Norton AntiVirus 2010

Norton AntiVirus 2010 Compatible Devices Review of Norton AntiVirus 2010: Norton AntiVirus is the world's best-selling security program. However, its performance has been scrutinized over the years - especially from those in the tech community. Symantec began to address these performance concerns with their 2009 version last year - let's see if this trend continues with Norton AntiVirus 2010...1) Installation:  Norton AntiVirus 2010 quickly installs in only 54 seconds and requires no system reboots. With its Download Manager and Installation Wizard, Norton is now one of the easiest Anti Virus programs to install. Long gone are the days when Norton used to take 20+ minutes to install and required multiple reboots to install (4-5 years ago). (See Installation Time Comparison Graph)2) Features & Ease of Use:   Norton 2010's user-interface has a similar look & feel to last year's version. However, it builds upon previous versions with several new features such as Norton Download Insight and Norton File Insight which warn of dangerous downloads and files which may be threats. Norton System Insight offers details of your computer's resource usage so its performance can be improved. While Norton's scheduler automatically delays updates, scans and other tasks until your computer is idle - this idle time usage should make Norton Antivirus 2010 even less noticeable to users than it was before. Also new this year, laptop battery life is conserved by delaying many tasks until the laptop is once again plugged in. On top of this are the many graphs and reports that Norton 2010 has added this year - allowing it to better inform its users of their computer's performance than previous versions did. In many ways Norton has moved closer to the feel of Kaspersky Antivirus with its abundance of charts and graphs that clearly show users their computer's performance in an easily understood visual format. Overall, a great improvement to Norton's feature-set this year. New Features:     � Norton Download Insight, File Insight, Threat Insight, System Insight,and Norton Insight Network     � SONAR�2 Behavioral Protection Features Checklist: Anti-Spyware Anti-Rootkit Bot Protection Email Scanning IM Protection Trojan Protection Worm Protection Anti-Phishing (available with Norton Internet Security) 3) Virus Scanner:   Norton has 3 scanning options: Quick Scan, Full System Scan, and Custom Scan. Our testing found Norton's Virus Scanner to be very quick - scanning at a pace of 19.5 MB/s, which translates into scanning 50GB of used hard-drive space in just over 43 minutes. This was the 2nd fastest Virus Scanner that we tested this year (just behind Avast Antivirus). Also, the Quick Scan feature scanned our test computer in only 27 seconds, so when you want to reassure yourself after visiting a suspicious website you can quickly do so. (See Scan Time Comparison Graph) New scanning technologies this year include Norton Insight Network (based on Quorum technology) and SONAR 2 (Symantec Online Network for Advanced Response). These features are designed to detect whether a file is trustworthy or not based on behavioral and cloud-based data. This should result in Norton being better able to identify files as being trustworthy or untrustworthy that would have previously fallen into the grey/unknown category. Only time will tell how these new features perform. Updates: New last year (Norton 2009) was Norton's new Pulse Update feature that automatically downloads new Virus Definitions every 6 minutes on average (over 200 updates per day). This new feature gives you the most up-to-date protection of any antivirus program available - over 10 times more updates than its nearest c

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