Norton AntiVirus 2008

Software Description : Blocks certain more sophisticated worms (such as Blaster and Sasser) before they enter your computer Norton AntiVirus was designed to remove viruses, worms, and Trojan horses automatically - without interrupting your work. Norton AntiVirus can also detect spyware and other non-virus threats.

The Good: Norton AntiVirus is a powerful suit of antivirus that will help you detect thousands of unknown or existing viruses. It will start the protection in your PC automatically whenever you startup your system and minimizes in the system tray. It will warn you of the viruses, worms, Trojan horses and more every time you are running a disk, a browser, an email operation or some programs if there is any risk. It will be with proper information for you to settle down what has happened. Live update can help you connect with FTP Server of the Symantec to download the latest virus database.

The Bad: One, too many things are required to download. Your name, e-mail address, loaded Yahoo toolbar along with the demo Norton AntiVirus 2008, name again, address, and phone number before continuing. That is so bothered to get a free trial with just 15 days. Sometimes we will quit it since there are so many excellent candidates waiting for us.

The Bottom Line: Norton AntiVirus 2008 disinfects viruses and spyware with real-time protection. Viruses, spyware, intrusions and other security risks can be stopped outside your system, which helps keep your entire computer virus-free and running at the full speed. Working in the tiring-room, you won’ t be bothered when you surf the Internet, read the news, play games, and download software or music. Norton AntiVirus 2008 provides new product features as available throughout your service subscription. Performance of Version 2008 is highly improved.

Norton Antivirus 2008 scans and cleans all email and instant messaging (IM) attachments, preventing you from receiving viruses, or spreading them to others. It also keeps eyes on the changes to your system and defenses your PC by removing them. The scanning engine is useful and stable. Sometimes it will cause a halt resulting from that it covers too much memory. With set-it and forget-it functions, Norton AntiVirus checks for updates continuously and automatically blocks new and emerging threats from getting into your system.

Ease of use

Norton Antivirus 2008 uses a very popular interface to provide people with a default configuration that is sufficient to protect your systems, which won’ t cause any troubles in the operation of scanning viruses, spyware, phishing attacks, root kits, and more. It will start and prevent your PC automatically in a minimized mode in system tray. You don’t have to know how to remove the viruses or spyware, because there will be appropriate information and you can disinfect them completely. You can minimize it when you are doing the scanning.

Effectiveness

Norton Antivirus 2008 is well-featured in scanning viruses, spyware, malicious files and more, meeting all of your virus scanning needs. The enterprise version can satisfy you more with stronger functions. The startup and scanning is a little faster than before in this version. The improvement in functions can provide you a safer working condition when surfing on Internet. It is first-class in scanning but not so effective in anti-virus. Its scanning is much better than disinfection. One thing we should notice is that after its installation, Norton Antivirus 2008 will monitor your machine completely. All these processes will cover many resources and slow down your PC.

Updates

Norton Antivirus 2008 includes one year of automatic definition updates, new product features, and access to updated versions of Norton AntiVirus™. The virus database will be updated once a day. This is a great improvement over the old system of looking for and installing updates only once a week. If you fail in the update, you have to uninstall it and install it again.

Feature Set

Norton Antivirus 2008 includes antivirus, internet worm protection, and Rootkit detection. Norton Internet Worm Protection stops certain damaging Internet worms at their attempted point of entry. Its quick scan tool can automatically search for and remove viruses whenever new virus protection updates are downloaded. Pre-install scan quickly detect and remove infections that can interfere with installing and launching Norton AntiVirus. Automatically removal of viruses can be done in tiring room by Norton AntiVirus™. Viruses and spyware in emails, messages, compressed file archives, downloads and other links can be monitored and blocked, working quietly in the background.

Ease of Installation

The installation of Norton Antivirus 2008 is rather long but not too troublesome. We do have to sign up for a Symantec account to finish the installation, which is used for downloading updates as well as keeping track of updates and other support information. The reinstallation caused by the failure of update needs you to uninstall Norton Antivirus 2008. Its uninstall program can not remove all its components and you have to pay attention to delete them when you do not use it anymore.

Help/Support

You can quickly make one click to get access to expert support of Norton Antivirus 2008. They still offer free online chat and email support, their phone support option is still $9.95 per incident. Beyond this, they estimate a 30 minute wait time. The email support will be the best choice because the others will need more running conditions.

Summary

Norton Antivirus 2008 is an antivirus and antispyware product with a great number of users. It is very popular with many people, especially the enterprises. The protection provided by Norton is quite good, even excellent while removing viruses, spyware, and rootkits are not so predominant. Update and download is not bad. The problem is that its dispersed processes will cover small resources separately, but which will be a big number totally in you PC. Its tracking features are very helpful with keeping viruses off of computers. It also has significant issues with slowing down computers that it is protecting. Even Norton Antivirus 2008 has Bugs and not as effective as it should be against spyware, it is a good product for keeping your computer safe from viruses.