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Norton Internet Security 2008 up to 3 Users
Studio : Symantec
by Symantec
Brand : Symantec
Model : 12608434
Platform : Windows Vista, Windows XP
Release Date : 2007-09-11
Publisher : Symantec
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Color : 3-user
EAN : 0037648610070
UPC : 037648617291
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 175 reviews)
List Price : $69.99
Our Price : $27.85
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Norton Identity Safe keeps your personal information and identity safe when you buy, bank and browse online
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Start, scan, and run faster. Improved performance delivers an enhanced online experience
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Get help fast with free online technical support via live chat and email all from within the product
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Optimized product design improves scan times and decreases impact on system startup and resource usage
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SONAR technology delivers behavior-based protection that can detect emerging spyware and viruses even before traditional signature-based definitions are available
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Product Description |
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What do you do to keep yourself healthy? Norton Internet Security Suite 2008 is designed to keep your PC healthy. Every time you visit the Internet, there are hackers, predators, and weapons ready to usurp your identity and destroy your computer. It can happen quickly and silently. Some viruses present on the web can have delay mechanisms that can halt use of your computer days, weeks, months ahead.
Norton Internet Security Suite 2008 scans your PC for potential pathogens, points them out, and helps eliminate them. It provides regular updates to your system to eliminate any new viruses. It also provides a strong firewall acting as a shield while you're online. Control spam with built-in filter technologies.
Enjoy the Internet and safeguard your PC and peripherals with the power and reliability that Symantec is famous for. Be safe when your PC has Norton Internet Security Suite 2008 installed. Intrusion Prevention automatically shields newly discovered security vulnerabilities Network protection configures security settings when logged on at home, or on public networks Full System Scan performs a deep scan to remove existing viruses, spyware and other threats Norton Protection Center provides a central place to easily check overall security settings Includes protection updates and new product features as available throughout the renewable service period Windows Vista friendly |
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Stay protected from the latest online threats. Norton Internet Security 2008 runs quietly in the background to detect and block today's complex threats and to protect your identity when you buy, bank, or browse online. The friendly and efficient product design helps minimize confusing security alerts and system slowdowns that can get in the way of your online experience. And if you need help, an integrated online chat tool connects you to our support professionals, so you have easy access to the answers you need. In addition to protection updates, Norton Internet Security provides new product features as available throughout your service subscription.  Norton Internet Security 2008 runs quietly in the background to detect and block today's complex threats and to protect your identity when you buy, bank, or browse online. | Stay protected from the latest online threats.
Norton Internet Security 2008 runs quietly in the background to detect and block today's complex threats and to protect your identity when you buy, bank, or browse online. Key Benefits
- Blocks online identity theft--An extra layer of security protects when you buy, bank, or browse.
- Detects and eliminates spyware--Provides advanced protection against today's latest threats.
- Removes viruses and Internet worms--Fast and quiet scans provide comprehensive, automatic protection.
- Protects against hackers--Safeguards your computer with a smart firewall that automatically configures protection settings.
Includes Full Versions of the Following Products:
- Norton AntiVirus
- Norton Personal Firewall
- Norton Antispyware
- Norton Identity Safe--New!
- Norton Antiphishing
New Features and Enhancements--What's New
- Norton Identity Safe keeps your personal information and your identity safe when you buy, bank and browse online.
- Enhanced performance lets you start, scan, and run faster, so you can enjoy your online experience.
- Get help fast with free online technical support via live chat and email all from within the product.
- Optimized product design improves scan times and decreases impact on system startup and resource usage.
- SONAR (Symantec Online Network for Advanced Response) technology delivers behavior-based protection that can detect emerging spyware and viruses even before traditional signature-based definitions are available.
- Stores and encrypts your passwords and other confidential data, automatically filling it at your request to save time and protect it from being stolen by eavesdropping keystroke loggers.
