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Technical Details

Enjoy your computer with confidence, knowing viruses, Trojan horses, and worms will be detected and removed automatically
Surf the Web without being watched by dangerous spyware or unwanted adware
Breathe easy when new viruses surface, assured your protection is always up to date
Open email and IM attachments with confidence, knowing they've been scoured for threats
Create and share files freely, knowing even compressed files have been scanned for viruses.

Product details

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description

Stay protected with the world's most trusted antivirus software.* Norton AntiVirus 2006 wards off a host of internet threats. Whether its surfing or chatting, emailing or file swapping, Norton AntiVirus is constantly at work in the background, automatically detecting and removing viruses, Trojan horses, and worms. It also rids your computer of unwanted spyware, adware, and other monitoring software. And with powerful file-by-file scanning capabilities, Norton AntiVirus facilitates worry-free file sharing. Whether you shuttle files over email or via IM--and whether you send them compressed or one at a time--you can be confident any file you open has been scanned for threats.

Even if your computer is already infected, Norton AntiVirus is the ideal solution. It's designed to identify and remove any existing viruses during installation. Once installed, Norton AntiVirus continues to update itself automatically. That way, when a new threat arises, your software will be equipped to handle it. There's no other virus protection like Norton AntiVirus. And if you want to use the internet with confidence--and without dangerous spyware watching you--you need the most trusted solution available.

*Top-selling antivirus software product from December 2000 through May 2005 based on the NPD Group's retail Top Selling Business Software list.

What's new and improved?

Stronger Security and Data Protection
The best way to protect against the damage of viruses is to prevent its installation. Symantec extends its best of breed antivirus removal technology to handle the latest spyware and adware threats and handle the unique side effects of these threats (i.e., registry, processes, files, changes to LSPs) in real time. Norton AntiVirus blocks Home/ hijacking spyware before the user's web page can be redirected.

Adaptive Personalised Protection
The new Norton Protection Center is a common destination point that automatically/dynamically tailors itself to an individual user's preferences, behavior and environment to provide a personalized view of their computer protection status.

The new Norton Risk Assessment Model automatically removes dangerous programs without decisions required by the end user, but for those programs that may be tied to legitimate applications, Norton AntiVirus will guide the user though the steps required to safely protect desired applications from the dangerous programs.

Key Features & Benefits:

Removes Viruses, Worms, and Trojan Horses Automatically
Detects and removes viruses, worms and Trojan horses automatically, without interrupting users' work.

Provides Automatic Worm Blocking
Automatically detects and blocks worms in outgoing email messages, stopping them from sending themselves out to others.

Protects Instant Messages
Scans incoming attachments from Instant Messaging services such as MSN Messenger, Windows Messenger, AOL Messenger or Yahoo Messenger for viruses and removes infections automatically.

Spyware and Other Security Risks Detection
Expands Norton AntiVirus' protection beyond viruses, worms and Trojans to include detection of certain types of non-virus threats such as spyware, adware and keystroke loggers which can be used maliciously to:

Compromise the security of a system.

Spy on users' private data.

Track users' online behavior.

Proactive Protection with QuickScan
Users have an additional scanner called QuickScan that will scan the system upon receipt of the latest virus definitions and automatically remove those threats with improved removal capabilities.

Email Scanning
Scans and Cleans Both Incoming and Outgoing Email. Detects viruses lurking in email attachments before users' even save or launch the attachment, to avoid the risk of unknowingly forwarding viruses to others.

Continues to protect mail clients that use standard POP3 mail protocol, and it automatically configures email protection for commonly used clients such as:

Microsoft Outlook Express 4.0/5.X

Microsoft Outlook 97/98/2000/XP

Netscape Messenger 4.X, Netscape Mail 6.0

Eudora Light 3.0, Eudora Pro 4.0, Eudora 5.0

Up-to-Date Protection
Notifies users when their virus definition files are out-of-date and guides them to renew their subscription to receive protection updates if their subscription has expired.

Compressed File Archive Support
Provides real-time scanning of compressed file archives, which users download from the internet (including Instant Messenger and Peer-to-Peer networks) and detects virus infections even before users open the files.

