In newly launched beta edition of Symantec's Norton Internet Security 2010 is more notable for what is under the hood than what you actually see. Yet, if you plan to try it out, you better not work on your main PC - this is not only a beta version, but temporarily as well. Currently installed the beta version says that it was good for only 14 days.

A shift from signatures to reputation:

Symantec's integrated suite to provide protection against viruses, Trojans, the rootkit, spyware and malicious software of all kinds, like the previous version. As these versions, it includes a firewall, intrusion prevention, email protection and network protection; For example, it integrated the browser and search engine to warn you away from the site visit may be malicious.

Symantec said the latest version of security suite software, a major shift from signature-based detection, to the so-called "reputation-based security technology", it claims to provide a more comprehensive and up-to-date protection.

According to Symantec, said the traditional feature-based solutions simply can not keep up with a large number of new malicious software release every year. The company said that Symantec's researchers see the attack more than two million computers every month, many of which have never been seen before the threat may be based on the characteristics of the slip road leading security software. For this reason, the company claimed that the feature-based solutions, in itself no longer able to fully protect your computer.

Based on the reputation of its new security strategy relies on Symantec products reach the world, in which millions of people who use Norton products and choose the Norton community information, inventory of applications running on their systems. Use of this data, the calculation Symantec "reputation score" of the application, and the reputation of its score, in addition to traditional Malware signatures, since the engine to maintain computer security suite of Norton Internet Security 2010.

Norton Internet Security 2010 is not the first time reputation-based technology has been used in anti-Malware vendors. Desktop Cloudmark Inc., for example, has been used for years in order to prevent spam. However, Cloudmark, Inc. is a far smaller companies more than Symantec, to a smaller user base, rather than a comprehensive security package. In addition, the anti-spam protection is much simpler than the changing of various threats, in the network.

These days it is a large-scale laboratory to determine whether the credibility-based security is better than feature-based security, the final answer will have to wait until the autumn of 2009 to 2010, the National Intelligence Service is expected to be released in final form. In this connection, the laboratory will be weighed with their results.

The installation of the plight of :

The initial beta version to download and install a small software, which, in turn, download the trial itself, which is 88.5MB. Relatively fast installation process. In my case, first of all uninstall Panda Internet Security software, which is active in the test computer, and then re-install it.

I have a few hiccups with my installation. On one occasion, a screen prompts to install that encountered the error can not be restored, but the rest are still there is no problem with the installation. At another point, the screen suddenly appeared and told me that the plan has encountered an error, and collects information about it, but never said what the error was.

When I first attempt to scan my system and software, it will not scan because the virus definitions not up to date. But after a look around, I would like to download the latest definition, and smooth during the scanning process. In addition to the installation failure, may be a very serious shortcomings of this trial version - the software that the subscription is good only for 14 days. It is not clear whether the order will be extended beyond the 14 days free of charge, because it is still in beta.

Therefore warned that, if you download the software, it might not work properly, after two weeks. (I have asked Symantec to clarify this issue, will update the story, I heard).

In the user interface: you've seen it before Norton Internet Security users will feel at home in 2009 a new version of the procedure, because the basic interface and almost all the work is the same as the existing version.

The main screen is the control center allows you to use your security functions and features, you can open and close. This is slightly different from the past, organized version of the software, there are three main parts: computer, network and network (instead of the previous computer, networking and identity). The most fundamental features, there is the same.

With previous versions, it monitors the left side of the main screen shows your current CPU usage, as well as how many actions are being taken to Norton. There is no real reason to show you this information, unless the drive home that the Norton is no longer a bloated security suite software, the past, occupied much less than the RAM.

This is in the affirmative, but it still slow down your system over lightweight anti-virus tools, such as Microsoft recently introduced Microsoft security points or ALWIL Software Avast! , The two are free of charge.

In limited testing, it missed the threat of :

Although I do not have the software through a comprehensive laboratory testing, I have not tested it using EICAR standard antivirus test file, which is by the European Institute for Computer Anti-virus research, in order to enable anti-virus software for testing. The conduct of the test document as the same virus, even though it does not hurt your system.

I tested the National Intelligence Service in 2010 with two versions of the EICAR file: 1. com file (an executable file), and. com files embedded in a compressed file. Norton said. com files can be dangerous. However, it allows. zip file through without any notice.

Please note that these tests only two documents and the newly independent countries in 2010 is still in beta, so this is not a true test of how much protection software, to release it.

Other new things :

In addition to Norton's new security strategy based on reputation, there are also some new features. Symantec one is called "anatomy" to the threat of more information on your system than the previous version.

Anti-Spam component has a new engine of Brightmail, which powers many large enterprises, anti-spam efforts. Symantec claims that this has greatly increased the efficiency of the killing of their spam.

In addition, Norton Internet Security 2010 users to receive free subscriptions OnlineFamily.Norton, the Web-based service that lets parents control their children do online. However, such charges can only provide a good product when it is published until December 2009.

There are other minor changes, as well as, not all good. For example, there are loopholes in the protection of a new link to the main screen, but the links take you to another screen, does not seem to do anything - at least, not in this beta. It is planned, Norton has been found from the loopholes and you, whether or not you have these applications on your computer. Feeling a little bit of marketing plans into the Middle East.

Conclusion:

Therefore, if you download this beta version of Norton Internet Security 2010? In view of its installation bugginess - and the facts, it appears that, in May last year to subscribe for only 14 days - most likely the answer is no. Because it and uninstall any security program is already running, you certainly do not want to put it on your main computer. The software will be the last for some time in the fall, you have to wait until then to do a good job.