Resell Norton Anti Virus 2009

[ClickRight]

Does anybody know how I can easily become a reseller of Norton Anti Virus 2009? Steve from podnutz daily is a reseller, and made it sound easy to do, but he will not disclose where he's getting his licenses from. Can anybody shed some light on this?

 

[14049752]

Ugg...why would you want to? Resell a better product like Kaspersky Internet Security or NOD32.

 

[ClickRight]

Ugg...why would you want to? Resell a better product like Kaspersky Internet Security or NOD32.

Have you Tried Norton Anti Virus 2009? It's actually a decent product, and because it's a well-known name it makes it easier to sell to customers.

 

[14049752]

I have tried it, yeah. I still don't think name brand alone is reason enough to sell it.
I remember someone on the forums putting it like this:
"Everybody knows McDonald's, but that doesn't mean it's the best burger."

I get my antivirus software from Purplus.com

 

[navigatorrs]

I sell Trend Micro PC Cillin 2009. My customers love it. Norton is a PC Techs nightmare,IMHO!

 

[RyanMeray]

I tried to get a reseller account with ESET, but I don't do enough volume to buy it directly from them, and I have to go through one of their wholesalers. It didn't seem worth the hassle for the measly profit margin they were talking about.

 

[ClickRight]

I sell Trend Micro PC Cillin 2009. My customers love it. Norton is a PC Techs nightmare,IMHO!

I haven't used PC Cillin 2009 yet, that's something I'll have to look into. Most of my customers are using older versions (2006 and 2007 IIRC) and running into some issues.

As for the Norton comment, have you tried 2009? I know how terrible previous versions where, believe me.

Norton has been, is , and will always be a technicians arch nemesis in my opinion, it's bloatware x 1000.

We resell for ESET and some months we do NOT do more then a few sales of their product. Our sales rep is awesome though, and he gives us tons of leads for business clients.

We refuse to sell or resell any software or hardware we don't fully believe in or support 110%. I truly believe in and have seen first hand how awesome NOD32 is, thus we resell it. So although the profit margins seem small, It's really the benefit of giving a customer good products and support. Out of the leads too, we get a chance to market our full range of IT services to the clients as well.

I would have completely agreed with you on your first comment before I tried Norton 2009. It's no where near as bloaty as any recent version of Norton. It's quick to install, easy to update, Fast (in loading and scanning) and sure as hell seems pretty user friendly. This is still more of a product I would direct at home users than business, however. I don't believe in selling or recommending products I don't believe in either.

 

[NYJimbo]

I stopped trying to resell software to residential clients, which are most of our walk-ins. Way too often I ended up acting as tech support for customers and it was not worth it.

Now if a customer does not have an antivirus we just install AVG 8.0 free, Spybot, Malwarebytes and HiJackThis. We explain it to them and that's it. So far, so good. No tech support for the programs and it doesnt pad the bill, since most hate paying extra for anything anyway.

 

[mh348]

Norton has been, is , and will always be a technicians arch nemesis in my opinion, it's bloatware x 1000.

We resell for ESET and some months we do NOT do more then a few sales of their product. Our sales rep is awesome though, and he gives us tons of leads for business clients.

We refuse to sell or resell any software or hardware we don't fully believe in or support 110%. I truly believe in and have seen first hand how awesome NOD32 is, thus we resell it. So although the profit margins seem small, It's really the benefit of giving a customer good products and support. Out of the leads too, we get a chance to market our full range of IT services to the clients as well.

I too resell ESET Products and purchase directly from the local (national) ESET branch, there's no minimum amount of license that I'm required to sell.

ESET NOD32/Smart Security are excellent products and we very happy with it.

 

[seedubya]

Sorry mate, but you can't come onto a forum like this ask about becoming a Norton Reseller and expect to be taken either seriously or professionally. It's like an atheist commenting on the Vatican forums - just doesn't work.

 

[Blues]

I put a trial of kaspersky on most machines I clean infections from and about 1/3 of the people went and bought it. Now what about the other 2/3 well about 1/3 of them I didn't ever hear back from so I can't say may just be happy with no problems or angry and upset. For the final 1/3 well they have all comeback with a new infection and some version of Norton and a new subcribtion which usually I just clean the machine how ever it needs to be done and let them keep running Norton to eat up thier computing power. Maybe 2009 version is not as resource hungry maybe it is more user friendly but I have yet to see them release definitions and an engine that actually catch 70% of the viruses out there.

 

[Fireddog]

Don't listen to them. I am going to say this. I have been working in the it industry for years. repairing and cleaning pcs of the loveliness that is Malware.
And once in a great while I mean we are talking blue moon.. a company will make a promise about a product and state a claim that they will achieve with said product and proceed to hit a homerun with it.

I will admit I hated all Norton products with the exception of Norton 360.
It wasn't too bad. I mastered setting it up. Then this past year Symantec's CEO made a promise that they would vastly Improve their software with this years 2009 versions.

so As someone who is previous work installed Norton on a regular basis I decided to use my connections and get a free copy of it. And I tried out...
NIS 2009 and NAv 2009. And no doubt about it they hit a grand slam with them. The memory footprint is small. The install time is lightning quick. The scan times are incredibly fast. The fact it has a pulse update feature where it gets new updates every day practically instead of once a week like their old software means the chances of missing some new variant of the latest trojan is less. Plus the data base they updated for their firewall is definitely more current and it doesn't conflict with alot of the internet using software that the grand majority use.

In every case that I have set up the 2009 product on a customer over the last 4 months I have yet to have 1 issue. Not one. I was one of the busiest Fd onsite techs for the company till we went belly up. My clients are mainly retired folks who have no patience and are extremely demanding.

