Security Suite - Norton Internet Security 2012

With the hackers trying everything to get into your accounts, security providers are also gearing up for the challenges infront of them. To keep with this pace Symantec has come up with Norton Internet Security 2012 (NIS 2012). We installed Norton Internet Security 2012 on an i5-processor based machine with 4 GB RAM and 500 GB hard disk space. Installation was quite easy and surprisingly fast. It took just 54 seconds to install this software on the machine. But before we proceeded we updated the NIS and the update was of 98 MB. To make it more simple Norton has added details with each option so that a user can understand its functionality. To test features we loaded around 500 viruses in the system. After we scanned the system it detected almost all viruses that we have loaded. It was pretty good in detecting viruses. After that we ran a quick scan, which took 6 minutes to scan a 100 GB data. NIS detected 3 tracking cookies and resolved it.

Next comes the parental control which actually blocks certain websites. You have to install it separately. We tried to visit certain websites but we got the prompt that URL is blocked and that you have to send a request to the parent or the admin of the system to let you open this URL. That request is received in the form of an email. Next we checked the anti-spamware feature with Outlook 2010. It integrated itself with the Outlook and there is a separate tab for Norton. We tried to block few email addresses and tried to send the emails from these addresses. We did not receive any email and also each time we downloaded an application, Norton prompted us that it is a safe file.

The Bottomline: Norton Internet Security is a fairly good choice as it promptly works to protect your system from security threats.