The new edition of NIS,Norton aims to enhance user experience and bring more information to the user.To this end,the insight feature lets you view processor and memory usage,important downloads,installations and scan points historically against a timeline.At the same tim,Norton has muted the pop up alerts by giving users the option to control notifications.One of the newer features added to this edition is a reputation engine called Quorum.This is norton's attempt at going beyond heuristics and virus signatures to try to detect unknown threats.It cross references files you are downloading,with data from other users who have downloaded the same file.If there is not enough information about the file,it asks you to steer clear for a while.
Other options in the package include customising idle time usage for scans as well as battery management for portables.With this edition it takes a page out of NIS 2009,by keeping its footprint as small as possible.Rounding up all the modules in this suite such as firewall,new safe web protection that annotates links in search results,network security map and password management;NIS 2010 is a good overall AV solution for most purposes.There is also a parental control feature that requires users to download another small application called safetyminder--a small gripe since it could have as well been included in the main package.Overall its a good anit-virus software.
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