Enhanced Performance (new)
Provides industry-leading protection without sacrificing performance:
- Fast scan and browse speeds
- Less memory use than the average used by competing products
- Fast startup time
PC Security
PC Security provides industry-leading virus, spyware, and firewall protection
Norton 360 Version 2.0
Identity Safe (new)
Protects your personal information and your identity when you buy, bank, and browse online
- Conveniently and securely manages user names and passwords for you
- Automatically completes forms on trusted Web sites with stored data
Phishing Protection
Guards online attempts to steal your personal information.
- Blocks fraudulent Web sites and verifies trusted ones
Backup and restore
- Protects photos, music, and documents with automated backup
- Provides a very wide range of local backup destinations including internal drives, CD/DVD drives, USB drives, external hard drives, mapped network drives
- Supports new backup destinations including Blu-ray Disc, HD-DVD, and iPod (new)
- Automatically detects and backs up your critical files
- Clearly identifies which files are backed up and which are pending backup (new)
- Provides online backup for secured offsite storage of valuable data
- Includes 2 GB of secured online storage (with option to purchase additional storage)
Network monitoring (new)
- Lets you view and monitor the security status of your wireless and wired network and each device connected to it
- Displays the security status of all the Norton products on your network
- Alerts you when you connect to an unsecured wireless network
- Helps you secure your wireless router
Easy protection of your PC and online activities
Norton 360 threat handling, scans, and tuneups are conducted quietly in the background:
- Browser Protection - Protects against Web-based drive-by downloads that use vulnerabilities in your browser to insert malware on your PC (new)
- Automatically optimises and maintains your PC for peak performance
- Automatically cleans up unnecessary Internet clutter and temporary files
- Helps optimise Windows performance by removing unneeded registry files (new)
- Makes troubleshooting and problem solving easy with diagnostic report (new)
- Defragments hard drives to optimise PC performance
- One-click access to expert support right from your Norton product:
- Fast access to expert support through email, live chat, or phone
- Auto-fix—Quickly detects and fixes known problems
- Quick problem resolution—Helps you resolve common problems fast with unlimited access to questions and answers
- Protection updates—Includes protection updates and new product features as available throughout the renewable service period
Please see the documents and dowmloads section for a document that details the feature differences between Norton 360 ver 2.0 and Norton Internet Security 2008
Software Requirements
- Operating systems: Windows XP Home/Professional/Media Center Service Pack 2 or later
edition, Windows Vista Home Basic/Home Premium/Ultimate/Business/Starter Edition.
- Phishing Protection feature requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later or Firefox 2.0
or later.
- Email scanning supported for POP3-compatible email clients.
- Online backup feature requires high-speed Internet connection.
Hardware requirements
- 300 MHz or faster processor.
- 256 MB of RAM.
- 300 MB of available hard disk space.
Required for all installations
- Standard Web browser.
- DVD or CD-ROM drive may be required.
- Internet connection.
- Additional Windows Vista requirements
- Must meet minimum Windows Vista operating system requirements.
- Phishing Protection feature available only on 32-bit Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Other requirements
- Norton toolbar feature requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later.
- Email scanning supported for POP3-compatible email clients.
Supported instant messaging clients
- AOL Instant Messenger 4.7 or later.
- Yahoo! Instant Messenger 5.x or 6.x.
- MSN Messenger 6.0 or later.