Norton on Wednesday unveiled its 2011 edition of its Norton Internet Security suite and Norton Antivirus software. Norton also disclosed a new application Norton Power Eraser that is intentional to get rid of the growingly common fake antivirus malware. novel characteristics for Norton's 2011 product series include new reputation-based detection technology, where the application will assure a downloaded file to see if it can be trusted, established on whether it's a recognized download from a known company, etc, strengthen behavioral malware detection detecting malware based on how it acts on your PC, and new system operation monitoring tools.

Norton Power Eraser is a new freebee tool contrived to find supposed fake antivirus malware, malware that appears like garden variety antivirus software and tried to force you into paying off for full edition of the software that do nothing at all. likewise new is Norton's Bootable Recovery Tool, a tool of last resort for while your PC is so broke by malware that it won't start up, or your antivirus application won't yet work properly. The Bootable Recovery Tool is a free download, but you demand to enter a Norton product key in order to use it.