Norton AntiVirus

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Norton Antivirus 2010 is the latest edition of Symantec's well-known antivirus software. A full-featured PC security and antivirus suite, Norton Antivirus provides full protection from malware, PC viruses, and files and applications affecting PC performance.

Utilizing a new reputation-based security system, Norton Antivirus 2010 goes beyond standard definition and behavior-based virus detection to deliver a level of protection that's tailored to each and every individual user. With a variety of virus detection and performance modes, Norton Antivirus 2010 is a worthwhile antivirus suite for home users and professionals.

Building on Norton Antivirus 2009's user-friendly interface, Norton Antivirus 2010 includes some new visual features and navigation options. While new users will no doubt appreciate the enhanced interface, old users will feel right at home as Norton Antivirus 2010's interface is, on an operational level, very similar to last year's version. Features are easily accessible and PC security can be controlled from the software's control center.

Norton Antivirus 2010 uses a range of different methods to check for and eliminate PC viruses and malicious software. Files are reviewed against built-in virus definitions and malware templates, and are also checked for unusual behavioral patterns or system requests. Going beyond these two standard antivirus measures, Norton Antivirus 2010 also checks viruses against a dynamic online archive of virus information, collected from users' PCs and virus reports.

This focus on ongoing dynamic virus detection ensures that Norton Antivirus 2010 can eradicate viruses from the moment they spread to users' PCs. Rather than having to wait for a software update, users are protected from viruses all the time with Norton's web-based detection system.

Gamers and power users will be pleased to know that Norton Antivirus 2010 includes a range of different performance and protection options. Software can be reduced to background monitoring for PC gamers, allowing them to preserve and improve PC performance during gaming, without having Norton compromise speed or available memory.

While Norton Antivirus 2010 delivers a smooth and improved experience, there are still some nagging issues. Scanning speeds can be slow, and system performance often slows to a crawl during scan periods. However, for high-end PC users, these issues are likely to be minor. As an all-round antivirus and security application, Norton Antivirus 2010 certainly delivers on its promises.

Norton AntiVirus: What We Liked

• Virus detection is aided by the use of an online reputation-based security system, which eliminates viruses without the need for quick software updates.
• A range of performance modes offer gamers and power users flexibility and minimal resource use.
• Aside from some minor tweaks, the interface is much the same as Norton Antivirus 2009, and offers the same user-friendly navigation and control tools.

Norton AntiVirus: What We Didn't Like

• Performance can be poor during scanning, and virus detection scans can often last unnecessarily long.

Symantec Support

Symantec offer a range of different paid and unpaid support options. Product manuals, FAQs, and a support community are available via their website, while paid Norton Prime Support is available for serious technical issues and customer queries.

About Symantec

Now one of the world's largest software developers, Symantec was founded in 1982. Offering a range of highly successful PC security applications, antivirus suites, and performance tools, Symantec have received praise from industry magazines, Fortune 500 companies, and home users.

     

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Norton AntiVirus 2010 with AntiSpyware leverages a new model of security to attain unmatched detection of new malware and advance far beyond traditional signature and behavior-based virus and spyware detection. Norton AntiVirus 2010 with Anti-Spyware uses extensive online intelligence systems to proactively protect the PC and keep users informed of the security and performance impact of files and applications that they encounter in their everyday online experience.

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Following on the success of the Norton 2009 release, Symantec has made an ongoing commitment to delivering security products that are fast and light. The Norton 2010 products have maintained an eye on performance, in spite of adding significant new protection technology to the release.

Norton AntiVirus 2010 with Anti-Spyware the very uniqueness of a file and its attributes is what helps us identify it as new malware. More than three years in the making, Quorum tracks files and applications and dozens of their attributes such as their age, download source, digital signature, and prevalence. These attributes are then combined using complex algorithms to determine a reputation. As a file is distributed across the Internet and these attributes change, Quorum updates the reputation of the file. This reputation is especially important when a file is new, likely to be a threat, and traditional defenses are not likely to detect it.

The Norton Insight family of technologies in the new 2010 products uses extensive online intelligence systems to proactively protect the PC and keep users informed of the security and performance impact of files and applications that they encounter in their everyday online experience.

Norton Download Insight - Uses extensive online intelligence systems leveraging reputation to proactively protect your PC. Analyzes and reports on the safety of new files and applications before users install and run them.

Norton System Insight - Provides features and easy-to-understand system information to help keep PCs performing at top speed. Automatic and on-demand application optimization rejuvenates application performance. Provides a view of recent events on the computer, providing the information required to research and analyze PC issues. Performance graphs help pinpoint what's causing a computer to slow down.

Norton Threat Insight - Provides details on threats that have been detected on your PC - including useful information on where it came from (the URL) and when it was initially encountered.

Norton Insight Network - Leverages a cloud-based approach unique to Symantec. Based on the Quorum technology, it takes cloud-based security beyond traditional blacklists and whitelists. It uses a statistical analysis of file attributes based on billions of scans on millions of computers to identify the trust level of a file. This way Norton can identify files to be trustworthy or untrustworthy that would otherwise fall into the grey area of the unknown with only traditional security methods.

SONAR 2 - Sophisticated second-generation behavioral security technology that detects entirely new threats based on their suspicious actions, without the need for traditional fingerprints. Leverages data from the reputation cloud, firewall, network communications (IPS), and file attributes such as location on the PC, origin information, etc., to decide when to detect a program as a threat.

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