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Monday, October 22, 2012

A brief detail on the features of Norton AntiVirus

Norton is an effective AntiVirus product from Symantec Corporation. It has the capability to protect the  PC from viruses, spyware, malware, and other threats. It also protects us from phishing attacks and spam emails. It supports all Operating Systems ranging from Windows to Mac OS. Here in this post, we would discuss its features.

Features of Norton
Scan of Social Networking Sites


Social media have captivated the imaginary of the people like never before. Users post links ,upload and download videos, images, articles, etc. Antivirus scan these links for phishing frauds, Trojans, spam, and spyware to keeps your PC safe. If you have problems with Norton, feel free to call the third-party service provider for obtaining paid but reliable keywords.



Password Manager

Norton integrates password manager that can store and secure the addresses, user names, password, credit card numbers and email addresses that; are automatically protected and help you to bypass keyloggers. For easy installation steps, call the on-demand Norton support technicians for assistance.

Parental Control

This feature allows us to create accounts for our family members. It lets us track the record of what our kids do when they are online. To make this feature functional, you must first setup a family user account using the ‘Online Family’ option. If the children and the parents are using the same system, ‘Safety Minder’ feature of Norton must be installed and individual accounts should be created for all. Then you need to set up settings to monitor the child’s activity using the Norton website. To see the activities of the child, the parents need to sign in to their accounts.

Enhanced Security

Norton offers effective security that protects our PC, family, mobiles and network against various attacks. It has the capacity to identify different types of threats and then blocks them. You can schedule and limit scans, block files and monitor.

Advanced Norton Insight Function

‘Norton Insight allows the scanning of all the files in a smarter way. To improve the system performance, it scans only some files at a time. It functions with Symantec servers to decide the level of trust of the applications. If the files are included within trusted files, Norton Insight omits those files while scanning. And only files those can’t be trusted are scanned to maintain the speed and reduce the time taken to complete the scan. However, the Insight feature functions only when the system is found to be idle.

SONAR Feature Protection

SONAR offers real-time security against threats to our PC. It can detect the threats on the basis of the behavior of an application. It also protects us from malware embedded within the code and removes and blocks the threats automatically.

Recovery Tool

It offers recovery tool feature that allows us to create CD and DVD disk for future recovery. It is helpful to those who do not have an optical disk. If you wish to remove Norton AntiVirus for some reasons, get help from experts instead of doing self troubleshooting based upon assumptions.

Firewall Protection

It uses Nscan Scanner that detects and blocks the threats and ports.

Easy to use

It is a simple and user-friendly interface with only three buttons – Scan Now, Live Update, and Advanced. Norton is sensitive to all the modes i.e. scans in idle time, and updates while in full-screen mode. Feel free to call on-demand Norton technical support provider for immediate solution of any issue.

Summary

Norton, being a powerful AntiVirus, protects the system from all directions. It ensures protection from all possible threats. It keeps your PC safe from both online and offline threats. Norton offers user friendly, smooth and easy to use features. It is a well tested award-winning software from Symantec and proved itself a popular AntiVirus of modern times.

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