Norton 360 Version 5.0 Beta

[Pleonasm]

Norton 360 Version 5.0 Beta is now available. Please see here for a description of the product’s features, and see here to participate in the beta process.

[ExtremeGamerBR]

Cool! Maybe in two months I test, the interface is really cool!

[3GUSER]

To be honest , it by itself is nothing special - just NIS 2011 with new interface + back-up/optimisations functions.

[icr]

@ 3GUSER
Totally agree with you

[ExtremeGamerBR]

What is the difference between Norton 360 and Norton 360 Pro Premier?

[malexous]

The Premier Edition has 25GB online backup as opposed to 2GB.

http://us.norton.com/products/charts...on.jsp?pcid=mp

[ExtremeGamerBR]

Originally Posted by malexous

The Premier Edition has 25GB online backup as opposed to 2GB.

http://us.norton.com/products/charts...on.jsp?pcid=mp

Thanks!

[maddawgz]

bloaty how is detection.where u get beta?

[JRViejo]

maddawgz, Pleonasm provided the link in the post: Norton 360 Version 5.0

[Nevis]

quite similar to NIS 2011 GUI
engine going to be same

so not very exciting

[malexous]

The most exciting part is the round taskbar icon.

[ExtremeGamerBR]

What sets it interests me is the backup, probably soon buy a license it!

[Victek123]

Originally Posted by Nevis

quite similar to NIS 2011 GUI
engine going to be same

so not very exciting

Yes, the pattern seems to be NIS gets the new tech first and then it's ported to N360. Still, if you're a N360 user it's new (and maybe exciting) for you

AFAICT the only reason to use N360 instead of NIS is the online backup functionality, and you really need the larger 25gig capacity to make that useful.

[dschrader]

It used to be that NIS got the new tech first, then it rolled into 360. That is changing - new development cycle will put 360 first as it is the flagship product.

[Pleonasm]

Originally Posted by dschrader

...new development cycle will put 360 first as it is the flagship product.

I recall seeing an article that briefly referenced this change. If I remember the gist correctly, the article seemed to suggest that Symantec is seeking to transition from a thick-client (Norton Internet Security) approach to something like a hosted, thin-client approach to PC security (under the Norton 360 brand). Can you please elaborate on these plans?

[TonyW]

Originally Posted by Pleonasm

If I remember the gist correctly, the article seemed to suggest that Symantec is seeking to transition from a thick-client (Norton Internet Security) approach to something like a hosted, thin-client approach to PC security (under the Norton 360 brand).

That sounds like the product going more cloud-based, which, let's face it, a lot of security programs seem to be heading towards these days.

[ExtremeGamerBR]

The Norton will never implement a sandbox in their products?

Several AVs already have this protection included (Avast! IS, KIS, Comodo).

[malexous]

Voice your interest.

http://community.norton.com/t5/Norto...x/idi-p/215595

[ExtremeGamerBR]

Malexous,

Thank you, good to know that they are considering developing a SB.

But really for novice users is a bit hard to handle SB.

Thanks again, was very helpful.

[slider916]

Is this true that if you lose your internet connection that Norton is basically useless because it depends on your connection?

Thanks.

[firzen771]

Originally Posted by slider916

Is this true that if you lose your internet connection that Norton is basically useless because it depends on your connection?

Thanks.

well the Insight component would be im pretty sure, i dont remember is Sonar was cloud or not but if it is then most of its functionality would also be gone

[3GUSER]

Originally Posted by slider916

Is this true that if you lose your internet connection that Norton is basically useless because it depends on your connection?

Thanks.

If you lose your Internet connection you are less likely to get infected because the majority of today's threats are internet-borne type. Malware cannot download payload , spyware and trojans cannot spy on you , you can't open infected websites , etc. With no internet connection , the cloud functionality and SafeWeb cannot work so protection is less . However , theats are less , too . Classical Auto-Protect (real-time file system protection) with local signatures remains fully working , of course. SONAR , too

[ExtremeGamerBR]

Originally Posted by slider916

Is this true that if you lose your internet connection that Norton is basically useless because it depends on your connection?

Thanks.

But if you lose your internet connection you can only be infected by a malware that is already on your machine (Like some malicious executable) or via USB.

I think Norton can protect you even without the Insight.

EDIT: Did not see that 3GUSER posted, it was like our posts (Although it gets better).

[dschrader]

Norton will work just fine even if you lose your internet connection. A portion of the Insight data and all the sigs are stored locally. You don't need a connection to get strong protection.

Pleonasm, we are not transitioning to a thin, hosted client - not as far as I know (I no longer work on the Norton products). We do have a new hosted solution for small enterprises - essentially NIS on the client and a web management console. But most sales are and will continue to be traditional, full client solutions.

The transition I was referring too was simply changing the development cycle so that N360 gets the newest technology which will then roll into NAV/NIS instead of the other way around.

[3GUSER]

Originally Posted by dschrader

Norton will work just fine even if you lose your internet connection.

No.....

No matter that some part of Insight data is locally , Norton will not be able to coneect to the Cloud to gather information for new files arriving via other (non-Internet) means such as files coming from network shares , removable (pen) drives or CD/DVDs. Of course Auto-Protect will remain functioning and you/we still consider it to be one of the most important parts . But what about future updates (every 8 hours or so , pulse updates ...) ? Of course user will be without them.

However , most wide spread internet borne threats (spyware,trojans...) that rely on the Internet to spy/function and to be spread (to be downloaded from) will not function , too and protection for them will not be as effective by the means of Download Insight , Safe Web , etc as it was when Internet connection was present.

Norton will work just fine even if you lose your internet connection

If you lose Internet connection , the only way to infected yourself with rogue application , spyware , trojan is to be either very stupid , to be do it on purpose.
Todays threats need Internet to function and they have no benefit to kill your Internet.