It has been proven last year that Norton AntiVirus 2009 is easy to use and does not use too many resources. Symantec says the new Norton AV 2010 is not only light and fast protection but has earned the lightest and fastest protection among the rest. They also offer new features that will reduce the task in scanning and removing of malware.
Norton AV 2010 is for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 systems only. The installer is bigger than the previous version of NAV – 73.2MB. I am impressed with the installation speed of NAV 2010. In less than 1 minute, NAV 2010 is ready to use. A system restart is not required at all to start using the program.
The installer of NAV 2010 is clean from any third-party add-on or services. There is no toolbar or search assistant in NAV 2010. An option to Norton Community Watch is displayed before you will proceed installing the program.
Norton AntiVirus is offering real-time protection against malware and the option to run a quick, full and custom scan. There is also a neat “Idle scan” feature. NAV 2010 also features vulnerability and bot protections. It can also detect rootkits and will provide pushed and pulse updates.
NAV 2010 is not the same as previous version because there are new features: Norton File Insight, Download Insight, System Insight, Threat Insight, Insight Network and SONAR 2 (behavioral protection).
Norton Download Insight will monitor your downloads and uses Insight Network, Norton’s cloud-based reputation system, to protect you. An example notification window of Norton Download Insight is below:
File Insight will provide details of the file so you don’t have to spend a long time to check whether the file is unknown or found in many systems as “safe”:
System Insight is a graphical user interface that will show the recent activity in your PC while Norton Insight Network is taking advantage of Norton Community Watch that will help determine the sources of threats and to find new threats: