Norton 360 Premium 2023, Antivirus software for 10 Devices with Auto Renewal - Includes VPN, PC Cloud Backup & Dark Web Monitoring [Key card]

I have been using Norton for years as it offers a decent set of anti virus apps. However, the annual renewal process has always been very annoying in one way or the other. Their current scheme goes like this: - To purchase Norton 360 online you must have auto-renewal set to on. - More than one month before your license expired, they auto renew for a much higher price than if you would purchase the app suite new (~3 x more! - $115 instead of $35) - I did not get notified about the impending auto renewal a month ago, but only found out today, when I wanted to turn off auto renewal I think this is not a great business strategy, because it seems borderline like a scam. Instead of rewarding long time customers, Norton is deceiving and taking advantage of them. So if you buy a license only make sure that you pretty soon after turn off auto-renewal.

9/22 update and new 3 star review - I just wasted an hour screwing around with a logon to a long time financial site on my iPhone due to the Norton VPN. I was at the gym and I activated the VPN (at Nortons urging) and I set it to turn off automatically when using a safe wifi like the one at home. The VPN did NOT turn off automatically and it prevented my logon to the long used financial site. I uninstalled and reinstalled the financial app, restarted my phone and tried a few other tricks. The App would NOT work. Then I remembered the Norton VPN and once I shut it off, the financial app worked fine. The Norton VPN slows data down to a crawl and can cause issues like I just described above - it can be very annoying to use. Original 4 star review - For a new account, this Norton 360 Platinum product key from Amazon is a great deal, no issues or complaints. For $30, it’s awesome and thanks Amazon for the opportunity to get a great deal. I like the Norton password vault, most of the features and functions but there is one part that of the Norton experience that is challenging - adding this key card to an existing account. My review for this key card for a new account is 5 stars but I give it 4 stars overall because as I mentioned, the process for adding this key to an existing account is annoying and can be time consuming and the VPN can be a pain. I’ve had Norton since 2008 and the renewal “game” has become increasingly challenging. Norton wants you to auto renew your existing subscription and then upcharge on the auto renew - by a LOT. In this case, this product key is $30 and the Norton subscription renewal price is $114.99 as of the writing of this review - September, 2022. Norton used to have 2 and 3 year subscriptions. That’s all gone. They also had a far easier way to renew years ago months before the end of the subscription and that was right on the Norton account page. Not anymore. I suspect Norton relies on folks to forget about their auto renewal agreement and they get charged full retail price. There are all sorts of tricks and games required to buy this $30 key card from Amazon and use it as a renewal for an existing Norton subscription renewal. Read the reviews and you will see all manner of approaches to avoid getting hosed by Norton. It can be done but it’s not easy or quick. My process is to go online with the chat folks on the Norton site who will assist you entering this key for a renewal. There is no pricing squabble because you already have the Amazon purchased Norton key in hand - that saves some time. I was very polite with the overseas service folks and very careful not to click on any link too fast even when the service person asked me to click on them. I asked many polite questions along the way and after about 20 minutes, we had it sorted out and my existing subscription got renewed by 12 months with this Amazon purchased key which saved me about $85 over the “auto renew” price. You really don’t have a choice - either buy this key from Amazon for $30 or get “auto-renewed” by Norton for 4 times as much, your choice. Hope that helps! PS - Norton also tried to upsell constantly. They want you pay list for Lifelock, constantly send out fear sales notifications that your account is at risk from the dark web, any and all data incursions worldwide and spammers. Its a constant attempt to grab cash. Be prepared.

A bit confusing to add to my existing but Norton Helpdesk provided excellent support and assistance.

Does it work for stopping viruses? Probably. But Norton has become a virus! The problem is that several times a week I have to close ads on my desktop from Norton. They use scare tactics about other data breaches to try to upsell your subscription. I turned off the option for adds from them and they still pester me.

