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Sunday, December 11, 2005 #

I went out today and picked up a copy of Symantec's Norton Internet Security 2006.  I have always been a fan of Norton products, as they are simple to you, and work rather well.  I figured I would try this since I couldn't find much information about it on the internet at all.  I went ahead and tried installing it on a VPC with Additions, and Win XP SP2, and I have a P4 3.0 w/HT CPU.  Needless to say, I tried increasing the Page file, I dedicated 1024 MB of RAM to the VPC, but I still could not get it to function properly.  It started that the installation was so slow.  It took nearly two hours to install the program.  Once it installed, and rebooted, I never got to the Activation section.  It kept locking up and blowing my CPU out at 100%.  I finally decided to can it, and uninstall it which also took forever.  I then installed it on my host PC, whcih worked just fine.  As a host app, it works great and has an attractive layout.  Nice product actually, but just dont try to install it in VPC.  If anyone gets it to run well in a VPC let me know... I would like to know what you did.  I still have yet to try it in VMware... do that later as well as give a review on the features from my host PC... I am going to bed now.