Powerful Detection and Repair Options
Quarantine function allows users to redirect an infected file to a safe area on their system. Within Quarantine, users can initiate the Scan and Deliver feature to submit the file to the Symantec Security Response experts for analysis.

Scan and Deliver lets users submit a file with a suspected or unrepairable virus quickly and easily to Symantec Security Response team. If Symantec Security Response experts determine that the file contains a new, unknown virus, a Symantec Security Response engineer creates a new virus definition and sends it to the user.

Malicious Code Detection protects users' system against malicious ActiveX code and Java applets, as well as Trojan Horses.

Uses Bloodhound heuristic technology, which detects virus-like behaviour, to identify and repair unknown viruses.

LiveUpdate
Downloads virus and spyware definition (i.e., protection) updates automatically when users connect to the internet. Protection updates are essential in keeping computers protected against new virus threats and other security risks. If users' don't connect to the internet frequently, Norton AntiVirus prompts them to run LiveUpdate when their virus definitions are dangerously out-of-date.** **Twelve months of virus definition service updates included with purchase of Norton AntiVirus 2006; annual subscriptions available online for subsequent updates.

Symantec Automated Support Assistant
Allows users to efficiently help themselves via direct links from error dialogs and key features (e.g. LiveUpdate) to an online troubleshooting system with relevant support information.

Symantec offers users free online technical support options that automatically determine which products and versions are on a customer's machine and whether the user has the most up-to-date product patches. Using this information, the assistant attempts to diagnose the issue and provide customized solutions, eliminating the need to search through the online support knowledge base.

Product Description

Norton Anti-Virus 2007 Allows you to quarantine infected files Automatically protects against viruses and other malicious programming Keep up to date with online updates retrieved automatically

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful

Doesn't cut it when it needs to 28 July 2006

By B. J. Horan

My PC came with Norton Antivirus and I renewed it to 2005. I carried out live updates and scanned regularly. All seemed very nice until last week when everything got corrupted and I couldn't log on. The screen is covered with white pixelated tartan.

When I ran the recovery disk Norton had been disabled. When I reloaded it discovered 59 infected files, but the screen is still bad. My brother suffered the same fate and fixed the screen by running the antivirus system his internet provider supplies. Very unimpressed with Norton. I also suspect from the wording of some 5 star reviews that the company is trying to plant favourable reviews to keep their star rating up.

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful

This is a seriously bad product! 27 July 2006

By T. A. Castell

I downloaded and installed this online when my subscription for the 2001 edition came up for renewal. It was a nightmare to download taking an absolute age and the installation is not much better. Now my computer has slowed to a snails pace where I had no real problem with the earlier version. Now I look on the Amazon USA site and surprise, surprise this has horrendous reviews citing the same problem. Uninstalling is reported to be equally aggravating.So much to look forward to! This is bloatware. Avoid!

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful

Another upgrade with no apparent problems 14 May 2006

By E. P. Schlaikjer

Every year I get the annoying notice from Norton that my update cover is running out and I have to make the decision: do nothing, renew cover, or upgrade to the newest version? And every year I read the horror stories on Amazon and elsewhere, worry a lot, but upgrade anyway. So far I have had no problems. So far.

This year the only annoyance was that 2006 puts a big blurb on your task bar, but you can option it away. My computer does seem slightly slower, but then it always does, if I think about it, if you know what I mean. Norton has an easy option from the taskbar to turn it off for 15 min, or longer, or until next boot up. I use this when doing something heavy like rendering a DVD or playing Doom 3. It makes a difference.

An increasingly urgent problem is what to do with my kids' PCs. They all have old or demo versions of Norton, and I worry that if they get viruses then my machine is at risk, or certainly my internet connection. Yet it gets really expensive to buy them into the whole Norton pay-forever experience. I read somewhere that Norton allows you to use one copy multiple times at home, but I doubt this, though have not yet tried.

Other small issues with Norton AV. On one PC it refuses to turn on, must do it manually every boot-up. And sometimes it spots a virus and it is not clear if it is dealing with it: it points you at a link with laborious removal instructions (that I never do). Since the warnings don't recur, I think the virus has been removed, though the wording is unclear. I wish the "you are protected against new viruses" pop-ups had a link to *what* virus; otherwise I tend to suspect they are randomly generated!

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