A software deal all Windows users should check out

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I came across this deal this morning, and wanted to pass it along to all Windows DAW users. The System Works package below includes Norton Ghost 2002. Even if you never use any other part of this package (Anti-Virus, Utilities, Ext.) it is well worth it just to get Ghost alone. Ghost lets you make drive or partition images for quick & flawless backups, or migrations to new drives. I very highly recomend the program, and this is a great price for it.

- RW

*** IT'S BACK! NORTON SYSTEMWORKS FOR ONLY $29.99 ***

Norton SystemWorks 2002 Professional Edition is 6 Feature-
Packed Utilities with advanced tools for optimal PC tuning,
protection and performance. Just $29.99 gets you *ALL* of
the following titles and the shipping is also FREE!

---> Norton Anti-Virus, Norton Ghost, Norton Utilities,
---> Norton Cleansweep, Norton WinFax, Roxio GoBack

http://tourbus.com/cgi-bin/go/134
 
After my experiences with Norton products they'd have to PAY ME to even demo it- and I'd only do so on someone else's system!
 
NAV is OK. Actualy it is better than McAfee, which does not coexist well with some other software.
NU is a dangerous thing. Some features are useful when used manually, but in automatic mode it will mess up your system. For one thing Norton Speed disk is faster than that of MS.
Ghost I haven't used, so thank you for info, RWhite.
 
Drstawl - At one time or another I have run into different people who have claimed that every single program on the planet is defective, and wreaked their system. I'm sorry you had a bad experiance, these things can happen.

I had a few PC hard drives that were errased when they were cloned with a NAV 5 directory tree (c:\Ncdtree) that didn't match the size of the destination drive. When the computers then encountered a virus, and tried to restore from the directory, the drives became corrupt. However I cannot blame this on Norton, I can only blame it on myself for not researching the issue before hand.

That one expeiance aside, my company has been using Norton Antivirus on all our desktops, servers, and firewalls and it has worked extremely well. And I'm a huge fan of Norton Ghost. The only Norton product I don't care for was their Crash Guard, which seemed more like a Crash Promoter.

One thing I will add, Ghost 2002 edition does not support network drives, as it is considered the "personal" version. If you are on a LAN you need Ghost 7.5 Enterprise edition.
 
>Crash Guard, which seemed more like a Crash Promoter.

True enough- this one was the app that turned me off on Norton, but I've seen their anti-virus app act like a virus irself!

For those who are paranoid about viral attacks on their DAW I suggest taking the most effective measure known to computer science which is to not connect it to the internet in the first place. Period.
 
That is a good buy for the Ghost alone. I've used ghost, and it works well. Now my system is backed up and I can return to a known good starting point quite easily anytime I fear my OS is corrupted.


Twist
 
if ur running XP or 2000 it comes with a build in system restore that works quite well
 
Considering this forum is supposed to be about recording and soundcards, I don't understand what a deal on utilities has to do with anything but what the hell....

If you take your recording the least bit seriously, Norton Utilities does not belong on a DAW at all. Ever. Never seen a package install so much crap that does absolutely nothing except waste CPU cycles.

The only two tools you ever need on a DAW are a good defrag (Diskeeper) and maybe an antivirus (if your DAW is connected to the NET - Norton AV is cool).

Anything else is wasting space and stealing processor cycles from your DAW and your work in progress.

Cuzin B
 
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