Norton Internet Security Suite 2007

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Norton Internet Security Suite 2007 - 3 User

Manufacturer: Symantec
Product Group: Software
Binding: CD-ROM
ASIN: B000IAMRXK
2006-09-30

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Product Description

Protect your computer from viruses hackers spywareand spam with comprehensive security. Product Information Note: This is the 3-user version of NortonInternet Security 2007 From the moment you install it you'regetting protection from the latest online threats.  Norton InternetSecurity is always running in the background to detect the block spywareviruses worms crimeware and o

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Norton Internet Security 2007 automatically protects you from the latest online threats including spyware, viruses, worms, phishing Web sites, and hackers, before they can cause harm. Norton Internet Security is the #1 Internet security suite protecting users from spyware, viruses and other harmful attacks (Source: The NPD Group /U.S. Point of Sale Information, June 2000-July 2006.). For 2007, Norton Internet Security comes with newly developed technology for phishing protection and detection and blocking of wireless intruders.

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NEW! Phishing Protection—This new feature identifies and warns you to prevent you from visiting phishing Web sites. Many of these phishing Web sites only stay active for a short period of time, so protection must also be immediate. When you visit Web sites, Phishing Protection automatically checks the site against a global "blocklist" of known phishing Web sites that is updated in real time. Norton Internet Security also uses an advanced analytical process to determine if the sites visited are fraudulent based on specific characteristics. Phishing Protection automatically identifies and blocks you from visiting a phishing Web site, protecting you from online identity theft. Real time protection provides immediate threat knowledge about these transient, fraudulent sites.

NEW! Wireless intruder detection and blocking—This feature identifies other computers on the same wireless network that are trying to communicate with your computer. If you connected to a public network such as a coffee shop or airport, the feature automatically blocks these computers from connecting to your computer. If you are connected to a private network, such as a home or office, you can freely communicate with other computers you own, so you can share files, printers, etc.

ENHANCED! Intrusion Prevention—This feature uses advanced intrusion prevention technology to shield newly discovered vulnerabilities in the Windows OS or popular program applications. It prevents crimeware from using the network layer to enter through security "holes" in the operating system and commonly used programs.

This feature does not wait for specific virus, spyware and other threat signatures to be published before protecting the computer. Instead, it shields the detected vulnerability and blocks attacks attempting to enter a computer by exploiting this specific security hole. Benefits

ENHANCED! Auto-Protect Blocking—Detects and blocks incoming viruses, spyware and unwanted adware threats as they attempt to install and execute on the system. Auto-Protect Blocking now blocks both threats and high security risks from ever installing on the system. The easy "install and forget" feature does not require you to make constant security decisions to keep your computer safe and protected.

ENHANCED! Threat Category Protection Technology—Enhances the threat prevention capabilities from protection against individual worm threats to protection against entire categories of viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and spyware.

Rather than block individually identified threats, this feature now matches individual but unknown threats to known worm and virus families and blocks them from installing on the system without requiring specific virus or worm signatures.

ENHANCED! Rootkit protection—Patent pending, advanced technology that detects camouflaged threats at all system levels (application, user mode, OS File system and Disk Level). Unlike spyware, rootkits are a new technique to stealth threats by placing them deep in the operating system. These threats exhibit no symptoms that are noticeable on the system. Symantec has developed low-level inspection techniques that bypass normal methods, allowing Norton software to detect and remove threats that are invisible to Windows or other security software.

ENHANCED! Packer support—Many virus writers use packer tools to package up a virus such that the virus becomes obfuscated and difficult to detect. This feature will now focus on unpacking the virus so the original signature can be detected.

ENHANCED! Smart Firewall—This feature automatically and continuously configures itself to allow good programs to communicate over the Internet while also automatically detecting and blocking spyware, viruses, worms and crimeware from trying to communicate out over the Internet. These security decisions are made without requiring you to take action. This feature uses continuously updated security information that is automatically delivered to your computer by Symantec Security Response. Programs blocked from outbound communications may transmit sensitive personal information, infect other computers, contain botnet commands given by hackers controlling your computer remotely.

ENHANCED! Scanning Capabilities <ul>

Preinstall Scan detects and cleans spyware, viruses and worms on an already infected system. The enhanced pre-install scan now detects and removes high-risk spyware before installation. </li>

QuickScan runs invisibly after latest receipt of virus definitions to help ensure that your computer is fully protected against even the newest threats. QuickScan has now expanded to search for other areas on the system such as "My Documents" and other areas of common infection. </li>

Full Scan now includes a foreground and background throttling mode. The background throttling mode performs the scan using less processing power so users can continue working on their system without major performance impacts. </li></ul>

Norton Internet Security 2007 provides:

Proactive protection—Intrusion Prevention Capabilities, Phishing protection, and Auto Protect Blocking prevent spyware, viruses and worms from getting on your system.

