A good primary line of defence
With this latest edition of NIS Norton aims to enhance user experience and bring more information to the user. To this end, the Insight feature lets you view processor and memory usage, important downloads, installations and scan points historically against a timeline. At the same time, Norton has muted the pop up alerts by giving users the option to control notifications. 2010 is compatible with Windows 7, yet on our RC1 machine, it popped up a non compatibility error and refused to live update or register an account for a while. One of the newer features added to this edition is a reputation engine called Quorum.
This is Norton’s attempt at going beyond heuristics and virus signatures to try to detect unknown threats. It cross references files you are downloading, with data from other users who’ve downlaoded the same file. If there isn’t enough information about the file, it asks you to steer clear for a while. Still, going by the way it works, we fail to see how Quorum can work without sacrificing the first few proverbial lambs. Other options in the package include customizing idle time usage for scans as well as battery management for portables. With this edition it takes a page out of NIS 2009, by keeping its footprint as small as possible. Rounding up all the modules in this suite such as firewall, new safe web protection that annotates links in search results, network security map and password management; NIS 2010 is a good overall AV solution for most purposes. There is also a parental control feature that requires users to download another small application called SafetyMinder – a small gripe since it could have as well been included in the main package. At Rs 2,495 for a three PC license, and Rs 1,450 for a single PC license you may consider buying it as a step up over free suites, for personal as well as small office use.
Contact:
Symantec Corp
Phone: +91-99209 29298
Email: nortonindia@symantec.com
Website:in.symantechstore.com, Norton.com
Warranty: 1 year update subscription
Price: Rs 2,495 (3 PC) and Rs 1450 (Single PC)
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System Requirements:
Windows XP SP2/Vista/Win7
300 MHz or faster processor
512 MB RAM
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Ratings:
Features—————–7
Performance————6.5
Ease of use————–7
Value for money——–6
Overall——————-6.5