I wouldn't put something on their pcs I didn't have the greatest confidence in. I am going to infact call symantec in a few days and find out what it takes to become a reseller as well.

Also Around where I live all the local mom and pop pc repair guys.. constantly shove AVG and other Worthless av products down their throats.
And every time I go out to someones home and do a checkup.. sure enough Tons of malware again.

read the latest maximum pc they even gave Norton the highest score and they also noted they never liked norton either.

Note I am currently beta testing the norton 360 3.0 which uses the Same scanning and updating engine that the new 2009 flavors uses and it installs just as fast as NAv 2009. That is an amazing achievement in itself.

 

[Blues]

I will say NAV/NIS 2009 does sound like a great step up but I am not sure I would find it any better then KAV/KIS. I will stick to recommending KAV/KIS I would add that I try to avoid using AVG or AVAST as those have disappoited me but were better then NAV/NIS, or atleast previous installments, but I only do them when the customer is a cheap SOB.

 

[Pc Fixed Right]

What is Norton? McAfee? Two of the worst products IMO. Kaspersky has proven to be better over and over again. I have done scans via slaving the drive that had Norton 360 on it or Mcafee only to find that they missed viruses. If you want to resell than get a techdata account.

 

[Fireddog]

I don't like Kaspersky for the reason that well lets see.. first off
The install time is a friggin chore. I hate the fact that their update system is about as fast as watching spit go up a damn hill. Their scans are not fast.
And the interface is not user friendly. Yes its great for a tech because we could give 2 shits about that sort of thing. But when you have a client and you are trying to build up a nice base of customer who rely on you and trust you .. you really don't want your phone ringing off the hook because you forgot to configure Kaspersky so it doesn't nag them to death.

Mcafee? did anyone even suggest that pile of dung? I know I didn't.
20 years ago Mcafee used to have some of the best Av products out there.
Today? An absolute joke.

 

[Blues]

I don't like Kaspersky for the reason that well lets see.. first off
The install time is a friggin chore. I hate the fact that their update system is about as fast as watching spit go up a damn hill. Their scans are not fast.
And the interface is not user friendly. Yes its great for a tech because we could give 2 shits about that sort of thing. But when you have a client and you are trying to build up a nice base of customer who rely on you and trust you .. you really don't want your phone ringing off the hook because you forgot to configure Kaspersky so it doesn't nag them to death.

Mcafee? did anyone even suggest that pile of dung? I know I didn't.
20 years ago Mcafee used to have some of the best Av products out there.
Today? An absolute joke.

Install time for KAV/KIS might not be the greatest but I know it is no worse then NAV/NIS. Update time thats hard to really judge as it is going to be dependant on the connection however it doesn't have as many big updates as it checks hourly for updates. I have KAV/KIS on the PC of two elderly people and my parents and I never hear from any of them on it. The user interface is just as freindly as any other I have seen they really only need the main page which shows statistics of it and if it has a problem. The biggest problem I had with it was a one time thing and I was onsite when it happened. The PC had to reboot and when it did it wanted to do a CHKDSK so I let it found lots of errors and then when windows booted up KIS said the definitions were corrupted so it updates and it was fixed. I basicly just sat and watched it all get fixed automaticly.

 

[Fireddog]

Trust me.. Our company for Black Friday had us install Kaspersky on over 100 computers. IF We had been given the option install Nis 2009. the install time would have taken a couple of hours for all 100 computers.
For Kaspersky it took us over a few days. Go ahead get a trail version of nis 2009. and Install it and after you do.. You come back here and tell me that it takes as long as Kaspersky. That is absolutely 100% not true. It is a massive difference and the interface is vastly better.

 

[Blues]

I still believe that Norton detection rate will not as good as Kaspersky and the great detection rate I have seen on Kaspersky is one of my main reasons for reccomending it combined with its low system foot print. The bit about install time I will say if I worked alone I could do many of the machines assuming a whole team was working it should be no issue to get them all done in a single day. I can give you my math on it too assuming alone I do about 3 at a time which is not much of an issue and work only 8 hours here is the figures I came up with. I will note this is install only no updates and I figured it at 15 min, 20 min, and 30 min install times and came up with ~96@15min, ~72@20min, and ~48@30min. I know it does not take more then 30 min to install. So if one person can manage to take out 48 in only 8 hours and the store would have been hope for atleast 12 it should not have taken more then 2 days to do them all assuming you allowed other work to be done limiting it to only 3-5 AV installs and then 2-4 stations for all the other jobs. Regardless of all that crap I think Kaspersky after install over all preforms better when I have time I will be happy to try a trial of the new NAV/NIS but I don't expect to find it leaping ahead of Kaspersky in my book.

 

[14049752]

Best argument for Norton Antivirus yet: It installs fast.

 

[lawson_jl]

It very obvious that no one here has actually tried Norton AV 2009. You can go to Norton's website and get a free trial. People really shouldn't comment on a product they have never used, that is being a bad tech all around. Norton's products in the past have been bloated to the extreme but Norton 2009 is very trimmed down and doesn't use much RAM at all about 40MBs or so on all the systems I'll installed it on. It's has little more impact then NOD32 does, it have the same RAM foot print but does use a bit more CPU cycles while actualling scanning. I switched since Norton is a good product and has always been one of the best AV programs as far as catching virus goes. I have a supplier that I get OEM copies of Norton AV 2009 for $15 each plus shipping. It may be the same place Steve from Podnutz gets his. PM me if you would like to have the URL.