- Network security monitoring checks the status of your wireless network security, maps connected devices, and provides expert advice on managing your network security settings.
 Start, scan, and run faster. Improved performance delivers an enhanced online experience. | Norton AntiVirus:
Antivirus and antispyware protection, rootkit detection and intrusion protection - Protects your computer by automatically detecting and removing spyware, viruses, Trojan horses, and Internet worms.
- Exchange files via email and instant messaging without worrying about receiving threats on your computer or spreading them to others.
- Stays out of your way. Runs quietly in the background without requiring you to respond to confusing security alerts.
- Threat blocking technology quietly monitors system activities to stop most spyware, viruses, and worms before they can install and cause damage on your system.
- Email and instant message scanning detects and removes infected attachments even if they're hidden in archives.
- Rootkit detection finds and removes threats that are hidden deeply in the operating system.
- Internet worm protection blocks an entire class of viruses, spyware, and worms with a single threat signature.
- Thorough pre-installation scan cleans out spyware and virus infections that can obstruct ordinary protection.
- Quick Scan automatically runs on receipt of new definitions to help ensure protection against the latest threats.
- Full System Scan performs a deep scan of the system and hard drive to remove existing spyware, viruses, and other threats.
Norton Identity Safe:
Antiphishing, Web site authentication, eavesdropping protection and confidential information management - Advanced phishing protection identifies and blocks fraudulent Web sites designed to steal personal information.
- Adds a layer of targeted, real-time identity theft protection to prevent identity thieves from eavesdropping on your online shopping transactions and banking and brokerage sessions from login to logout.
- Blocks hard-to-detect phishing sites by deeply analyzing Web page elements for evidence of criminal activity.
- Authenticates the Web location and credentials of the most popular banking and shopping sites, so you know you're dealing with the true site and not a fake.
Norton Personal Firewall:
Two-way firewall - Stay hidden when connected with a smart firewall that automatically configures protection settings.
- Log on at home, at a cafe, or on the road, and Norton Internet Security automatically optimizes your security settings.
- Two-way firewall blocks hackers from breaking into your computer and stops spyware from transmitting information.
- Trust Control automatically optimizes your protection settings based on the network--wired or wireless, public or private--to which you're connected.
Additional Features
- The Norton Add-on Pack delivers optional solutions for you and your family including antispam and parental controls.
- Connect with confidence knowing your protection is continuously updated for one year as new threats emerge.
- Includes protection updates and new product features as available throughout the renewable service period.
- Intrusion prevention shields newly discovered security holes in the operating system and applications to prevent viruses, worms, and hackers from entering through these vulnerabilities.
- Includes one year of automatic definition updates, new product features, and access to updated versions of Norton Internet Security throughout the life of your service subscription.
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Americancivilwar statement of 3 users is incorrect. |
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Americancivilwar states this is for 3 users which is incorrect. It is for one user only, with 3 PCs. I wasted money on this as I could have bought the one for only one computer. I had to install due to canceling from my Internet that was charging me $ 6.00 a month. It also came with the antivirus so I would not have had to pay for either. |
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I use it, I detest it |
Norton just may be the best of the AV suites available, but that doesn't make it much more palatable. The software is a pain to install and worse to renew, has a major (negative) impact on performance, and is paternalistic to the max. Turn off anything - anything - in the suite, and you'll never see the end of warning messages in your system tray warning you of Armegeddon. From a protection standpoint, the software is pretty good, but by no means a panacea, and things do slip through. Personally, I suspect there are some memory leaks somewhere in the software, as my machine is unresponsive to the point of being unusable after a full system scan.
