Norton Internet Security 2012 download free

Publisher's Description

From Symantec:

Norton Internet Aegis 2012 lets you email, babble and cream the Web after annoying about cybercriminals ripping you off. It delivers aegis from online dangers after sacrificing performance. It guards adjoin online character annexation so you can shop, coffer and appointment amusing networks with confidence. It updates automatically, offers easy-to-use appearance and includes chargeless chump abutment during your cable period.

What's fresh in this version:

* Customizable Control Centermost gives you the advantage to accept your alternative amid a simplified awning or the acceptable abundant view.

* Character Safe alerts accept confused to the Norton Toolbar so there are beneath interruptions while you are online - but your passwords are still as defended as ever.

* Bandwidth Administration banned Norton's processes and updates back you accept bound bandwidth or account downloads.

The basal line: Low-impact performance, able security, and advantageous appearance are the hallmarks of Norton Internet Aegis 2012, one of the best aegis suites available.

Norton Internet Security 2012

Review:

Editors' note: Portions of this assay are based on CNET's assay of Norton Internet Aegis 2011.

Over the accomplished few years, Symantec has completed a advance changeabout for its Norton chump Internet aegis suites. The massive amalgamation of aegis accoutrement works added good than it anytime has before, with an absorbing set of features, some advantageous fresh accoutrement including alien administration and download adherence analysis, and third-party aegis ability benchmarks that are at the top of the heap. Meanwhile, CNET Labs' achievement benchmarks announce that admitting Norton doesn't leave the aboriginal brand on your system, users should see a basal appulse overall.

Installation

For the third year in a row, Norton's aforetime apathetic barbarian now offers a bland and fast accession operation. Once you run the installer, the affairs is accessible to accomplish in about a minute--impressively fast, and doubly so because accomplished performance. The accession action is additionally the aboriginal time that you will collaborate with Quorum, Norton's behavior-based apprehension engine. You'll be asked to participate by sending bearding abstracts to Symantec's cloud. Opting out of the abstracts submission, according to Symantec, will not affect your security.

Running the balloon of Norton additionally requires registering the program. Like abounding programs, Norton acclimated to force accessible your absence browser and booty you to the company's allotment Web site. Now you can annals from aural the program. Uninstalling thecomputer application larboard about 10 Registry entries behind, but no added traces were detectable. Overall, Norton's accession acquaintance was fast and hassle-free, with a minimum of agreement options--but the ones that did appear up appeared necessary.

Interface

Norton Internet Aegis 2012 contains some changes to the 2011 interface, although the architecture is heavily evocative of the antecedent version. It keeps the aphotic theme, alternate by chicken text, and the adverse works well. Changes this year accommodate a reorganized and automated Settings interface; a "pinnable" Advanced screen--so that ability users can get about their business faster--which additionally comes with a CPU gauge; and tweaks to the Arrangement Cachet indicator. This year, the interface feels added counterbalanced amid the affection affectation and abandoned space.

The simplified blueprint offers Scans on the left, Updates in the center, and Advanced accoutrement on the right. Clicking on one reveals controls specific to that across of protection. At the basal of the interface is a wide, abbreviate map of the apple covered with blinking chicken dots. Each one, according to Symantec, represents a blackmail to one of its users that has been auspiciously blocked. The Activity Map beheld is cute, but absolutely extraneous to your claimed safety. Added absorbing is that beneath the map there are a alternation of adaptable app-style buttons. From there you can admission the fresh Norton Management, Norton Mobile, Norton Online Family, Norton Safe Web, and Norton Backup after accepting to jump to your browser.

Features and support

There aren't abounding fresh appearance in Norton Internet Aegis 2012, but what's fresh care to address to the affectionate of actuality who wants the souped-up aegis in this able-bodied suite.

There's now a articulation at the basal of the capital interface to Norton's adaptable version. Next to it is a articulation for Norton Management, a fresh apparatus that opens in your absence Web browser that allows you to use Norton remotely. This includes ecology aegis status, alien add and installation, and authorization key renewal. However, accustomed the advance of the adaptable market, it wouldn't be absurd to apprehend a stronger affiliation amid the two in the advancing year.

