Norton Antivirus 2009

rating: 5.00

Norton AntiVirus 2009 is the fastest, lightest antivirus solution you can buy. Rapid pulse updates and the innovative new Norton Insight architecture dramatically improve performance while helping to ensure that you're protected from the latest threats. Norton AntiVirus stays out of your way while you work or play.

Norton Antivirus 2009 overview

Norton AntiVirus 2009 stops viruses, spyware, worms, bots, and other malicious threats fast.
With fast and continuous defense against all types of malicious threats, Norton AntiVirus 2009 keeps your system protected without slowing you down. Rapid pulse updates and an innovative new architecture dramatically improve performance and help to ensure that you protected.

Norton AntiVirus stays out of your way while you work or play. It automatically suspends all non-critical tasks and alerts when you enjoying games and movies. Real-time SONAR Symantec Online Network for Advanced Response) technology detects emerging threats without the need for traditional updates or signature-based definitions. And while Web-based attacks may be the single fastest growing type of online threat, Symantec patent pending Browser Protection lets you surf the Internet with protection against browser exploits that can be picked up on infected Web sites.

Working quickly and quietly in the background, Norton AntiVirus requires little memory or system resources. New Norton Insight utilizes extensive online intelligence to target only processes at risk, resulting in faster, fewer, shorter scans. And the new Norton Protection System employs a multilayered set of security technologies that work in concert to detect, identify, and block attacks.

Need help Support is always available without charge from Symantec in the way that most convenient for you. You can access our extensive online knowledge base common problems. Live chat includes remote access technology so our support technicians can solve the problem for you.

With your subscription, Norton AntiVirus 2009 includes automatic updates as well as access to new product features and updated versions as available during your service period.

Norton Antivirus 2009 features

New--Delivers up-to-the-minute protection with rapid pulse updates every 5 to 15 minutes.
Improved--Provides multilayered security through the Norton Protection System.
New--Prevents bots from taking control of your PC.
Detects and automatically removes malicious threats.
Improved--Defends against Web-based attacks.
Automatically detects and removes spyware, viruses, Trojans, bots and Internet worms.
New--Recovery tool boots and repairs badly infected PCs.
New--Delivers our most complete, deep cleaning scan possible.
Norton Ongoing Protection provides continuous protection updates and new product features as they become available throughout your product subscription period, helping to keep your computer protected against the latest Internet threats and risks.
Norton Automatic Renewal Service helps to ensure that you're protected by automatically renewing your product subscription before it expires.

Norton Antivirus 2009 specification

Operating System: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic/Home Premium/Business/Ultimate (must meet minimum Windows Vista operating system requirements); Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 Home/XP Pro/XP Media Center Edition
Processor: 300 MHz or faster
Memory: 256 MB of RAM (512 MB RAM required for the Recovery Tool)
Storage: 150 MB of available hard disk space
Email scanning: Supported for POP3- and SMTP-compatible email clients
Browser support for Browser Protection feature: Microsoft Internet Explorer 32-bit 6.0 or higher; Mozilla Firefox 2.0 or higher
Supported instant messaging clients: AOL, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Trillian

Norton Antivirus 2009 user reviews

"I very rarely praise software, but Norton really listened to consumers and the Norton Antivirus 2009 of the Norton security suite is absolutely amazing.

Installation:
Intuitive and fast. The installation took less than 90 seconds from start to finish, including entering in the CD key. I had Norton Internet Security 2009 already installed (the subscription expired, and I didn't need the firewall aspect of the suite, so I opted for the cheaper Antivirus-only package), and the installer detected the existing software and had me uninstall it. During uninstallation, my settings were saved, and at the end of the new installation they were automatically imported and immediately active.

Resource Utilization:
Norton users have migrated away from older versions to other antivirus options because of Norton's sluggish performance and excessive resource footprint. The 2009 version has been completely revamped, and now has a small footprint and runs extremely fast. Right now I'm running a full system scan, and Norton has yet to exceed 5% of CPU and remains under 8mb of RAM.

Pulse Updates:
Norton took a cue from rapid-fire updates from other antivirus products and pushed it a step further. Norton constantly checks for definition updates once every few minutes, and because it only downloads definitions that are new, the updates complete rapidly, often under 15 seconds from download-start to update-completion.

Early Load:
Launches Norton before windows logs-in, to provide even more protection from startup attacks.

Idletime Scan:
Automatically does a full system scan when your system is idle. The scan automatically terminates when you become active again.

Selective Scanning:
Will not unnecessarily scan files that are determined to be clean and safe if they haven't been modified since last time it was scanned. This reduces overall scan-times and increases performance. This can be turned off, and you can opt for a full-scan every time.

