Symantec’s latest Mac product, Norton SystemWorks for Macintosh, is an uber-bundle of essential utilities every Mac owner should have. The package includes Norton Utilities for Macintosh 6.0, Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh 7.0, LiveUpdate 1.6, Aladdin Systems’ Spring Cleaning 3.5, and Dantz’s Retrospect Express. While Utilities and AntiVirus are clearly the headliners, the whole set will keep Mac users' hard drives running without viruses, fully optimized, backed up, and free of broken aliases and bloated Internet cache folders.
If you’ve ever used either Norton Utilities or AntiVirus, you will feel at home the first time you fire up SystemWorks. You’ll find old standbys such as Disk Doctor, Speed Disk, and FileSaver in their allotted slots. SystemWorks’ main window also includes LiveUpdate, Norton’s Internet updating software, as well as Norton AntiVirus.
Early adopters of Mac OS X Public Beta will be happy to know that SystemWorks supports Apple’s new OS. You can use SystemWorks’ drive and virus utilities by booting up directly from the CD or from a Mac OS 9 partition.
Power users also have a new way to optimize their drives, thanks to Speed Disk’s new optimization profiles, which support games, video capture, or any other function that uses the hard drive intensively. For example, we use an external VST 8GB FireWire drive on our 450MHz G4 for both our archive and our working files. Before we optimized this heavily fragmented disk, it took almost 3 seconds to open the average Microsoft Word file. A General Use optimization cut that time to just over 2 seconds, and a Recently Used Files optimization almost instantly opened the majority of new files and took just over 2 seconds to open the archived work.
Most of the other SystemWorks tools resemble their version 5.0 counterparts, but you get a few new goodies. For your maintenance needs. Disk Doctor’will let you force-rebuild your desktop by deleting the current one. You can now rebuild directories from Volume Recover and repair, optimize, recover, and wipe free space on volumes from a Norton contextual menu.
Although there aren’t a lot of Macintosh viruses, they are out there — and Symantec has done a good job of making AntiVirus the definitive inoculation. Not only will AntiVirus work on your OS X partition, but it will also scan email attachments for viruses and repair these files for you. Also new to version 7.0 is a contextual menu for scanning or repairing a virus, and the ability to scan compressed files. One small but very convenient change allows you to install new virus definitions without restarting your Mac. As a preventative, a new AutoProtect feature can repair infected files as they open.
No Mac owner should be without a good disk-maintenance tool and virus protection. SystemWorks offers an excellent combination of solid tools at a very competitive price. Norton AntiVirus and Utilities alone are worth the price of admission, but adding Dantz’s Retrospect Express (for backing up your files) and Aladdin Systems’ Spring Cleaning (to trim the fat and cleanse the detritus from your drives) rounds out this one-stop box for your utility needs. If you don’t have protection, buy it. If you already have a copy of Norton Utilities 5 and AntiVirus 6, you can probably skip this upgrade unless you are running OS X Beta.
Sanchez, Rick. (February 2001). Norton SystemWorks 1.0. MacAddict. (pg. 55).
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