With 76 percent of consumers in India
falling victim to cybercrime, the need to choose the strongest, most
comprehensive protection available is more important than ever.
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from Symantec launched Norton AntiVirus and Norton Internet
Security 2011, the only suite to achieve a 100 percent protection
score in a new third-party test from Dennis Labs2, in Chennai.
Delivering on its commitment to protect
Indian consumers and ensuring seamless accessibility to its
world-class security solutions, Norton will be organizing channel
meets in 25 cities across India. Norton's new product features,
performance enhancements and free tools mean that Norton does even
more than the competition to help prevent users from being victimized
by cyber thieves.
Protection
According to new third-party test data
from Dennis Labs, Norton placed first in real world threat detection
tests and was the only vendor to achieve a remarkable 100 percent
protection score, marking its second year in a row to secure this
distinction. Norton has also received top scores in both detection
and remediation in evaluations performed by the independent security
testing organization AV-Comparatives3.
Performance
Norton Internet Security 2011, also
remains the proven fastest and lightest security product in the
world. According to new third-party testing data from PassMark
Software4, Norton Internet Security 2011 beat out a field of
well-known security offerings, coming in first in overall performance
among security suites. Additionally, Norton Internet Security
2011outperformed the competition on everyday PC activities like
browsing the Internet and copying files, such as photos or documents,
from one location to another. Compared to Norton 2010, the new Norton
had 25 percent less impact on browsing the Internet and reduced
impact on copying files by more than 60 percent.
Norton
Offers Free Tools
Because any infected machine poses a
risk to the broader online community, Norton is offering powerful
free tools for consumers, regardless of the security solution they
use to provide all computer users with a deeper level of protection.
While these tools are available to everyone, Norton customers benefit
from the fact that they are already integrated into the 2011 product
experience.
One of these free tools is Norton Power
Eraser, which is specially designed to aggressively target and
eliminate today's latest threats, including fake anti-virus or
scareware programs. Additional free tools Norton offers include
Norton Safe Web Lite, a downloadable toolbar that identifies risky
sites before users click on them in search results, Norton Safe Web
for Facebook, which scans current Facebook news feeds to see if they
contain links that are unsafe and Norton Online Family, which helps
keep kids stay safe online while encouraging open communication with
their parents about their online activities.