Experience with infections:
Once, someone decided to plug in a USB drive to copy a file over. The drive was infected with a trojan, but before Windows even fully recognized the drive, Norton detected, blocked, and quarantined the infected file. I was then prompted to delete it. I was pleasantly surprised with the pro-active protection, even before I attempted to open an explorer window to view the drive."

--- Raymond Chow rated: 5

"I abandoned Norton AV after several years of their bloated, slow products. I never thought I'd bother to try another version of their product since I'm very happy with Kaspersky (another 5 Star product IMO). But since Norton was on sale very cheap, their "Fast and Light" campaign had me intrigued, and independent tests gave it glowing reviews, I decided to give it a shot. I'll have to be honest. I am impressed. It was the easiest, quickest, install of an AV program I've ever used. It's light years faster than the last couple of previous versions, and a dramatic improvement. According to independent test results, the Norton Antivirus 2009 is 85% faster in scanning a system than the 2008 version. It also uses about 75% less resources than the competition. I don't know why it took Symantec several years and many lost customers to put out this product. Better late than never I guess. "

--- D. Hentze rated: 5

"I bought the download version of this product. It works on Windows Vista and XP. The download was under 10 minutes. The interface is clean and easy to follow. It automatically cut off Windows Defender which some people may find annoying. It uses very little of system resources and has a graph on the interface you can use to monitor the resources. It scans incoming email. It's different from the Norton I remembered from 5 years ago which was bloated and slow. Norton Antivirus 2009's $39.99 for the download for one PC. So far so good. "

--- veruca salt rated: 5

"After trying various AntiVirus solutions for my desktop and laptop - I stopped using them due to the obtrusiveness and loss of performance. Instead, I resorted to being extra careful with what I download and from where and ensuring the machines were always behind a hardware firewall.

Recently though I had to copy data from untrusted source on to my laptop and I started rethinking my AV strategy. That's when I gave Norton AV 2009 a try and I found it a huge improvement not only over prior Norton versions but also over other solutions I had tried.

To begin with, I bought this product from Symantec online store. Norton Antivirus 2009 is a small download from Symantec site and it installs very fast. Enter your subscription number, reboot and you are all set within few minutes.

Next, it starts nearly instantaneously - one click on the task bar icon and it's already there. The definition updates also are very fast and unobtrusive unlike with the previous versions - you will hardly notice.

The user interface is much simplified, with options for running scans, status bars for Antivirus, AntiSpyware , Intrusion prevention and Email scanning. One other useful feature is that the interface shows how busy your system is and how much of it is used by Norton AV itself - I find that when idle it doesn't use any resources and when doing a full foreground scan it consumes up to 30% which is good for a faster scan.

Additionally it allows the scans to be run in the background - in this case the scan will only run when the computer is idle. Which means you can carry on with your work and let the scan do its job when you are not doing anything - obviously it increases the time required to complete the scan but none the less I find it is a useful option.

It also provides a status widget if you are running Vista - but I am not a big fan of widgets.

Oh and if you are running the 64-bit version of Vista, Norton 2009 works just fine.

Overall a very unobtrusive and fast product. "

--- Parry rated: 5

"Honestly I have hated Norton products since Norton 04. The only good thing made from Norton was their removal tool! Every year they consume more and more. More than 1/3 of the computer resources were being used by 07. Show me a virus that does that! In my opinion I would rather have a virus on my machine then install Norton 05-08.

After trying Kapersky 09, Trend Micro 09, Webroot W/Virus 6.0, F-Prot, AVG, AVAST and Norton 09. I am extremely impressed with Norton Antivirus 2009! It's the only one I have stayed with.

Installs in a minute!
I don't believe in installing more than one security (antispyware, antivirus, firewall) program on a PC it will cause problems. I currently have a router with a built in firewall (all routers do have NAT) and the Vista firewall. I didn't need a 3rd party "outgoing" firewall. (If my PC is clean why do I need that?)
If I did want an outgoing firewall I would have bough Norton Internet Security. Keeping it to one security program!

As far as scanning goes it has a built in detector on safe services and will bypass scanning these areas for faster scanning. When your computer goes idle it starts a quick scan in the background. As far as up-to date definitions go it always tells me that my definitions were automatically updated 10-30 minutes ago!

Once installed it did ask me to log into my Norton account, which I was grateful for since I will purchase it next year. (if they remain like 09)
However the registration was easier then Kapersky and Trend Micro. Plus it didn't automatically enroll me in auto yearly purchase like Spysweeper did.
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--- Chris Moor rated: 5

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