2010/01/09

Norton 360 version 3: the power and speed

Heavy and slow, is what people often think of the recent versions of Norton Antivirus. At times the speed of this Norton Antivirus, the poor have the advantage before the prominent brand names such as Kaspersky or Bitdefender. Norton 360 version will be announced Wednesday and both Symantec to users as well as competitors that: they have both power and speed.


This version includes the components: PC Security, Identity Protection, Backup and PC Tuneup. Mark Kanok, product manager, said that Norton 360 just 60 seconds to install and use only 10 MB of RAM in idle. Not only that, it integrates the advanced features of Tune up (optimize) and Backup (backup).

According to the version of this Kanok bringing new elements to meet the desired result that the user has feedback. Such as gamers they require "quiet, uninterrupted during the game. Or want to be protected but does not affect the speed work. Now those who use backup requires flexibility in generating the list data, or more options to save the address file backup. To ensure that feedback is "hot," Symantec also building forum for users of Norton, and free support via email, chat and phone dient.
PC Security
Norton 360 protects your computer with a system firewall, antivirus, antispyware strong. It will disable the suspicious activities can harm your computer. Function Scan (virus scanning) are faster, by Norton Insight allows the mechanism to ignore the file has been certified safe.

New feature in this version is support for detecting botnets, freeing your computer from hacker's control.

Identity Protection

Symantec feedback is 45% of customers are actively using Identity Safe to manage passwords or form filling (fill out the forms name, pass, email ...) when accessing the web. It's easy to create the Identity Card (card-tight vi) for different purposes.

Version 3 can get the password stored by Internet Explorer; Kanok hope future features will be expanded to other browsers and other password manager.

With Safe Web is integrated, you will be protected in secure web browser. This application confirmed the results denoted by the green (good, safe), red (danger) and gold (not sure). Provides for user mode and review the reasons for making that site was rated as red or yellow. The information above is provided by the 21 million members in the "Norton Community.
Backup
Norton will backup (backup) of your important data, support a variety of storage devices and can be stored on the backup server's Norton (2 GB online storage). Now the Premier version (more expensive $ 20) will support 25 GB.

Should be added as features of version 3 backup toward more flexible options and easy to use. Features such as backup drive for new mobile integrated program restore (restore) tiny, you can back up data to USB drive and restore them in another computer.
PC Tuneup
Function optimized PC can automatically clean up the junk files and defrag the hard drive clean. Default option will let you clean the IE History and Registry.

A unique feature in version 3 is Smart Startup Manager (manage the boot process a smart way). Unlike most other startup manager, Norton tracking the influence of the boot process and run in the background. After collecting enough data, it will advise the user off down the application startup.

Norton is the price of USD 79.99 for three licenses, also add the 25 GB Premium Backup online price is 99.99 USD.