Norton Security

Once in a while a piece of free software is released by a big software company with a respectable track record, which takes the online world by storm. It is definitely possible that Norton Security Scan could be one of them.

Developed by Symantec, and bundled the much respected developers of the award winning “Norton Antivirus”, and “Norton Internet Security Suite”, Norton Security Scan is a cut down version of the popular antivirus software, which provide all the necessary features of an effective antivirus software without all the bells and whistles.

Norton Security Scan offers users the ability to scan their computers “on demand”. This means that you can up Norton whenever you need to scan your computer for viruses, and don’t touch it when you don’t need it.

This is important, as many of the latest antivirus products out there, though claiming to be system resource friendly, actually waste a lot of computing power constantly scanning your PC, even when you least need it (such as during idle times). This often slows down PCs to a point where people just turn off their antiviruses – rendering the antivirus software pointless.

Norton Security Scan avoids this problem by allowing you to scan your computer by choice whenever you need it, and does a very fine job of it too.

On our tests, Norton was able to pick up a number of internet nasties existing on my PC, that did not get picked up by other antivirus software products.

Upon the detection, I was given the option of cleaning the files. This entire process was completely taken care of by Norton, with minimal fuss in this user-friendly application.

Norton also offers the ability to perform scheduled scans, to ensure that your computer is always protected, and as Norton users so little system resources, scans often go unnoticed on my PC (just the way I like it).

All this, coupled with it’s regular virus definition updates, and intuitive user-interface, Norton Security Scan is one antivirus that won’t be beaten anytime soon.