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Norton Antivirus

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General information about the program

Norton antivirus is a very popular antivirus program, which offers high level of protection. The latest version of Norton antivirus has reduced performance issues, which were prevalent in the older version. There are better features in the new version and even there are some features that are unique in only this software.

Program features

The program protects the user from different angles and make sure that the user’s computer is shielded from all threats whether offline or online. The new version of Norton supports mostly all the browsers and email clients and so, protects the user while he is browsing online.

It offers signature based protection, which helps a lot in protecting against malware and viruses. Norton updates the virus definitions regularly and so, it has huge knowledge base of known viruses, which help to protect the user.

The scanning features of the program are great. The older versions had very slow scans but now the scans have become quicker which is the best thing. It only scans the files, which are suspicious, and not from a trusted supplier and skips the ones that are known to be from trusted suppliers. This has increased the speed of the scans.

Norton Reputation Service is the new feature of Norton antivirus. This reputation service uses a special algorithm that is used to analyze files to see if they pose any threat. They determine this by considering factors like reputation, age, supplier, popularity and digital signature. It is not actually a separate feature but it is a service that is given by collaborating many different Norton features so that a higher level of security is provided to the user.

Download Insight is a very useful feature that warns you of a harmful download before you download it. the software gives you information on any file that you want to download and tells you about the risk. It tells you about the users who have downloaded the file before so you can see if you are the first one to take the risk or many others have downloaded it. With this information, you will have enough knowledge and information to make a decision whether to download it or not. The best thing is that this feature works side by side, as you browse so you don’t have to wait for the results of the download insight. This feature would not stop you from downloading but it will only give relevant information and then you can choose to download whatsoever.

Other than the download insight and reputation service which helps to prevent you from downloading any file that is risky, there is also a reputation scan, which scans all your current files in your system to give you information about them.

Additional information:

Norton antivirus has many features that are unique which provide a high level of protection to the users. The software is also speedy and does not compromise on the performance of the computer; it actually optimizes the computer so your PC runs faster. The updates are installed automatically so the user does not have to worry about it. The interface is also very easy to use with easy functions like quick scan, full system scan, etc.

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