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Norton Antivirus is an easily recognizable name in antivirus, and has been for years. Similar to McAfee, Norton often comes pre-installed on new PCs and laptops, so many people's first exposure to Norton was after booting up a new computer for the first time. Years ago, Norton was notoriously intrusive and resource intense, leading many people to just uninstall it once the trial period ended. Antivirus software has come a long way in the last 10 years though, and Norton is a great example of its progress.

No longer does antivirus bog down your computer's resources, or constantly pester you with pop-ups. To see where it stands in 2017 I tested its basic 'Norton Security' package, which covers one device (PC, Mac, or mobile) for one year or, though at press time it was. It's a mid-range offering that protects against viruses, malware, and identity theft.

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Design and Features Norton's tucks its many useful feature into a simple, attractive design. Navigation happens in a row at the bottom of the app, and when everything is protected and running as it should, all the icons are green. Checking on a setting is as easy as glancing at its icon, and adjusting it begins with a click. Norton includes a lot of ways to keep your PC protected. Naturally, there's the antivirus and malware scans, which can be scheduled and tweaked to your liking.

It also keeps a really detailed history of your scans and updates, putting them into a searchable format in the app itself. It's likely you'll never need to seek out your past antivirus habits, but it could be helpful tracking down problems in a more advanced situation. There's also a rich feature set of identity protection built into Norton. Like McAfee, Norton has a password manager to both simplify and protect your increasingly large password collection.

It can be downloaded for free on Norton's website, so you don't even need to have Norton antivirus to take advantage of it. Given the nature of the web, where it seems like every site now requires a log-in, a password manager is a good way to keep yourself from getting complacent and using repeated or easily guessable passwords. More Comprehensive Antivirus Reviews • • • • • • On top of that, there's an icon that takes you to the Norton site to let you generate passwords if you don't want to fuss with it.

The randomly generated results are all but impossible to guess, and are extremely secure against brute-force attempts at logging into your accounts. It only takes a second to open up a browser tab, but it would have been nice if the password generator were built-in to the software itself. There's also a browser extension that's available for all the popular browsers except Opera that adds a little bar below the address bar that tells you if the site is safe or not, and offers to let you share it via Facebook which is odd? There's also a 'Norton OK' icon that shows up next to safe links. Both the bar and the icons are an eye-sore, and the bar takes a second or two to load.

Test Results For real world test results we're republishing, which involves examining industry rankings as well as real-world testing. Norton is a solid performer, so much so that in some tests, it's the standard against which others are measured. For example, the AV-Test Institute gives Norton a 17.5 out of a possible 18 in its testing, with perfect scores in both protection and false positives, but it lost a half-point in the performance ranking. That's slightly behind Kaspersky, which scored a perfect 18, but still impressive. It also earned a classification of AAA from, which is the highest of five levels of certification it hands out. In malware protection, where a folder of malware is opened then an attempt is made to run the programs, Norton blocked 97 percent of the files, and was one of just four programs able to pass PCMag's banking malware test as well.

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