Thread: Test and result

For testing the software. we installed it on a Windows XP machine. For anti virus testing. we scanned our virus database and it was able to detect almost all viruses and clean/quarantine them. In fact. during scanning our virus database. Norton deleted/quarantined maximum number of infections as compared to 2008 versionf of TrendMicro and McAfee. To check the firewall capabilities we used an isolated network and ran attacks through Nessus.



The Norton firewall successfully blocked all attacks and we could check this by referring to the logs maintained for scans and attacks. We tested the e-mail protection capability by trying to download virus infected mails. The software raised an alert and did not allow us to download infected mails. For spammail testing we configured a mail account on Outlook Express and downloaded a collection of spam mails. It was able to detect 39% of spam mails with default settings. However. this percentage increases over time. as the software learns over a period of time.