• SONAR 3 Behavioral Protection has been improved over the previous SONAR 2 by monitoring your PC for suspicious behavior to quickly detect new online threats.
• Norton Bootable Recovery is a more powerful version that creates an emergency CD/DVD/USB that gets you back up and running even if your PC has become so infected that it won’t even start up. It will help you clean your system when it becomes infected with really nasty stuff and your system won't boot. This is only for when it is a last resort. The one in 2011 is much easier to use and there is a wizard that will walk you right through the process. It now includes support for netbook computers as well.
• Messaging area on the Norton Internet Security Home screen is now included near the bottom that was designed to bring convenient access and at-a-glance status for a number of Norton’s web-based services (Safe Web, Norton Online Family, Online Backup) as well as a global Internet Protection Map into the main user interface.
• Norton Safe Web has now added the ability to check links on your Facebook Wall and Newsfeed to see if there are any malware links or sites that contain malware. Now this tool is actually a Facebook app and you will have to give it permission to access your stream for this to work. It will also ask you if you want to post results to your Wall, but this is purely optional.
• Norton Power Eraser (NPE) is a free, advanced tool that is separate from Norton Internet Security. It eliminates deeply embedded and difficult to remove malware like fake anti-virus programs that traditional virus scanning can’t always detect, and that may actually be preventing you from installing an anti-virus program in the first place. NPE takes on difficult to detect malware known as "scareware" or "rogueware" that cybercriminals use to trick computer users into unknowingly downloading threats onto their PC. This growing form of crimeware uses bogus pop-up alerts or security messages that hold computers hostage until a user agrees to purchase costly access to a removal tool with their credit card. These rogue security programs can be so stealthy that they automatically download onto a PC without the user even clicking, interacting or acknowledging a download. NPE is specially designed to aggressively target and eliminate this type of crimeware and restore your PC back to good health.
Article comments
1 - Mark
Personally, Norton has never done me any good. At home, the one time I actually did get a virus, it just sat there telling me vague generalities about it, but would do nothing about it. At the office with Symantec Endpoint, viruses and malware sneak through on users' computers all the time that have to then be dealt with manually.
This version may remedy some of that, but I'm perfectly happy using Avast (free to all) and careful clicking.
2 - Brian aka Guppusmaximus
I have to agree with Mark. It's a little known secret in the IT world that if you want repeat business just advise your clients to use Norton or McAfee products for PC security overall. It's been proven over & over that the free solutions that exist nowadays are far more effective then the ones you pay top dollar for. Plus, programs like AVG, Avast, Antivir or Microsoft Security Essentials (which I use)run much lighter then those "premium" programs do.
The other misconception is that Internet Security programs can handle the job of protecting your computer all by themselves... Wrong! People need to be proactive by using multiple tools like Spybot and as a first line of defense, using Firefox with its helpful add-ons like NoScript, AdBlock Plus & Ghostery.