Norton Antivirus 2009

Norton Antivirus is one of the most popular antirus programs in the World . Will defend your PC while you are surfing or chatting, emailing or file swapping. Norton AntiVirus fight against a host of Internet threats. It automatically detects and removes viruses, rids your computer of unwanted spyware, and scans email and IM attachments for threats. Detects and removes viruses and spyware Blocks spyware and worms automatically.Prevents emails who are infectedchecking them before downloading on your email client.

Features added in latest version:
· Scans only files and processes at risk using Norton™ Insight.
· Prevents bots from taking control of your PC.
·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.
· IMPROVED! Defends against Web-based attacks.
· Automatically detects and removes spyware, viruses, Trojans, bots and Internet worms.
· Recovery tool boots and repairs badly infected PCs.
· Detects and automatically removes malicious threats.
· Installs in under one minute on average, requires less than 8 MB of memory.
· Delivers up-to-the-minute protection with rapid pulse updates every 5 to 15 minutes.
· IMPROVED! Provides multilayered security through the Norton™ Protection System.
· Delivers our most complete, deep cleaning scan possible.
· Norton Automatic Renewal Service helps to ensure that you’re protected by automatically renewing your product subscription before it expires.

Has a long time for setup because is pretty huge (around 40 mb) than other antiviruses(Kaspersky have 23 mb and McAfee 9 mb)
Norton AntiVirus options:
- Account
- Help
- Technical Support
- Live Update
- Scan now
- View History
Account will send you to the login page (www.mynortonaccount.com/amsweb). Pressing Live Update you can choose what components you need to be updated : crimeware definitions,firewall,worm internet protection definitions,virus definitions,protection center,security software,shared components and trusted application list. This basic security program include virus protection,anti spyware,inbound firewall and full system scan.Offers you real time protection for instant messengers , scan outgoing emails and all the emails who you receive.
Symantec provide online technical support for this program at http://www.symantec.com/norton/support/index.jsp. You can run a quick scan or a full system control against viruses,adware,trojans etc.Also,view the status of protection categories and manage files dropped in quarantine.The author recommend to run updates regularly because new virus definitions are discovered every day. A plus for this program is the help center:very good organized and cover all the possible problems .Control Center offer you support for phishing,crimeware and pharming issues .

· very good protection
· good design

· 300 MHz or faster processor
· 256 MB of RAM (512 MB RAM required for the Recovery Tool)
· 150 MB of available hard disk space.