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Symantec Releases Public Beta of Norton Internet Security 2010 and AntiVirus 2010

Posted 07/03/09 at 05:19:54 PM  by Paul Lilly

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Many of our readers were taken off-guard when we rated Norton Internet Security 2009 a 9/Kickass in last year's antivirus roundup, and we even admit to being surprised at Norton's transformation from a resource-heavy sloth to a lean and competent antimalware package. We hope the trend continues, and we'll have a chance to see if it does now that Symatec has released beta versions of its upcoming 2010 releases to the public.

The new version features a new protection model codenamed Quorum and will put a heavier focus on reputation-based malware detection. While it won't replace existing signature-based detection for known threats, Norton says the reputation model can detect zero-day malware that's never been seen before.

"Our new approach changes the rules by both enhancing traditional security techniques to make them more aggressvie and by making it dramatically more difficult for attackers to evade detection by simply changing their malware," said Rowan Trollope, Symantec senior vice president, Consumer Business Unit.

Other features include an overhaul to parental control and spam filtering, more detailed information provided by Norton Insight, which identifies known good programs for faster scanning, and a new feature called Autopsy, which is designed to help the user understand what just happened when Norton automatically removes an infection.

Norton Internet Security 2010 Beta
Norton Antivirus 2010 Beta

Image Credit: Symantec

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TAGS: Software, Security, antivirus, antimalware, norton, AV, symantec, internet security 2010
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avatarum...

Submitted by tdk650 on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 10:27am

All past versions sucked, consumed resources and in plain english, did not prevent anything!! Worked on a laptop yesterday, with it all up to date and running and active subscription, and sitll had a bunch of rogue spyware apps on it. I thought its suppossed to remove and block these things.

Use VIPRE, the best I have ever used, against other free and pay apps. NOD32 is good, but this program is just even greater, blocks anything bad form even writing to the hard drive the first time it trys to. You wont even know its running!! Scans descritly, a lot of custom control, such as if it blocks something thats not bad, move to the always allow area. I found it hard to do with Norton products.

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avatarStill won't make me switch

Submitted by dag1992 on Sun, 07/05/2009 - 5:01pm

Still won't make me switch from Avira.

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avatarThough most realatives

Submitted by WindowsXP on Sun, 07/05/2009 - 2:27pm

Though most realatives computers I fix have Norton AV that causes problems like a virus, slows down their entire system, and is almost always expired and still consuming resources, I may actually try this. They look like they want to turn this behemoth system around, and Ill be glad to support them on this by trying the beta.

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avatarSorry, but after years of

Submitted by horzo on Sat, 07/04/2009 - 9:52pm

Sorry, but after years of garbage software, It'll take more than one good version to get me back to Norton.

I'll stick with NOD32.

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avatarYup

Submitted by vistageek on Sat, 07/04/2009 - 10:19pm

+1

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