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The
changes are not ground-breaking, but do appear to be able to keep
Norton on top of its game. The Chrome support is a long-request
feature for the world’s third-most popular browser, and extends Norton
Safe Web toolbar features such as search result evaluation, link
scanning, and Norton’s ID Safe to Chrome users.
The
two engine changes in the Norton 2012 betas aren’t exposed in any new
interface modules, yet they are important. Insight 3.0, and its
component Download Insight 2.0 feature, have been improved. As
mentioned above, Download Insight now looks at downloaded files for
security and stability. It won’t stop you from downloading a file
that’s known to cause instability, but it will warn you and provide an
option to stop the download.
This is a
fairly well-designed feature, and can tell the difference between
operating systems. This means that if a file is known to be stable on
Windows 7 but unstable on Windows XP, only Windows XP users will see
the warning.
Norton Internet Security 2012
beta offers more nuanced download ratings, and will warn you when a
download is known to cause system instability. (Credit: Screenshot by
Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)
Meanwhile, improvements in SONAR 4.0 include
upgraded behavioral protection, which monitors running programs for
suspicious behavior and will stop them if it detects any. One of the
bigger changes in SONAR is that it now scores DLL file separately,
allowing for more nuanced detection.
There
have been some interface tweaks in the betas, adding bright green to a
formerly yellow-and-black interface. While not a major redesign, the
green does serve to better highlight key features, such as your
security status. Norton’s online storage vault also catches up to the
competition this year, integrating a cloud sync feature, and the Norton
Power Eraser for last-ditch fixes has been integrated with the Norton
bootable recovery tool, so you won’t have to download them separately
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