Installation, easy on Windows. Terrible on MacOS. Credit required, not good. Seems to get all the common computer virus out. Its pretty cheap. Now the bad... holy molly, what happened to this antivirus software? Its an adware!!! every few days, I get some reports where a fix is to buy more subscription. I click on do not show again, and it shows again in a few weeks. I am done with this program. In addition, this software doesnt work well on MacOS. Seems to block everything on MacOS. I gave up and uninstall from MacOS. Think Ill just go with Windows defender and whatever antivirus my ISP provide. This after 30 years with Norton.

When I installed the CODE for this item, it popped up that it could NOT BE DOWN LOADED. It gave me a PHONE NUMBER to call. When the person answered he said he was NORTON SECURITY AND I HAD A Virus!! Since it was a NORTON PRODUCT I TRUSTED him. He got access to my computer and was searching ALL MY ACCOUNTS! Luckily I had a GUT FEELING this was a SCAM, so I shut my computer off and proceeded to buy a new computer and change ALL MY ACCOUNTS and PASSWORDS. Do NOT BUY FROM THIS SITE. I reported it to Amazon Fraud Dept. and was refunded my money.

I have always been a Norton fan when it comes to the protection of my PC. I also use many of the features available besides the antivirus. It amazes me that Amazon sells Norton much cheaper than you can buy it from Norton. As long as that is the case I will choose Amazon every year.

If you have any previous years versions of (Windows) Norton Internet Security and Norton VPN, please DELETE them!!! Because the installation of this resurrected Norton 360 does NOT! If you dont, you probably will have to waste a lot of time trying to diagnose problems. I went on the Community Forums to find this out and that I needed to download and run Norton Remove and Replace too. Also, if you have Malwarebytes, be sure to disable it when installing N360. For 2019, Norton changes their main products, and these products are different for retail than on Nortons website. One finally installed, it works great. One note, that upon any start-up or reboot, it takes considerable longer for initial for N360 to initialize on Windows desktops and laptops. Also, dont have the built-in VPN on the Start Programs. Just use it when need it. Ive been using Norton for many years. If it werent for the setup issues, I would have given it 5 Stars.

On the first computer, Android phone & Android Tablet, it was easy to install after removing my Expired versions of older Norton Security. They do NOT make it clear you should Uninstall any older Norton Security apps. For some reason, it was much more difficult to remove Norton Security and Norton Scan with the built Uninstall buttons that came with those older versions. Had to get latest version of NRnR to Remove from the 1st & 2nd PC. Not a quick or smooth process. New Install on other devices was done using the Add a Device email invitation process for all devices after the 1st PC. Found out the next day, that even though the software is on all 6 of our devices, only 4 successfully registered on our new Norton 360 subscription. Waited on the phone for 24 minutes on one call then gave up. Waited 15 minutes for a live chat, then got someone who didnt understand what I was clearly saying in English. Then got transferred to another Tech support Chat with a waiting line of 5-9 minutes. 35 minutes for nothing. Gave up on that too. If you want Norton Tech support, you have to be willing to wait online or on the phone for more than a few minutes. The software does work well but hoping I have no other Tech support needs. Do not expect to talk quickly to Tech support person in the US.

Have been using and trusting Norton Anti-virus for over 20 years. Great technology, seems to work. That is the key reason I have renewed every year. Indeed, the top three reasons is that their anti-virus software seems to work. However, I hate their idiot user approach. Tells me I have a possible virus in one email out of thousands in my Thunderbird email folder, and do I want to quarantine the entire folder? Absolutely NOT. Can not toss away thousands of messages. They should provide info, such as the message sender, subject, date & time. hate the renewal policy. After installation, if you allow them to auto renew another year, the cost is several times higher than a new purchase with a new serial number. Just buy new, get a virtual credit card from your bank with a $ limit, and use that for the required auto-renew data. Mixed feelings, but overall recommended because their anti-virus software works. The bonus feature of cloud backup is nice. Recommended as part of a safe computing strategy.