Pros: – Cheap – Easy to install – Tons of features Cons: – Bugs you all the time about features you haven’t set up – Local app doesn’t seem to do much – Takes over simple windows functions and calls them “features” Overall Review: I tried this item out for review purposes and have very mixed feelings about it. As far as what you’ll receive, it’s just a card with a code on it to sign up for the Norton 360 service. The card I received said “Must activate by no later than 12/31/2021 and it let me activate anyways. Upon installation I had a new tray icon which constantly bugged me to set up all the features of Norton 360. You can really tell once Norton bought LifeLock the shift from physical device production from viruses to more online privacy type protections. Overall this product might be a great fit for less tech savvy folks who just want all the features offered here, such as VPN, monitoring, virus protection, cloud backups, parental controls, etc. For anyone who actually knows their way around computers, most of the features listed by this product already exist as free products which are well known. Or even built into Windows itself. As something of a “power user” myself, I found it intriguing to take a look at stuff like their Dark Web Monitoring, but ultimately found that it’s no more than a list of publicly available information, packaged up in this “oooh ahhhh your dark secrets are out there falling into the hands of evildoers” kind of way. E.g. I had a big red screen saying my information related to dropbox was exposed to the dark web in 2016, followed by nothing more than a bulleted list of best practices. Well it’s publicly available information that dropbox had a data breach in 2016 where 68 million users had emails “compromised”. What does Norton expect me to do with this information in 2022? It literally tells me to change my password. It’s just pointless and remedial information. Some of the alerts were even as vague as “your email was exposed on a list on the dark web”. Ok, now what? Norton encourages you to enter as much of your personal information as possible. Bank accounts, credit cards, phone, address, driver’s license, etc. Honestly there is no way I would ever consider dropping all that information into one place like that. Especially when there appears to be no real benefit. Norton does have the “Identity Advisor” which can help you actually resolve identity theft issues, but that is not included and presented to you as a purchasable option. Same with the “Privacy Monitor Assistant” which basically auto sends emails to the website with requests to remove your data. I cannot speak for the VPN, password manager, or cloud backup services as I flat out did not want to give them my information in the first place. Overall I struggled with this review as I can definitely see the benefit for a much less tech savvy user to get all these things lumped into one product. But for the power user this is an annoyance and waste of time. So basically I’d give this 4 stars for the folks who really need all these things and don’t want to figure out how to set up the better versions of services. Then I’d give 1 or 2 stars for anyone reading this who knows how to set up their own VPN or cloud backup or password managers.

Pros: – The card is a hybrid of paper and plastic and is quite durable – The product key on the card is well protected and it won’t be easy to scratch it while it’s on a store shelf Cons: – The scratch zone does not scratch as-expected (there’s more than a few reviews about this) – It required so much force to scratch through the covering that I ended up scratching off the last few characters of the code – Norton support would not give me a new code, could not provide me the final characters of the code I have, told me the card was expired since it said activate before the end of 2021 (I received it late 2022), and said all of this after having me upload pictures of the front and back of the card even after explaining the code was ripped and providing the partial code Overall Review: – Had this been usable, I planned to test the VPN functionality from Linux and iOS – Newegg support was more helpful, but could not provide me an additional key at the time – I would not recommend using a coin to scratch the product key