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Norton Internet Security 2010 beta: Screenshots By Renai LeMay, ZDNet.com.au July 08, 2009 URL: http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/security/soa/Norton-Internet-Security-2010-beta-Screenshots/0,139023764,339297280,00.htm
This week Symantec made beta versions of its flagship Norton Internet Security 2010 and Antivirus 2010 products available for testing. We put NIS 2010 through its paces to see how it stacks up. The 2010 editions of Norton introduce a security concept Symantec is calling "reputation". Symantec describes reputation as the ability to leverage the anonymous data contributions of its millions of customers about the characteristics of the applications running on their systems. "This data enables Symantec to calculate a reputation safety score for each application," Symantec said in a statement. "Without ever having to ask the user, Symantec can statistically infer with an extremely high degree of accuracy the likelihood of an unknown application being good or bad." We installed the beta of Norton Internet Security 2010 in a virtualised environment using Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Sun's Virtual Box 3.0. (Credit: Renai LeMay/ZDNet.com.au) |Unlike with many installation programs, this progress bar seems to accurately measure progress. Credit: Renai LeMay/ZDNet.com.au |Serial numbers haven't disappeared with the new version. (Credit: Renai LeMay/ZDNet.com.au) |The basic home screen for the software is simple, streamlined, and quite similar to that of the software's predecessor, Norton 2009. (Credit: Renai LeMay/ZDNet.com.au) |You can easily run quick, complete or custom malware scans. Credit: Renai LeMay/ZDNet.com.au |The scanning dialog. (Credit: Renai LeMay/ZDNet.com.au) |Updates coming down the tubes from Symantec HQ. (Credit: Renai LeMay/ZDNet.com.au) |Norton Internet Security can provide a map of your local network so you can work out which machines are secure and which are not. (Credit: Renai LeMay/ZDNet.com.au) |We found the settings dialog very comprehensive ... a little too much so, at times. (Credit: Renai LeMay/ZDNet.com.au) |Norton's Identity Safe feature allows users to securely store web log-in credentials, as well as other information such as credit cards and addresses. (Credit: Renai LeMay/ZDNet.com.au) |Norton automatically installed its plug-in in Internet Explorer. (Credit: Renai LeMay/ZDNet.com.au) |Drilling down into performance data. (Credit: Renai LeMay/ZDNet.com.au) |Application ratings link into Norton's reputation system, leveraging data from its massive global user base. (Credit: Renai LeMay/ZDNet.com.au) |Scheduling scans and other activities. (Credit: Renai LeMay/ZDNet.com.au) |You can temporarily turn off features like the firewall, but Norton will make you feel just a little bit naughty doing so. (Credit: Renai LeMay/ZDNet.com.au)
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