Solved Update to NIS 2012?

[Britton30]

I have Norton Internet Security 2011 and have a free upgrade available for NIS 2012 and I'm wondering if that will be a good idea.
Opinions welcome.

 

[Phone Man]

I upgraded last week with no problems. The Norton Community site have reported a few problems but nothing serious and they are being worked on. It is suppose to have upgraded security so I went with it.

Norton Internet Security / Norton AntiVirus - Norton Community

Jim

 

[Britton30]

Thank you Jim, I went over and read some of the issues and joined too.

 

[Athene]

I always like to wait for a month or two before upgrading to the latest version of NIS. Most new programs have still got a few bugs, and it takes a couple of weeks until they're ironed out
PCMag has listed it as their Editor's Choice
Norton Internet Security 2012 Review & Rating | PCMag.com

You could also just trial it and see if you like it - if not, you can downgrade to NIS 2011 again and wait for a few more weeks.

 

[Wishmaster]

I havent encountered any issues with 2012 here either.
It should be fine.

 

[mart44]

No problems with the upgrade for me.

 

[whs]

Gary, did you ever upgrade and what is the word? I am still waiting in the wings - I am coward, LOL.

 

[Phone Man]

The latest version is 19.1.1.3. You are required to run Live Update a few times with required reboot to get this updated version and also the update for tool bar for FF 7.0.1

Jim

 

[Britton30]

Gary, did you ever upgrade and what is the word? I am still waiting in the wings - I am coward, LOL.

Me too Wolfgang, I'm still with 2011. The Norton forums people are still reporting some issues with Insight protesction and Auto update for two things.

 

[whs]

Gary, did you ever upgrade and what is the word? I am still waiting in the wings - I am coward, LOL.

Me too Wolfgang, I'm still with 2011. The Norton forums people are still reporting some issues with Insight protesction and Auto update for two things.

OK, I think we should still wait until this is all cleared.

 

[mart44]

The Norton forums people are still reporting some issues with Insight protesction and Auto update for two things.

But then again, problems will always be reported with any version. Issues certainly kept being reported in the Norton forum all the time that the 2011 version was current ..and with the versions before that one. So if you wait for issues to stop coming, the latest version might never get installed.

It can't be guaranteed that problems won't occur but I think for every poster reporting a problem, there are probably thousands of people running the 2012 version without issue. They don't post to say that though. The nature of support forums is that it's only people with problems who are likely to post in them. The happy majority don't have reason to.

 

[whs]

mart, you got a point. On the other hand, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. 2011 seems to work very well, so there is no urgency to change.

 

[Britton30]

Before my motherboard died I did install/upgrade to NIS 2012 and it was working well for me. I only had three days of use though.

 

[Athene]

Hi Gary,
If Norton is displaying the wrong number of subscription days after activation with your product key, you can try syncing your subscription with the Symantec server by opening NIS 2012, going to Support and clicking on Subscription Status. If that still doesn't work, then you can contact customer service for free via your Norton product or the Norton homepage.

 

[Britton30]

Hi Athene, you misunderstood. I only had three day's use because my computer "broke" I did get the full remaining, 130 or so, days on my subscription.

 

[Athene]

Ah, okay, everything clear :-D

 

[HammerHead]

Nis 2011

Here is one with no problems. Mine upgraded to 2012 and has never missed a beat. Maybe a month ago, I forget. But it has been awhile.