New Norton 360 Version 2.0

Norton 360, Symantec comprehensive package for security, data backup and tuning of the PC, gives a small step forward with the version that appears 2 this year.

This collection of user friendly applications costs $ 79 for three PCs and covers all the bases, but in our tests its security protection was not very good to say. The enhanced role for backup allows greater control over previous versions of this tool and lets you send files to an iPod, a storage site online and traditional destinations of backups, but in our testing we had problems to restore files from online storage site.

The well-designed menu control this set of security programs shows four major indicators of health for the Safety of PC Protection identity, and Backup To perfect PC. The menus are Descuelga tasks of each button when the mouse passes over them.



Norton 360 Version 2.0
Symantec
This suite of security covers all the bases in a package easy to use, but its protection for the PC is not spectacular.
List price: U.S. $ 79 (license for three PC)
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The Security PC includes virus detection and protection with firewall, Symantec said that the core of their detection of malicious programs has not changed, but the version 2 adds a useful blocking vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. In the test for the German company AV-Test, Norton 360 blocked 96.36 percent of enormous zoo Trojan horses, robots and other malicious software that keeps AV-Test, an adequate but not stellar performance.

The tests that measure the ability of the application to detect unknown threats produced mixed results: the set detected only 27.81 percent of the thousands of new malicious programs and inactive that tried to acknowledge with signatures of one month's existence. But halted 80 percent of threats from malicious programs in the ample evidence of behaviour AV-Test, which measure the ability of an antivirus program to recognize malicious programs based on how the code is acting suspicious.

The Protection of identity adds a toolbar to IE and Firefox to block sites from phishing and identity thieves who use the browser for their purposes. The application also manages the Web connections and can automatically fill out forms online.

In the development of the PC, you get options for certain tasks such as defragmenting your hard drive, removing temporary files on Windows and IE and clean the Registry (new in version 2).

The role of backup, which has been improved in Norton 360, lets you use the online storage of Symantec (2GB free and over this for a price). But in our tests with a portable platform Vista, the program failed three consecutive times when trying to restore files online, Symantec said that this problem only affected a few users and it is already solved.

In our extensive tests of performance, for which we use WorldBench 6 with Firefox, Microsoft Office, WinZip and other applications, Norton 360 dropped its rate by 8.3 percent on average in a fairly powerful PC desktop and a 7 percent as average in a less powerful laptop. The results varied greatly from task to task: evidence that widely used disk delayed carrying up to 30 percent; other tasks were not handicapped at all.

Norton 360 is a user-friendly program that protects you from most threats on the Web and helps you maintain your computer, but it is possible to find better protection with security products that offer fewer features.