Specific tools can be turned on and off easily without diving into the configuration settings. The configuration settings page itself is always one click below the main page.
The interface also offers a pop-up dialogs to explain specific terms, although thorough explanations of the choice users have in changing the settings is still lacking. In the lower left-hand panel are two bar graphs representing the overall Windows resources used and one for the specific resources used by the Norton product.
Compared with the resources used reported within the Task Manager in Windows, we noticed a slight sync problem between what Windows reported and what Norton reported for the overall system. Symantec confirmed that while Norton AntiVirus is looking at the Windows Task Manager, it is doing so at different intervals. We like the transparency, and think the presentation here is better than the line graphs used in some other security applications. Should you want line graphs, an icon will reveal how the system and Norton CPU usage has been since the system was last rebooted.
Features Norton has, in the past, included some sophisticated technology from its enterprise products, which is good because it's cutting-edge, but it's also bad, because it doesn't necessarily integrate with the product, nor is it necessary. In Norton AntiVirus , they seem to have found the right balance. Whitelisting, the buzzword of security products for , is included, and by marrying it with other technologies, Symantec makes it more suited for the user. Files on a whitelist are deemed trusted, and thus do not need to be scanned as often.
Not all "safe files" make it onto the whitelist. For those, Norton uses a community process, called Insight, similar to that used by other security products such as Haute Secure. The thinking is that if thousands of other people are using this suspicious file, chances are it's not a new piece of malicious software but a new application.
On the other hand, if only a few are using it, then maybe it's worth it to take another look to see if it's malicious software. Malicious software signature updates are provided much faster, in some cases within five minutes of the last update.
Gone is the awful LiveUpdate component of past Norton products. With products, Symantec is providing antimalware definition signatures every few minutes or so.
On the interface, you'll see a notice indicating how many minutes since the last update. We didn't see definitions older than four minutes in our testing. Missing still are the various security utilities provided in other products, namely McAfee VirusScan. We would like to see, for instance, a secure file eraser or the capability to trace potentially malicious IP addresses within Norton AntiVirus Nor is there any mobile-specific security solution provided within Norton AntiVirus In third-party, independent AntiVirus testing using live viruses, Norton products have scored in the upper ranks, although not always in the top position.
In a test scanning a single folder with compressed and media files, Norton AntiVirus came in at seconds, which was the upper end of middle. Best Malware Protection. Best Virus Protection.
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