Simplicity and convenience—Complete out of the box set of security features that you set and forget. Runs in the background, automatically detecting and removing viruses and spyware with minimal user interaction.

Response capabilities—Symantec Security Response has the largest global Internet threat detection network to give consumers the latest and comprehensive protection updates for their systems.

Customer Reviews:

What I say it's Norton.......2007-06-05

The software is as good as always. I was very happy to see that Symantic finally came out with a multiple computer version for those of us who have more than one computer in the house.

Failure Failure Failure.......2007-06-05

I stopped using Norton years ago when garbage Norton left behind after uninstall interfered with a competing product when I tried to install it and corrupted my system. But years have gone by. So the IT guy at work recommends Norton and CNET gives it editor's choice (which I will NEVER believe again) so I buy it for my wife and daughter's machines.

Big big mistake. I install. The installation hangs after going all the way to 100%. I restart and update the product, the update also hangs after seeming to complete. I restart the computer. Then I try to launch Norton. It won't launch. In fact, launching it makes the computer unstable, slowing it to a crawl. I try to uninstall the product. This also hangs. I restart the computer, Norton is still on the Explorer toolbar, so it's not uninstalled. I contact their tech support, and they send me several pages of instructions on how to get Norton out of your system manually. After doing everything on the sheets (two hours) it's STILL not completely off my system. And my system now appears to be permanently compromised and in need of a complete reformat/re-build.

Needless to say, I now HATE these guys.

My guess is that Norton can only safely be installed on a new or a newly rebuilt system. Do NOT put Norton on a machine that has ever had another anti virus product on it, even a Norton product.

BUT ON A DEEPER LEVEL...
In what other business are you allowed to sell a product that does HARM to your customers, and when they call you for help, you just send them a manual on how to fix it themselves. Is there ANY other business where this is considered acceptable? My next machines will be Macs. Screw all these guys.

This year they seem to have finally got it right.......2007-06-01

As a consultant that has installed Norton products for many years I have to say this 2007 version is by far the best I have seen. Resource load is better by dumping of some features from standard install that can be added back if desired. It installs easily, is not at all intrusive and seems to work well with most normal networking activities. I especially like that after proper installation my clients are not bothered with constant barrage of pop-up choices, it just runs quietly in the background and works. Just finished a new HP laptop with Vista that was trashed by client trying to install McAfee and required a full factory restore to fix the mess made by client and McAfee tech support trying to repair. Installed Norton IS 2007 after restore and system is running perfectly now.

A Piece of Crap, But So Are the Others.......2007-05-27

I've tried several different Internet security products, and they're all lousy. Norton Internet Security certainly works well enough protecting your system. But like its competitors, it has major annoyances. The user interface is very slow. The worst is that it just starts doing things behind the scenes without telling you anything. All of a sudden, your machine will slow to a crawl for 15-20 minutes at a time (we're talking 3 minutes just to load Task Manager, for example) and sure enough, Live Update, their updating system, is running in the background. No message, no way to stop or postpone it. In fact, there is a general lack of messages in this software. You can click on something and nothing will happen for as much as a minute. No hourglass, no message to wait, just no response. Thinking nothing has happened may tempt you to click again. The result can sometimes be locking up the program or even Windows itself.

Automatic Live Update is supposed to be optional. It can be turned off. But in fact, turning it off has little effect. It runs automatically from time to time anyway. This can be especially annoying if you're running on battery power, as you can use up to a third of your battery before it finishes and your machine is back to normal speed. The only way I've found to turn it off (after some hours back and forth with their online support folks) is to go into administrative services and set Automatic LiveUpdate Scheduler to "manual", and even then it can come back to life from time to time.

Based on the inability to schedule Live Update reliably, I won't renew this product at the end of the year.

Don't listen to all the bad reviews!.......2007-05-24

I won't go into all of the details that other's have. I just want to say that I have been using various versions of Norton Internet Security(NIS 2002, NIS 2005)for quite some time, and this is the best product yet. Seems a lot more efficient than NIS 2005 did on the same XP computer. No problems and a lot less annoying popups/questions than 2005. Only negative I see, is a less flexible Parental control that has to be downloaded seperately. I don't use this anyway.

If you have had sucess with NIS in the past, you will have no regrets!

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