JohnPlymouth wrote:
I just became a Comcast internet customer and already have the latest version of Norton Utilities (6.0) installed. Is there any reason why I should download Constant Guard? Does it offer anything else the NU 6 doesn't have?
Hi JohnPlymouth,
First of all please tell us which Norton program you are really running. Open the main page of your product, click on Support and then on About from the drop down. Please tell us the full number of the version.
The reason I am asking this is that Norton Utiliities (6.0) is a program from somewhere around 2001 (or earlier) vintage and is in fact not an antivirus program - but more of a system tuneup type program.
Once we know which Norton product you have installed we can advise you as to what your options are.
Also in regards to Constant Guard, confusion reins supreme as Comcast has elected to call everything seucrity related Constant Guard. There is the Constant Guard - which stated out as a Bot detection program and then Constant Guard Protection Suite (CGPS) was added, which includes various components from various manufacturers and also duplicates some of the Norton Security Suite (a clone of Norton 360) which is also included as part of the CGPS, or Norton Security Suite (NSS) can in fact be downloaded and run without the rest of the CGPS - as some folks are doing.
That said in answer to your question - do you need to download Constant Guard, please tell us which portion you are asking about?
I'm sorry it sounds so complicated, but that is what happens when the marketing type folks want to brand all of a cable company's security offerings by the same name when all it does is confuse the users.
Please let us know which Norton programs you are cutrrently running and we'll go from there.
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