One of the added good fresh appearance is a change to Download Insight. This community-driven apparatus originally evaluated files actuality downloaded for security, but now it looks at their adherence for added Norton users, too. There are additionally metered bandwidth options for bodies on rate-limited connections, and several interface tweaks to accomplish the affairs easier on the eyes and to accomplish it easier to acquisition things.

The anchorage of Norton 360's startup administrator was an accomplished call. If you're Windows-savvy, you're apparently adequate managing that actuality by hand, but alike for those in the know, the Norton adaptation makes startup changes easier to implement. Along with affairs in association ratings, you can toggle a action on or off, or adjournment it.

The Character Safe has been improved, too. It now includes LastPass-styled countersign administration and cloud-based syncing and vaults, appearance that some competitors accept had for a while. Google Chrome assuredly gets Safe Web abutment from Norton, but it's decidedly not in Norton AntiVirus. While I accept the point of value-added features, this one seems an unnecessarily akin hit on users of the fastest-growing browser.

The reputation-based aegis checks area your programs were installed from and back they were installed, and compares that adjoin abstracts from the 58 actor users accommodating in the crowd-sourced Norton Association Watch to see if any of your programs should be red-flagged. Norton's Arrangement Insight basic has been bumped up to adaptation 2.0; Arrangement Insight is the proprietary centralized arrangement that warns you back your programs unnecessarily hog arrangement resources. This gives some added backpack to the arrangement achievement map, area you can bang on any fasten and see what acquired it.

The third abundance of Download Insight applies the aforementioned reputation-based argumentation to fresh downloads, and the fourth adaptation of Norton SONAR (Symantec Online Arrangement for Automatic Response) looks for suspiciouscomputer application behavior and automatically chooses careful actions. You can toggle how advancing SONAR is in the Settings window.

Along with the quick scan, the full-system scan, and the custom browse for bacilli and malware, you can now accept Norton browse your Facebook bank for awful links. There are additionally on-demand reputation-based quick scans, abounding scans, and custom scans for users who appetite Norton to anon browse their installed programs. After commutual a scan, Norton provides users with a arbitrary report. More-detailed information, including browse continuance and a added dive into threats discovered, can be apprehend beneath the History advantage from the capital window. There's additionally a articulation that you can chase in case you accept that Norton absent article in its scan, although as reputation-based aegis matures, on-demand scanning becomes beneath of an affair back compared with the "always-on" aegis offered here.

The bootable accretion apparatus isn't new, but it now comes with a affection that automatically creates a CD, DVD, or USB-based bootable device. The USB basic is abnormally important on optical-drive-free systems such as Netbooks.

Norton continues to dabble in chargeless aegis offerings, including the Norton Online Family affectionate controls, the "lite" adaptation of Norton Safe Web, and the fresh Norton Ability Eraser. Ability Eraser is a fresh apparatus that will aggressively apple-pie your computer of affected antivirus programs and added malware that prevents accepted aegis accoutrement from actuality installed.

As with the blow of the program, the abutment options accept been automated abaft a drop-down card in the top appropriate of the interface. Help opens bounded support, Tutorials leads to a Web armpit with all-encompassing how-tos, and the Get Abutment articulation accesses the across of Norton's chump abutment in a fresh window. Here, users can babble with tech abutment 24-7, analyze the user manual, and analysis out the Norton FAQ and ability base. Buzz abutment is additionally available, although Symantec takes allotment in the trend to accomplish buzz abutment harder to admission by funneling users to online resources.

Performance

Norton's fast accession and absolute affection set would be abortive after solid performance, and Norton Internet Aegis 2012 delivers acutely aerial third-party ability benchmarks and able achievement benchmarks.

In a real-world test, Norton 2012 completed a Quick Browse in 2 minutes, 43 seconds; the Abounding Browse took 1 hour 43 account and 54 seconds. While the Abounding Browse boilerplate is commensurable to aftermost year's, the Quick Browse was about 1 minute and 30 abnormal slower than aftermost year's average.

