[jasper the rasper]

Norton AntiVirus™

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Key Benefits

• Stops viruses, worms, spyware, bots, and more—Keeps your system protected against all types of malicious threats.
  
  
• Norton™ Insight—Delivers innovative intelligence-driven technology for faster, fewer, shorter scans.
  
  
• NEW! Rapid pulse updates every 5 to 15 minutes—provides up-to-the-minute protection.
  
  
• Prevents virus-infected emails and instant messages from spreading—Feel secure while you keep in touch.
  
  
• Blocks browser exploits and protects against infected Web sites—Surf the Internet with confidence.

Features
Engineered for Speed

• NEW! Scans only files and processes at risk using Norton™ Insight.
  
  
• NEW! Installs in under one minute on average, requires less than 8 MB of memory.**[More Info]

Up-to-the-minute Protection

• NEW! Delivers up-to-the-minute protection with rapid pulse updates every 5 to 15 minutes.
  
  
• IMPROVED! Provides multilayered security through the Norton™ Protection System.
  
  
• NEW! Prevents bots from taking control of your PC.
  
  
• Detects and automatically removes malicious threats.
  
  
• IMPROVED! Defends against Web-based attacks.
  
  
• Automatically detects and removes spyware, viruses, Trojans, bots and Internet worms.
  
  
• NEW! Recovery tool boots and repairs badly infected PCs.* [More Info]
  
  
• NEW! Delivers our most complete, deep cleaning scan possible.
  
  
• Norton Ongoing Protection provides continuous protection updates and new product features as they become available throughout your product subscription period, helping to keep your computer protected against the latest Internet threats and risks.
  
  
• Norton Automatic Renewal Service helps to ensure that you’re protected by automatically renewing your product subscription before it expires. [More Info]

Control without disruptions

• NEW! Automatically schedules scans and updates to occur while PC is idle.
  
  
• NEW! Review the security status of every process on your PC.
  
  
• NEW! Silent mode helps ensures movies and games are never interrupted.
  
  
• Maps your wireless home network.
  Free Technical Support
  
  
• NEW! Tech support without charge from Symantec delivers help however you need it.***

System Requirements
Microsoft® Windows Vista® Home Basic/Home Premium/Business/Ultimate*
Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 and later Home/Professional/ Media Center Edition
* 300 MHz or faster processor
* 256 MB of RAM (**512 MB RAM required for the Recovery Tool)
* 150 MB of available hard disk space.

Email scanning supported for POP3- and SMTP-compatible email clients.
Browser support for Browser Protection feature

http://www.symantec....orton/antivirus

[jasper the rasper]

Note added February 15, 2009

Recently Symantec has partnered with ask.com who have a very long history of creating adware/spyware programs. Supposedly they have cleaned up their act but that remains to be seen.

Partnership announcement
http://www.symantec....rid=20090203_01

This thread at CoU (Calendar of Updates) which has a huge ammout of posts about this and other vendors that have done the same with ask.com. The thread started in August of 2008 with certain vendors and now Symantec has also been added. CoU has already stopped posting updates for these vendors. There are also many resources in the same thread which show the history of ask.com.
http://www.calendaro...i...c=16253&hl=

Another link from a noted expert on this
http://sunbeltblog.b...lbar-again.html

The program proposed for this is Norton 360 at the time of this note and not NAV which is what we post updates for but that may change over time. We are going to keep posting these updates but ONLY because many of our members use NAV. We wanted to inform people though about this suspect behavior from Symantec and to be careful with both this and other vendors that are resorting to this behavior.

Thanks from your updates staff.

[jasper the rasper]

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