Norton SystemWorks™ Premier Retail Price US$ 99.99 C$ 105.83

Blocks viruses and spyware. Diagnoses and fixes problems. Permanently removes Internet clutter. Physical exam of the hardware. Defragments and optimizes hard drive. Prevents virus-infected emails.

Norton SystemWorks is the end result of literally two and half decades of work, starting with the original Norton Utilities for MS-DOS in 1981, combined with the premier antivirus program, Norton AntiVirus, the standard that other antivirus programs are compared against, first released in 1990. Norton SystemWorks Premier extends that with Ghost and CheckIt Diagnostics.

Norton SystemWork Premier has everything you'd expect from a total system maintence solution. It contains an undelete utility for files that slip past the Recycle Bin, such as ones that get deleted over a network. It contains Norton Speed Disk, which Microsoft themselves has purchased and rebranded for some of their defragmentation needs. There's even Norton System Optimizer, which lets you tweak many settings that Windows doesn't, in an easy-to-use interface, and Norton Cleanup, which removes unwanted Internet clutter, temporary files, and private information about Internet activity.

And it comes with Norton GoBack, which lets you almost magically run time backwards on your computer. Have you ever install the wrong software and suddenly conflicts are happening everywhere? Have you ever deleted a file, cleared the recycle bin, and realized that you probably needed that? Rewind your actions and it's like it never happened. You can even rewind at set intervals, like every morning at boot up, which is a feature designed for public kiosks and business computers, but nothing stops home users from using it.

The original Norton Utilities was an essential tool to the serious computer user two decades ago, and two decades of constant improvements have happened since. And the original Norton AntiVirus was just as essential one decade ago, and that's even more important tool to a serious computer user.

Norton AntiVirus is the premier antivirus program, the standard that other antivirus programs are compared against. From its release in 1990 for MS-DOS, Norton AntiVirus has constantly been improved and updated to catch any and all threats that show up.

First, it detects and removes any existing infections. Then, as you operate your computer, the real-time protection scans every incoming email and each and every file you execute, constantly looking for viruses and other malware. It even looks inside zip files and other archives. You can set it to clean files without even prompting you or other computer users, perfect for not confusing computer newbies. It even cleans floppies to protect against boot sector viruses.

On top of all that, SystemWorks Premier comes with Norton Ghost and Norton Performance Test.

Norton Ghost backs up everything on your computer - digital music, photos, financial documents, applications, settings, operating system, etc. - in one easy step. Ghost analyzes your system, and offers "best practice" backup advice. All during the install, or run the easy setup wizard later.

And then, you're done. It will continually back up your computer to whatever you want. Your work consists of sticking in a new CD/DVD every week. It will make incremental backups, which are backups of just changed files, making all but the first image very small.

Norton Performance Test, OTOH, lets you compare your hardware to other hardware, be it to other computers online, or your own computer in a different configuration. It lets you figure out how much faster that new hard drive is, or if that new video driver really helped.

Purchase Norton SystemWorks Premier today to keep your system working at maximum effiency. Or, at minimum, Norton SystemWorks.