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Old 29-08-2007, 03:42 PM   #1 (permalink)
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There are two fresh new options for bulletproofing Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows Vista, from Symantec. Norton AntiVirus 2008 and Norton Internet Security 2008 are both designed to integrate seamlessly with Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business and Ultimate as well as with Windows XP SP2 Home, XP Pro and XP Media Center Edition. Symantec stressed especially the aspect that its new and improved offerings have been redesigned in order to deliver increased performance. The Cupertino-based security company underscored that Norton AntiVirus 2008 and Norton Internet Security 2008 "start, scan and run faster - improved performance delivers an enhanced online experience". With such a move, Symantec addressed one of the major shortcomings of its security
solutions, but it remains to be seen if the new products will be able to convince and to alter the existing customer perception.

"The new Norton 2008 products deliver comprehensive security, home network monitoring, performance and more, allowing you to have confidence in your connected world. See how our 2008 products have been enhanced to provide comprehensive protection against new and emerging threats, while providing significant gains in performance," reveals the description of the Norton 2008 solutions. One of the new additions to Norton Internet Security 2008 is Norton Identity Safe, designed to ensure the protection of personal sensitive data in scenarios involving online transactions.

Additionally, the BrowserDefender technology will protect Internet Explorer 7 against attacks involving everything from obfuscated code to JavaScript, VBScript and even the ubiquitous ActiveX controls. As a part of the overhaul suffered by Norton AntiVirus 2008 and Norton Internet Security 2008, the two products have been pushed to the background, as tasks that normally relied on user interaction have become automated. On top of this, the two Norton 2008 solutions come with SONAR, Symantec's behavioral detection technology designed to fight exploits and malware associated with zero day vulnerabilities.

In a recent anti-virus comparative put together by AV-Test, Symantec barely managed to position itself ahead of Microsoft. The Redmond company, a newcomer on the security industry grabbed the tenth place with OneCare and Forefront, while Symantec climbed as high as ninth place. And while the Cupertino-based security company is a household name on the market, Microsoft is currently breathing down its neck accounting for a detection rate of 96.42% while Symantec's was just 96.75%.

Norton AntiVirus 2008 is available for download here.
And Norton Internet Security 2008 can be downloaded via this link.
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Old 29-08-2007, 03:56 PM   #2 (permalink)
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and i thot norton and mcaffee hid their faces in shame and then committed suicide after looking at nod32 and kaspersky products! kudos to their effrontery attitude :/
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Old 29-08-2007, 04:04 PM   #3 (permalink)
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^^ arre what kudos they fought MS on vista's kernel lock so that they coould provide a mere .33% improvement they got to be kidding me ... MS just enterd anti-viral business and they are .33% less than Symantec, which says im a virus and whose sole business is computer security ... its a joke .... die symantech die
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Old 29-08-2007, 04:26 PM   #4 (permalink)
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that "kudos" of mine indicated sarcasm, obviously!!!
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Old 29-08-2007, 04:51 PM   #5 (permalink)
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thanks tech genius
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Norton is a RAM Sucker
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Old 29-08-2007, 06:11 PM   #7 (permalink)
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No thanx....ad muncher & common sence rox
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Yeh, who will use Norton.
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Old 29-08-2007, 06:21 PM   #9 (permalink)
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hmmm 2008 version even still 4 mnths for 2008....

so we might get to see norton antiviurs 2010 in 2008 october.....lolzz
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Let's see how it fares on my xp-sp2.
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Old 30-08-2007, 12:14 PM   #11 (permalink)
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well if some one says Nortol is good.. i say RIP....

Its the first AV which I have MAX
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Old 30-08-2007, 03:55 PM   #12 (permalink)
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norton 2008 ....... oooh ...........


did even try norton 2007 & 4 months still left 4 this year 2 end & their product is ready2 ........


hope they improve it, regarding RAM & backingup V Definitions .........
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Free crap for Windows Vista. download quick!!
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I just tried the Trial version, & I can't believe I m saying this. NAV 2008 is less CPU resource hog then KAV 7. This while running on a Computer with Windows Vista, 2 GB RAM. Pentium 4 3.06 GHz CPU with hyperthreading.

RAM usage was more then KAV, but I got 2 GB RAM so not worrying about that, but the CPU usage was less then KAV 7.
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yeah KAV 7 is quite heavy on Vista.... so stopped using it and using Symantec Antivirus Corporate... quite light !!!!!
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Old 01-09-2007, 07:16 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Old news for me..already beta was out a month b4..we hv released the 2008 last week..avail thru symantec as wel as retails stores..One gud news is all 2006, 2007 Norton users can freely upgrade to 2008 products if they hv a valid subscription..

Also the cu wil b prompted reg this usin LiveUpdate notice..

2008 --> Many new features for networking, cool UI, lightweight.

Addl. info --> Norton add-on pack V2 for NIS 2008 is also released.
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