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Norton Internet Security 2010
22 September 2009 - 10:51 AM
Version 2010 was released officially on September 8, 2009. This version features Project Quorum,which introduces reputation-based threat detection to keep up with the200 million attacks each month, many of which Symantec claims evade Signature based detection. The new approach relies on Norton Community Watch,in which participants send information about the applications runningon their computers. Safe applications exhibit common attributes, suchas being of a known origin with known publishers. Conversely, newmalware may have an unknown publisher, among other attributes. Usingthe data a "reputation score" is calculated and can be used to inferthe likelihood of an unknown application being safe, or malicious.
Other facets of Quorum are parental controls and spam filtering. Norton Internet Security 2010 bundles a free subscription of Online Family. Norton,which PC Magazine found to be an improvement over the parental controlsbundled with prior releases. Spam filtering uses technologies Symantecacquired from Brightmail.Two filters are used to find spam, a locally installed one, then acheck against Symantec's servers to see if the message is known spam.In PC Magazine testing, no valid e-mail were marked as spam. 11 percentof spam still made it to the inbox, noted as a significant improvementover prior releases. SONAR 2 leverages reputation data to judge if a program is malicious. Norton Insight has been expanded, showing users the number of Norton Communityparticipants who have a certain program installed, its impact of systemresources and how long it has been installed. Information about theprogram's origin and a graph of its resource usage is also provided. Anew feature codenamed Autospy helps users understand whatNorton did when malware was found. The malware's actions and Norton'sresolution are presented to the user. Previous releases removed threatson sight and quietly warned users, potentially confusing when users aredeceived in downloading rogue security softwares.With a compatible graphics card, the "Flip Screen" option shows theopposite side of the main interface, comprising of a chart of CPU ormemory usage and a timeline of security events. Without one, the "FlipScreen" link is replaced by a "back" link, which opens the back of thewindows as a separate window.
Malware removal and blocking performed well, setting or meetingrecords in PC Magazine testing. The exception was blocking commercialkeyloggers, where Norton made an above average score. File operationstook 2 percent longer, and the file compression and extraction testtook 4 percent longer. The only area where Norton introduced asignificant delay was when the system was booting, the beta version ofthe suite added 31 percent to the boot time, significantly longer thanprior versions.However, with the release of the official version, Symantec fine-tunedthe suite's speed and will be reported to the Norton site's Performancetest page soon.
Other facets of Quorum are parental controls and spam filtering. Norton Internet Security 2010 bundles a free subscription of Online Family. Norton,which PC Magazine found to be an improvement over the parental controlsbundled with prior releases. Spam filtering uses technologies Symantecacquired from Brightmail.Two filters are used to find spam, a locally installed one, then acheck against Symantec's servers to see if the message is known spam.In PC Magazine testing, no valid e-mail were marked as spam. 11 percentof spam still made it to the inbox, noted as a significant improvementover prior releases. SONAR 2 leverages reputation data to judge if a program is malicious. Norton Insight has been expanded, showing users the number of Norton Communityparticipants who have a certain program installed, its impact of systemresources and how long it has been installed. Information about theprogram's origin and a graph of its resource usage is also provided. Anew feature codenamed Autospy helps users understand whatNorton did when malware was found. The malware's actions and Norton'sresolution are presented to the user. Previous releases removed threatson sight and quietly warned users, potentially confusing when users aredeceived in downloading rogue security softwares.With a compatible graphics card, the "Flip Screen" option shows theopposite side of the main interface, comprising of a chart of CPU ormemory usage and a timeline of security events. Without one, the "FlipScreen" link is replaced by a "back" link, which opens the back of thewindows as a separate window.
Malware removal and blocking performed well, setting or meetingrecords in PC Magazine testing. The exception was blocking commercialkeyloggers, where Norton made an above average score. File operationstook 2 percent longer, and the file compression and extraction testtook 4 percent longer. The only area where Norton introduced asignificant delay was when the system was booting, the beta version ofthe suite added 31 percent to the boot time, significantly longer thanprior versions.However, with the release of the official version, Symantec fine-tunedthe suite's speed and will be reported to the Norton site's Performancetest page soon.
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