Norton Internet Security 2011 – 1 User/3 PC [Download]
- Protect yourself with the proven fastest, lightest Internet security suite in the industry
- Email, chat, and browse without getting or passing on viruses
- Defend your identity against cybercriminals when you surf, shop, and bank online
- Stop cybercriminals with industry-leading, up-to-the-minute protection
- Keep your kids safe when they go online with parental control management
Viruses, cybercriminals, and other threats can make the Internet a dangerous place. Protect yourself with Norton Internet Security 2011. The fastest, lightest security suite you can buy, Norton Internet Security 2011 safeguards your PC without slowing it down. You’ll enjoy rock-solid security without sacrificing performance. Norton Internet Security 2011 helps prevent cybercriminals from stealing your identity and your hard-earned money when you search, surf, shop, socialize, and bank online. Improved Norton Safe Web warns you of unsafe websites and suspicious online merchants right in your search results. It even blocks known malicious sites to help keep you from getting scammed. Norton Identity Safe remembers and secures your user names and passwords and then automatically enters them for you when you bank, shop, or socialize online. It prevents eavesdropping cybercriminals from swiping your information and saves you time. Norton Internet Security 2011 also detects and eliminates viruses, spyware, and other threats, letting you email, chat, and download files without getting or passing on threats to family and friends. Norton Pulse Updates provide mini-updates every 5–15 minutes without interrupting you or slowing down your PC to help ensure you’re protected against new threats that appear. And in case of emergency, new Norton Rescue Tools can help you get even severely infected PCs up and running fast. Norton Internet Security 2011 even identifies problems that could affect your PC’s performance and proactively notifies you when an application is slowing down your PC’s performance or using up system resources.
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Review by Gene Cloner for Norton Internet Security 2011 – 1 User/3 PC [Download]
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I have been using Norton Antivirus/Internet security for years now (on 3 PCs running XP) and the big turn around for the past few years with ‘light’ software has been great. Most times, issues have been due to non-removal of other/earlier versions of Norton software.
Installation: The recent improvements in installation are continuing to be great. I was able to upgrade from NIS2010 to 2011 in under 2 minutes. If you still have license period left from your previous installation, choose to upgrade using Norton upgrade option (You’ll get pop-up notice or check Support – Check new version/product update). If you upgrade using the disc, it will over-write your existing license period (doesn’t make sense, but that is the case here). However, after internet upgrade, you can enter the license code from the disc to extend the license for another year (existing period + one year). During installation, you may notice wireless connection disconnecting a couple of times, annoying, but doesn’t affect anything.
Performance: There have been slight improvement in performance this year. The virus signature and upgrades are downloaded in small size files in the background. So you do not feel it running in the background even in some older computers. I am still using WinXP and therefore cannot comment on Win7 compatibility.
Security: I haven’t had attacks that damaged anything, but Norton did report preventing several Trojan-type attacks. If you or people that you share the computer with connect to unsecured wifi networks, often visit download sites or click links from email or visit other potentially unsafe websites, you should set the update scheduler to constantly look for signature updates rather than schedule signature updates at computer idle time. This is going to take sometime and perhaps more resources, but definitely enhances security.
As in previous versions, the Firefox and IE companion generates a browser toolbar which prompts sites of potential danger (phasing sites etc.). It also identifies most of the secure websites (amazon, credit card, bank websites, hotmail, gmail) as safe websites.
Norton has the option to use their password manager, but just like last version, the password manager is not so secure. Basically you can store your passwords and access them using a single password for the manager. However, occasionally, you can login to password manager by clicking cancel and not entering the password!!
Norton uses a website-based parental control option now. Despite being called a different name and being able to set profiles for family members, it is not reliable and not well thought-out. It blocks google claiming that it is a discussion website, but allows yahoo without any problem. Similarly, occasionally you can get in to blocked websites just using the ‘back’ button in the browser.
Overall, it is still a great piece of software for protection against internet threats, but password management and parental security may not be Norton’s forte.
Review by Vidis for Norton Internet Security 2011 – 1 User/3 PC [Download]
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Well, after a few month of beta testing I guess it’s time to give everybody my opinion. Since 2010 Norton became my favorite security suite for my PC, and this one is no exception. I tested it on 3 different PC running XP Pro, Vista H.P.32bit and Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit. Once you get this software it will let you install on 3 different computers. Haven’t tested 64bit version, but I’m pretty sure it should work the same. For those who already has a 2010 edition you won’t see mush of the changes, it’s more like refined version, which is a very good thing. For the interface it keeps the dark theme, with yellow text, but moves the large graphic security status indicator from the main interface window up to the task-bar and system tray icons. The UI is impressively easy to use. It’s still very fast light on resources, with an extremely good protection. As for everybody else here’s what to expect:
Installation: Once you run the installer, the program is ready to operate in about a minute truly fast just like 2010 version.
Interface: Like I mentioned it has a dark theme (sorry no skins) with a yellow text. Security controls are condensed into three sections in the main window: computer protection, network protection, plus a Web protection. For those who wonders, what is that map at the bottom of the interface, it represents a threat to each of its users that has been successfully blocked.