I went to an AV suite after running without one for years, but finally got hit with a virus that required reflashing and a ground-up rebuild. Given the performance problems running AV software, however, my current thinking is that I might be better off simply taking a conservative approach with data security and redoing the build once a month. Given that's an immensely easier task on the Mac OS (more secure to begin with), I'm switching in the next couple of months. Norton and Vista aren't my idea of better off. |
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Norton Internet Security 2008 |
Does the job but is a bit of a CPU resource hog when it is scanning. One annoyance lately is that each time I boot the PC I get a nag screen from Norton live update asking if I want to check for updates (Yes/No)? and I have to answer it each time. This even after I set live update to "off" in the Norton Internet Security control panel settings. It nags you.
Other than this, it seems to do a thorough job of protecting. Firewall is maybe a little too thorough as it has blocked some things that I don't want blocked and caused a kensington bluetooth Windows Vista driver to not install properly (until I disabled the firewall). Running it on up to date fast Intel based multi-processor laptop PC's also, so it does not slow things down in normal use. Overall I am happy with it. The package I bought allows you to install and use it on up to 3 PC's. It's not a bad package and does its job well. |
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Nice Streamlined virus/firewall protection |
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I was suprised to find that the install and operation of this product went well on Vista. I wasn't sure what to expect because Norton's antivirus product has gotten large and added extra fluff over the years... but Norton Internet Security is a good stable product so far. |
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Works great. Some performance tips |
If you are having problems with your system getting bogged down by Norton Antivirus (whatever version), I think I have a good tip for you. Try to reduce hard drive activity on your PC. Your software (especially Windows) read/writes more stuff to disk than you think and they all have to wait for that mechanical arm to move around. It's an incredible bottleneck and if your PC is already pretty busy, the nature of Norton Antivirus probably pushes it way over the edge.
First off, I turn of any kind of (disk) auto-scan I can find in Norton. It will remind you anyway when it is time for a full system scan and I prefer to pick my time when I let it take over. Until then it is running in memory inspecting files being created anyway and should catch anything evil. The monthly(?) full scan should catch anything that slipped by for whatever reason.
Then, try to reduce disk activity in Windows. I'm currently running Vista and it indexes and caches and prefetches so much that there is very little left for what I'm actually doing.
You may have to fine tune it for your particular use, but personally I turned of disk indexing, prefetching, various other caching and since I have 3 Gigs of memory I actually turned of virtual memory as well (even if you have lots of memory, Windows will swap things to virtual memory and that disk activity is usually what makes your PC slow down). I also use Hibernate when I shut down my PC. That eliminates a lot of the disk activity that happens when Windows (especially Vista) starts up again. Hybernate actually powers your PC off, so I only use Shutdown every couple of weeks to let it get a fresh start.
My Norton 2007 went from making me literally scream at the computer to being virtually unnoticeable and the full system scan never turned up anything (the program running in the background on the other hand caught several viruses and unauthorized access attempts).
Now I upgraded to Norton Internet Security 2008 and it zooms along just as 2007 did after my tweaks. So technically, I don't know if 2008 is any faster than 2007, but other reviewers have said they have observed it to be much faster.
However what I can say is that I like its interface A LOT MORE than 2007.
The numerous attributes (Virus, Spyware, Firewall, eMail, Phishing etc) are listed separately on the Home screen and even though there is a Fix Now button that will fix all of them for you, you have the option to individually configure and update each attribute. I have my Windows Automatic Updates set to inform me of updates, but not to download or install them until I choose. What bugged me in Norton 2007 was that it considered that a threat and would not give me the green checkmark in the taskbar even though everything else was up to par. So since I had a permanent warning icon down there, I would not notice if anything else had gone critical. In 2008 I am now able to tell it to ignore the Windows Updates when determining to give me a green checkmark and will notice when something I actually care about goes critical.
2008 removed the ad-block feature which I miss and added a password and forms filler, which a lot of browsers and tools provide. Personally I use RoboForm, which I like a lot.
There is also a Network Map, which looks interesting, but to which I can't speak since I don't have a network.
Another tip: If you have a previous version of Norton, use the Norton uninstaller before installing 2008. It's easy and may avoid problems. You can find it by searching for "Norton uninstaller" in Google. |
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