Norton 2011 BETA

For many people it feels that we have just started into 2010. Well, in the fast moving world of security, we are always having to adapt and innovate. So, to that end, yesterday we released into BETA NAV 2011 and NIS 2011. This provides an insight into what we are planning for your next release of these products. The 2011 Norton BETAs are being developed to improve or maintain key performance benchmarks in installation times, scan times, and memory usage. In addition, the products will include System Insight 2.0 which goes beyond security and alerts users when applications are significantly impacting their system resources.

At the heart of this Norton release is the industry leading reputation-based security technology. New to 2011, Download Insight 2.0  increases the breadth of the product’s reputation protection by applying it to virtually every download  regardless of the client (browser, email, IM).  This helps ensure that users are protected from harmful downloads no matter how the file is delivered to their machine. Additionally, Norton 2011 uses the reputation information to report on the “trustworthiness” of files on a system and help users understand if their download behavior is more or less risky versus the 53 million Norton Community Watch members today.  You can download it here.

Furthermore we are also providing into BETA some additional tools. Symantec is announcing several new tools in the fight against cybercrime. These tools will remain free and address some of today’s trickiest and most prevalent issues related to malware infection and removal. We are introducing Norton Safe Web for Facebook, that will scan feeds for malicious URLs. You can download it here.

Norton Power Eraser is a tool specifically designed to help find and remove those ‘scareware’ applications that are adept at deceiving you and prove difficult to remove. You can down load it here.

Finally, we have the Norton Bootable Recovery Tool, which  allows Norton users to boot a PC into a safe state when a system is so deeply infected that it will not properly start up. New this year, the Norton Bootable Recovery Tool wizard automatically creates a CD/DVD/USB bootable device in a quick and easy way. You can download it here.

April 20, 2010 | Filed Under Announcements, Security 

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