Norton Antivirus Review - How Does Norton Antivirus Compare?

 
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VB100 Awards for Detection of All In-the-Wild Viruses in the VB Test Sets Without Any False-Alarms
56
50
39
16
46
Missed In-the-Wild Viruses in Virus Bulletin Tests between May 1998 and June 2009
0
29
64
70
34
Proactive Protection by AV-Comparatives
56%
35%
25%
No Data
50%
Proactive Test by AV-Test.org on 1-Month Old Signatures
68%
26%
30%
27%
24%
Boot Time Overhead Percentage by AV-Comparatives
12%
26%
70%
No Data
50%
File Access Lag Time
0.02 MB/s
0.04MB/s
0.08MB/s
No Data
108%
Commit Charge
100.63 MB
186.3 MB
157.93 MB
No Data
156.12 MB
Application Startup Time
1.94 seconds
3.1 seconds
3.74 seconds
No Data
2.17 seconds
Boot Times
157 seconds
229 seconds
187 seconds
No Data
168 seconds
Price
$39.99
$39.99
$39.99
$39.95
$39.95
 

Product Overview

Norton Antivirus provides fast, responsive defense against malicious software like viruses, trojans, spyware, worms and other kinds of threats to your computer. It protects your system without slowing it down. Rapid pulse updates you every 5 to 15 minutes to ensure that you are protected from the latest threats.

What You Get

Once you purchase a subscription for Norton Anti-virus, you will get free updates and upgrades for the product within your subscription period. Every installation of Norton gives you protection against virus, trojans, worms, spywares, bots, rootkits and other threats. It also gives you advanced protection that can block browsers, OS, application threats and infected websites. It can also help in protecting your identity by blocking phising sites, securely managing your login and personal information, guard you against keyloggers and authenticate popular banking and shopping websites. Norton can also help protect and secure your home network and secure your PC or laptop when accessing public wireless hotspots.

Company Behind It

Symantec was founded in 1982 and since then has evolved to become one of the biggest software companies in the world. They provide security, storage and systems management solutions to their customers.

Cost

Norton Antivirus costs $39.99 for a one-year subscription and $74.99 for a two-year subscription.

Trial Version

At the Symantec website, you can download a free, fully-functional trial of Norton that works for 15 days. You simply have to enter your name, country and e-mail address to download your free trial.

Why I Like It

The current version of Norton Antivirus has been slimmed down and is faster compared to its predecessors. This means that Norton does not eat up most of your system’s resources anymore and scanning time is now faster than before.

The new version now includes the Insight feature, it identifies trusted files and applications within your system so that every time you do a system scan, Norton will just skip over these unless changes have been made to the said files and applications. This is one of its unique features that isn’t found in other antivirus softwares.

Do I Recommend It?

Yes. Symantec is one of the leading pioneers in the software security industry and Norton itself has been around for awhile. Each new version, update and new features makes Norton even better so you can be assured that your computer will be safe from malicious softwares and threats.