Features & Performance: The thing that makes NIS stand up it tracks your browser, instant messenger and peer to peer activities of their global customer base to check which files, links and websites have been safely used. So let’s say if you are one among the first ones to download a specific file it will ask you whether or not you want to execute it. For a facebook users it has a Facebook Scan app, which checks links on facebook to determine if they connect to any sites containing malware. As for additional tools it has some few freebies like Norton Online Family parental controls, and the new Norton Power Eraser. It’s a new tool that will aggressively clean your PC of fake antivirus programs and other malware that prevents legitimate security tools from being installed. Very nice thing is called Norton Safe Web, which is a browser toolbar that can alert you to any potential dangerous links. It works with IE and Firefox.
As going straight for the performance (little fact outside my own observation)- in independent threat detection and removal tests, Norton is rated as the best performer overall. Now back to my facts
- In a few month of usage, I’ve seen no crashes that I could relate to NIS 2011. As far as resources goes, NIS 2011 didn’t appear to slow down my system at all. It uses very little memory. Good thing since I have a 4 year old and two 3 year old PC’s with 2GB and 3GB of RAM. That is a good news for a notebook users too.
Bottoms down, with a great security features like checking on your entire network, bootable recovery tool, easy interface, superb protection and lite on resources performance – to me this is the best Security software around. I would highly recommend it to anyone. Plus with ability to use the same key on 3 different PC’s you can split the cost with your friend or family member if you only own one computer.
Review by do-not-ask-me for Norton Internet Security 2011 – 1 User/3 PC [Download]
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I just got a very powerful (Fastest Intel chip avail and 20GB memory) PC with Win 7 on it. After a week, I put Norton IS 2011 on it. Well my performance is now noticeably slower but still within reason. After a day or 2 my CPU settled back down to about 1% on idle and only an additional 10% of my memory.
This version seems to have done a better job in letting programs I already have installed and working to continue to work. I have a lot of SW that communicates over different ports, etc. and this has not seemed to block any of them. (A major plus for me). The setup interface seems simple, but if you look at the definitions (and you will need to), Norton IS (NIS) defines things opposite from what I would have expected. So that made it almost painful to have to go through every item, look up the definitions in their help and then choose what I wanted. By default, it seemed to leave some things “open” that I would have closed and was way too “automated” for my tastes. I prefer being asked what to do. Even going through all that, not all the options clearly tell you that when you have the option set to “on” it will not ask, and when “off” it will still scan but will ask. Giving them credit, some of the options are clear and say “ask me” as an option (very few compared to previous NIS releases).
One of my biggest complaints has to do with cookies in the browser. There are many cookies I want to keep – some for work and some just cause I want them (like tvguide.com) I like it when it is setup the way I want. Well NIS considers it a tracking cookie (and it probably is) but I want to keep it. My problem is, it found 20 others that I do want to get rid of. So it gives me 2 choices, Exclude all of them from future scans or Delete them all. Nothing in between. I cannot even add the one cookie to the exclude list in some other way (I confirmed this with NIS support). It picked up others (work releated SW programs) I want to keep too (not just tvguide.com)… but I cannot keep just those… grrr… they need to fix this. Deleting all or no cookies is so early Microsoft IE, which they even fixed (well, to a point).
I do not use their Parental Controls (no need) and their Identity Safe (heard too many issues from professional reviews) so I am not taking my chances. Otherwise it is ok from what I can tell. The interface is fancy – a bit too fancy at times – do I really need to know what the threat levels are around the world in real time to my PC (Wish I could shut that off and gain the network bandwidth back).
Oh and one final grief – I told it to scan my web pages, so it added an add-on to my MS IE and Mozilla Firefox, well it did so by adding a row onto the header info. It will not allow me to move it, size it or combine it with other rows like I can with the other “row items (like Favorites / Home / Page)”. It is (once again) an all or nothing deal. Keep it there and lose a line of space at the top, or remove it and get no status. Grrr.
Review by GT Man for Norton Internet Security 2011 – 1 User/3 PC [Download]
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I’ve been using norton internet security since the 2009 version. That was the year they revamped the software to use minimal resouces. Im using this on three machines, two windows 7 and one vista and it runs great.
Review by Margaret Tassey for Norton Internet Security 2011 – 1 User/3 PC [Download]
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I have used Norton security since the days of Peter Norton and DOS, although there were a few years when the product was so slow and bloated that I used other security products. With 2009, I returned because the product improved and they actually added usable tech support.
This review is for regular folks who just want to know: (1) Does it work? (2)Can I install and use it without messing up my computer? and (3) if something goes wrong can I get some help I can use?
(1)Yes, it works well. Independent tests show it in the top group for its features. Some other products work better in some areas. No product is perfect and some of the ones that are more aggressive cause other problems.
(2) It is very easy to install and it does not bug you with a lot of questions you don’t know the answer to. It keeps itself up to date and you are not aware of scans (with some programs the whole system slows to a crawl during scans).
(3) If something goes wrong, the program is very good at correcting itself without bothering you much. If you need more help, like with a reinstall, you can get “chat” help (better than phone help) that can take over your machine and do what they need to do to get you back running.
One thing that is not so well advertised is that once you have one of these modern versions of Norton Internet Security, you can upgrade for free. So if you already have NIS 2010 – just upgrade. Under HELP is a button for Check for new version. After that, just follow the prompts. You need to buy a new subscription each year, but you can keep upgrading to the latest version. And you should.