my daughter's Motorola G Power and it went to the app in the Chrome browser not Play store. So it wanted me to sign in with her Google account credentials and I did not understand why it did not work as smoothly as it did on my Galaxy S9. However, I did figure out I could just install the Norton 3760 mobile app directly from the Google Play Store app. When launched, it asks you to sign up and subscribe or just login in. Logging in with my existing newly created norton.com account was sufficient and the mobile app was sufficient to activate the phone. I did this for the remaining 2 phones. Just downloaded and signed into the Norton 360 mobile app. Didn't bother with QR code. Setting up the remaining 3 phones was the same. Just let the Norton 360 mobile app tell me to give permissions to the Norton 360 service on the phone, set them all to Auto VPN. Done.So installation and set up was easy enough.I used Live Update on the PC's and watche dit update virus definitions and patch the client.I played some with the VPN. I have 1Gb Fios. The Norton 360 PC client has a place to turn on the VPN. Just a toggle On and it says the connection is secured. If I did a "What is my IP" in Google my IP address was definitely different than what my Verizon Fios IP was. Matter of fact doing a lookup the IP range I was on appears to fall into Amazon Web Services ranges. Also going to speedtest.net it said I was coming from Amazon. Speedtest.net had me connect to some west coast server. Speeds were around 300Mbps up and down. So seemed plenty quick.I looked a little at the Firewall. I do have some holes punched in the Windows firewall on my PC's for various servers. Filezilla, Minecraft, Serviio come to mind. While I figured out how or so I think I have, to manually add custom rules to the Norton firewall, I have not had a chance to see if I can get my custom ports configured correctly and working. Not that I am an expert of any sort, but I was fairly competent at getting the proper holes punched in the Windows Firewall. Guess we will have to relearn Norton firewall.My son absolutely refuses to let me install it on his desktop gaming PC and his laptop. HE is kind of paranoid that it will break his game servers and such too. He still runs standard Microsft Defender.To be honest, I never really had an issue with virus infection. Granted I do not do anything overly risky online. I try to be diligent about phishing emails and things that just look sketchy. Still, I received an email spam once that had a partial password in it threatening me to pay bitcoin or else alleged pictures of me looking at unscrupulous material would be emailed out to friends and family. While I do not have a webcam pointed at me at any given time and I do not look at such materials anyway, I was more concerned about the spam having a partial password. The scrupulous individual claimed he used a keylogger. So my concern was did my freebie AV solutions not catch the keylogger? Which machine was compromised? What did I even do to get compromised? So I figured like I said before a paid solution may be better than a free one.Just because I am paranoid does not mean that they are not out to get me.Lastly, I am concerned about the renewal process. So you have to sign up for Auto Renewal. My referring friend advised me that come Holiday season 2021 I should be on the look out for another holiday deal for Norton. Whether it be an extension of the current product, a new product or what not. I guess renewal at Norton rates is in excess of $120. However, if I can get another holiday discount, I can sit on that key and say a week or two out, cancel auto renewal. Then when the current license expires, just enter the new key into my norton.com account. My friend advised me he has done this method for years. Only caveat he said is that if you enter a new license key into an existing subscription, it will destroy your existing license, forfeit any remaining time on that license and start the new one.In this day and age with Google Calendar and Alexa to remind me about things months away, I am confident I will "remember" with help to stop auto renewal. You need to keep the auto renewal enabled so that Norton will honor their Antivirus promise. As it is now that I am actively subscribed and auto renewal enabled, I do not see any place to enter a key anyway now. I suspect this will change either when I shut auto renewal off and/or my current subscription expires.Hopefully after having 15 months with the product I will have a better feel for its effectiveness and value. As of now I have 9 out of 20 devices activated.Maybe I will update this review periodically as it has a chance to gestate on my devices.

Dislike: too many pop-up adsExcellent protection and easy to use. Norton seems to be the best protection program out there.The basic set of features is sufficient to protect your computer. The ads are for more features that most people do not need.

My wife refuses to give up her ancient iPhone 6s. Apple is no longer supporting it so it needed extra protection. 20 Norton licenses it 10 more than I'll ever need but it was the most cost effective option that would support >8 devices.Installing it on phones and iPads is dead bang simple. Shoot the QR code on the device, enter the account ID & password, let it install and follow the configuration script. You can also download the app from the apple or play store, or directly from a browser.So far I've done 3 IOS devices and 2 Windows computers. Not a single 'hitch'.