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This group contains the parental controls, identify safe, browser protection, safe surfing and download intelligence modules.

Email Protection - Email Protection protects your computer against the threats that you might receive through email attachments.

Intrusion Prevention - Intrusion Prevention scans all the network traffic that enters and exits your computer and compares this information against a set of attack signatures.

Smart Firewall - Smart Firewall monitors communications between your computer and the other computers on the Internet.

One element that seems to be missing is an overview of all the computer or network connections. Configuration options for the firewall are divided into several menus. A settings link is provided here as well that leads to the options for the listed modules. Network Protection consists of the Smart Firewall, Intrusion Prevention and Email protection modules.

SONAR Protection - Symantec Online Network for Advanced Response (SONAR) provides real-time protection against threats and proactively detects unknown security risks on your computer.

Antivirus and Antispyware - Security risks, such as spyware and adware, can compromise your personal information and privacy.

Insight Protection - The Insight Network scan uses the Cloud technology wherein a remote server on the web contains the latest virus definitions.

This includes configuring exclusions (good for false positives for instance or files that should not be accessed by Norton Internet Security), real-time protection features and scan performance profiles. Modules can be turned on and off in the settings but there are also advanced options available. It is here for instance possible to enable Microsoft Office Automatic Scan to protect Office documents.

The settings are extensive and contain several optional modules that are not activated by default. It contains additional links to running a live update, accessing the history and quarantine, start a scan and to open the settings. The remaining subscription days and links to the Norton account, help and support and feedback are provided in the main interface as well.Ĭomputer Protection consists of the four modules Insight protection, antivirus, antispyware and SONAR protection. Norton Insight uses a trust level, resource usage and Norton Community Usage as indicators for a file's rating. It will for instance rate all running processes, startup items, loaded modules and even all files so that it is possible to get a quick overview of the danger of certain files. Here it is possible to see their impact on the computer system with an option to start any of the background tasks right away.Īpplication Ratings is a very interesting module that displays Norton Insight information about files and programs of the computer system. Other links in the main interface lead to Norton Tasks which displays a similar performance graph and the background tasks that are configured in Norton Internet Security 2010. The two most notable changes are a concentration on lower resource usage which was already noticeable in last year's Norton Internet Security but becomes even more apparent in this year's.Īdditional improvements are the new behavioral detection engine Quorum which uses a cloud based reputation system to identify threats and offers faster response times to new or mutating malware threats and additions to Norton Insight which has now been split to the four areas Download Insight for better control of file downloads, System Insight for system diagnosis, File Insight for file analysis and Threat Insight. Symantec's Norton suite has seen dramatic improvements in the last two years. The only element that it does not offer is a backup module which Norton reserves for its flagship product Norton 360.

#NORTON INTERNET SECURITY 2017 REVIEW SOFTWARE#

One could say it is an advanced version of Norton Antivirus 2010 as it contains all the antivirus protection capabilities of that software plus additional means of protection that include a two-way firewall as well as network, email and identity protection.

#NORTON INTERNET SECURITY 2017 REVIEW WINDOWS#

Norton Internet Security 2010 is a security software for the Windows operating system.