Symantec: Norton 99% Perfect Threat Detection

toniayis — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:19:08 +0000

Symantec Norton products announced they achieve the best reviews of the three independent testing agencies.
The third independent testing agency is Dennis Norton Lab Technology, AV-Comparatives.org and AV-Test.org.

Symantec claims that the report was released three independent agencies confirmed that Symantec’s proven technologies to increase effectiveness in providing protection against computer security threats today. Another Symantec technologies also claimed to detect and counteract the perfect threat of Quorum and sophisticated heuristics.

Based on Symantec’s official statement on Friday (6/11/2009), Dennis Technology Lab says Norton Internet Security 2010 scored a perfect detection and recorded as the only product with excellent detection in the face of threats.
Norton was fully assessed the ability to protect the system from attack or infection. This conclusion was derived after Denis Technology Lab testing the effectiveness of 10 leading security products in a comparison test of anti-malware.

Testing Norton Internet Security 2010 performed by AV-Test.org noted that this product can detect approximately 459,872 samples and generated a score of 99.75 percent detection. In the test Symantec’s products are tested on a PC that has infected 25 different virus samples.

“The benchmark test includes important but very different in security testing. But it all came to similar conclusions that conclude Norton is best in class offerings,” said Regional Consumer Product Marketing Manager at Symantec Asia Pacific David Hall.

“This shows the ability of Symantec’s products in providing protection against threats by keeping millions of false positive rate and the lowest the highest performance in all the tested products,” he added.

While the AV-Comparatives.org mention Norton AntiVirus 2010 get rating ‘Advanced +’ highest in terms of protection. This award is given to products who have a high detection rate with low false positive.

Breakthrough technologies are currently available in Norton 360 version 4.0 beta released, Norton Internet Security 2010 and Norton AntiVirus 2010.

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toniayis — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:27:46 +0000

Symantec Corp. revealed that the data prove the effectiveness of a new model of strong protection codenamed “Quorum,” is now present also as part of Norton 360 version 4.0 beta.
Security software package all-in-one fast next version of Symantec and light displays various improvements on the PC TuneUp, backups, and other aspects of the product.

Norton 360 beta is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7, as well as the products recently launched, Norton Internet Security 2010 and Norton AntiVirus 2010.
Introduced last month with Norton products 2010, code name “Quorom” using attributes unique files such as age, source download, digital signature, and the level of distribution, to measure reputation.
Quorum also update the reputation of a file when the file is changed over time. Since its release, the model’s current protection tracked 70 million unique files, with the benefit of input from more than 35 million members of Norton Community Watch is anonymous. In addition, the current technology to identify one million new files each week.
In addition to the protection and performance, Norton 360 beta also includes improvements to the features consumers most appreciated as a PC TuneUp and backups. This latest version relies on improvements that are designed to save users time, improve PC performance, and brings the convenience of not burdening the mind.
Consumers can save time boot-up by using the features Smart Start-up Manager to reduce the start-up time applications. For users backup, Norton 360 beta offers the ability to backup files online, and to restore or access it from anywhere via the Web.
“In the fight against cyber crime, we realize that consumers need more than just basic protection,” said Vice President Consumer Business Symantec APAC David Freer, through its official statement on Thursday (29/10/2009).
“The effectiveness of our technology has been tested in the war against the threat of the virtual world and proven in the field, and we now enter a new form of security in the Norton 360 beta,

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