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Norton Internet Security 2006 (Academic, PC)

Last updated
May 20, 2006
Test Center Reviewed by
Narasu Rebbapragada
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Street price when reviewed - Average: $70
Cost of renewal when reviewed - $50
Performance - Very Good WildList viruses - 100%
AV-Test threats: back doors - 95%
AV-Test threats: bots/zombies - 100%
AV-Test threats: Trojan horses - 98%
Heuristic detection with three-month-old signatures - 65%
Detection of malware within file archives - 78%
Detection of malware within runtime-compressed program files - 49%
Adware detection - 82%
Successful cleanup of malware files, Registry entries, and Hosts-file changes - 54%
Rate of false positives - 0.00%
Detection of malware embedded in Microsoft Office OLE objects - 86%
Detection of malware in password-protected Microsoft Office OLE objects - 90%
Firewall tests: protection from inside attacks - 100%
Firewall tests: protection from outside attacks - 100%
Scan speed (minutes) - 10.47
Percentage slowdown of WorldBench 5 application tests - ACD Systems ACDSee PowerPack 5.0.0.0025 - 9%
Adobe Premiere 6.5 - 4%
Ahead Software Nero Express 6.0.0.3 - 10%
Microsoft Office 2002 SP-2 - 27%
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0.0.2980 - 13%
Mozilla 1.4.0.2003062408 - 18%
Musicmatch Jukebox 7.10.1057 - 2%
Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5.545.0 - 4%
WinZip Computing WinZip 8.1 SR-1 (5266) - 8%
Ease-of-use score - Good
Support policies - Daily support hours - 24
Free phone support - No
Cost of phone support - $30 per incident
Saturday support hours - 24
Sunday support hours - 24
Toll-free support - Yes
E-mail support - Yes
Live chat - Yes
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