CNET Labs' benchmarks begin both Norton Internet Aegis 2012 and Norton AntiVirus 2012 to accept performed well, although not as acerb as some of their competitors. Note that we can't anon analyze this year's after-effects with aftermost year's because we upgraded our testing computer from Windows 7 x64 to Windows 7 x64 with Service Pack 1.

NIS 2012 slowed bottomward the Labs' computer cossack time by about 11.8 seconds, one of the fastest array this year, admitting NAV 2012 added an unimpressive 21.2 seconds. This is in band with antecedent years, which saw NIS do added good on cossack than NAV.

Both had a actual baby appulse on the computer's abeyance time, slowing it bottomward alone by about 4 abnormal compared with an caught computer. Browse times for both were disappointingly boilerplate in the Labs; in antecedent years, they were aggressively competitive. However, our in-use arrangement achievement tests, the iTunes decoding, Microsoft Office, media multitasking, and Cinebench tests, showed both Norton suites accepting a low-level appulse on our analysis computer. This agency that, all things actuality equal, you're not activity to apprehension abundant back Norton is alive as you go about your accretion business.

*All tests abstinent in seconds, except for Cinebench. On the Cinebench test, the college cardinal is better.

In absolute blackmail apprehension and abatement tests, Norton is a top performer. In the AV-Test.org analysis on Windows 7 from the aboriginal division of 2011, Norton Internet Aegis 2011 denticulate 15 out of 18 overall, one of the added good suites tested. The apartment had a 5.5 appraisement out of 6 in Protection, a 5.0 in Repair, and a 4.5 in Usability.

The second-quarter 2011 test, on a Windows XP computer, absolutely showed advance in some areas and corruption in others. It denticulate 13.5 out of 18 overall, a solid midrange score. The apartment bigger in Aegis and Repair with a 5.0 appraisement out of 6 for both, but Usability alone to 3.5 best acceptable due to apocryphal positives.

Third-quarter after-effects aren't in yet, but after-effects aggregate by AV-Test.org with CNET announce that the apartment continues to accomplish well. It alveolate a 98.94 percent malware apprehension rate, college than the all-embracing boilerplate amount of 97.31 percent in August 2011 acceptance testing, but not as aerial as some competitors, such as Bitdefender. The apartment was able to abolish 83.3 percent of alive malware infections, alone hardly college than the industry boilerplate of 80 percent. In AV-Test.org's zero-day attacks test, Bitdefender blocked 100 percent of the attacks, compared with the boilerplate August 2011 acceptance after-effects of 92.16 percent. The apartment additionally did not acquisition any apocryphal positives.

The best contempo AV-Comparatives.org Whole Product test, which looks at on-demand scanning, attendant tests, and "real-world" guards including cloud-based protections, puts Norton Internet Aegis 2011 against the advanced of the class, out of 17 suites tested. Attractive at Whole Product analysis after-effects cumulatively from January 2011 to June 2011 begin that AVG came in 13th, blocking 99.1 percent of threats.

Dennis Technology Labs, a affiliate of the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO), begin in January 2011 that Norton Internet Aegis 2011 becoming an all-embracing aegis account of 142 (PDF), angry with Trend Micro. Norton additionally had aught false-positive warnings during the test.

Following the aisle blazed by Norton 2009 through 2011, Norton continues to body a able achievement almanac based on accomplished detection, fast browse times, and low apocryphal positives. However, it's bright that according to some tests, there's been some baby slippage.

Conclusion

Symantec positions its exceptional aegis suite, Norton Internet Aegis 2012, as one of the best paid-license aegis suites available. The bound affiliation of behavioral blackmail detection, in affiliation with austere absorption to download stability, makes Norton a acute choice. The account are worthwhile, too, abnormally for bodies attractive for one aegis band-aid that includes mobile. There's no agnosticism that this is comprehensive, able-bodied aegis that users can put their assurance in.