Norton 360 Premier is a complete pack of security tools that offers overall protection. With Norton Antivirus you can protect your single pc, while with Internet Security you can avoid various online threats, but if you are looking for a complete set of protection with parental control, mobile security, remote management, etc; then Norton 360 Premier is an idle choice. The new edition has great improvements in performance and memory usage. Being light on the system resources it works very well cleaning your system and giving all round protection. The package comes with additional tools and utilities which we will discuss later on. Being a power security program, it is well suited for a small network. Buying a single suite offers you around 3 to 5 pc security and even higher. Norton 360 is not just an antivirus or internet security pack, but a bit more than that. The prime feature of this tool includes a 24x7 threat monitoring, advance identity theft protection; automatic pc backup/tune-up and also protect/locate your android devices.
We got chance to test the 5 device pack which includes PC, Tablets and Smartphones. And of course some more benefits for Windows 8. The package offers Norton Studio App which is specifically designed for Windows 8. Through this tool you can manage your protection from single place. The app allows you to get stats on your system security at a single place. The app is available on Windows Store. All you need to do is register yourself on the Norton Security Products. A common account will help you to get information about your system protection online instantly. With the help of Remote Management feature you can control the device security settings and change them whenever you want. We will check that in more detail later on. Today we are almost not safe in any part of web.
The risk lies most when you are doing monetary transaction on web. Virus is more smartly designed to capture data. It is necessary that you must use top notch security tools which is ideal to deal with any kind of threat and along with that it should be easy to operate. Norton 360 Premier not only adds a pc level security but comes with system recovery tools and social media protection also. An ideal option to block numerous attacks.
Setup & Interface:
Norton 360 Premier has a clean interface. The home screen is divided into 4 primary categories which show that this tool is not just limited to virus cleaning. The 4 categories are Security, Identity, Backup and Tune-up. The last two sections provide additional benefits. Through backup you can keep your important files securely on cloud storage. Right now it offers a 25GB of online space which simply looks more than enough. The second one Tune-up helps to improve your system performance. It is a set of 7 tools to troubleshoot your pc and enhance its output. Tools like Disk Optimization, History cleaner, Startup Manager, etc; are quiet beneficial as well. Compared to older edition the new one is more optimized. It is low on memory but not really recommended for old system. Due to many tools in it sometime the security suite freezes in between. Let’s checkout each section and see what it offer.
Security:
The security settings deal with all scanning part. It also gives you details about scanned result. You can update the antivirus from the same section and change firewall options also. Now there are two important things here to check. First is the Firewall and second is Norton Insight. Norton 360 offers advance firewall. It is nicely detailed and divided based on different blocking activities. Inside the same place you can manage firewall separately for programs, network/internet traffic, browser/intrusion protection and many more. Norton Insight gives you a short glimpse on file reputation. It tells you about the file/program reputation whether they can be risky to use or not. Norton Insight has number of different filters through which you can get the overall protection status of your pc.
This is a really awesome feature here which you can hardly find in any other security suite. A kind of great security audit tools for advance users. Norton Insight is a bit resource hungry. The tool tries to scan each and every file working in your system and gives out the risk it involves. This helps to predict issues before any serious problem occur in your pc.
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