Norton AntiVirus Review

Norton is certainly a popular name in the antivirus market due to its powerful scanning mechanism, real-time protection, and regular updates. This blend is present even in the Norton antivirus that offers comprehensive solutions for protecting your system from all types of infections without taxing the resources.

The installer is quite efficient to take only some seconds to set the system for protection. Above all, there is no need of restart, an action that was essential in the past. After installation, the software runs quietly in the background.

Features

This antivirus smartly helps to deal with both old and new security threats, both online and offline. It comes with a few new and improved features as compared to its former versions for rendering the basic protection level. Admiringly, there are many features for safe Web surfing and e-commerce transactions.

Comprehensive Scans

Apart from protecting the system from spyware and malware, the software is capable of scanning e-mails, instant messages, and online downloads to remove infected attachments, viruses, and risky links. It features four scanning modes namely, Custom, Full System, Quick, and Reputation, of which the Full System takes some more time and resources to assess each file for safety.

A new introduction is the Facebook Scan that monitors your Facebook wall to check the links, newsfeeds, and updates. Usually, all scanning options work quickly and efficiently due to the cloud-based virus definition database.

Sonar

The software warns when you unknowingly download a risky attachment or application by checking them against a list of known threats. Further, it has built-in tools to analyze the suspicious file or program behavior to detect and remove malware. This is done with the help of new feature known as Symantec Online Network for Advanced Response (SONAR).

SONAR detects new threats, assesses the running processes, and monitors incoming and outgoing communications for sensing and removing anything that matches with the malware profile.

Network and Web Protection

Norton Antivirus has all the features and tools to keep online malicious files as well as attacks at bay. This includes anti-spyware, browser and email protection, intrusion prevention, anti-phishing, anti-scam, anti-identity theft, and Download Intelligence that monitors file transfers on the go.

If you are having a home network including 3G one, the Network Defense Layer takes care of your devices on it. Those who heavily surf the Internet will admire the Browser Protection feature for receiving alerts about suspicious sites irrespective of the browser or search engine in use.

Other Packages

Norton also offers other products such as Internet Security for complete online safety and Norton 360 for comprehensive online and PC protection. Antivirus sits in between these two products.

Conclusion

Norton Antivirus with the implementation of latest technologies such as cloud is bound to protect you from any kind of threat. However, it still has scope for more security features. 

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