Norton Antivirus 2010 Present Among Other Competitors

Symantec today announced the presence of computer security solutions on the market their new Indonesia. Continuing the previous series, the security application bundle this time given the name Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2010 and Internet Security 2010.

“According to the Federal Trade Commission, the evil has conquered cyberspace selling drugs as the biggest moneymaker crime. Now crimes in cyberspace destroy lives worse than destroying a computer, “said Effendy Ibrahim, Norton Business Lead, South Asia Region, Symantec, the Norton 2010 launch in Jakarta, October 8, 2009.

In Norton Internet Security and Antivirus 2010, Symantec implement new security method called Quorum. This method has the ability to detect malware that is better than the traditional detection and behavior-based signatures.

“Quorum is different from signature-based detection methods and behavioral heuristics like those used in security applications generally,” said David Hall, Regional Consumer Product Marketing Manager at Symantec Asia Pacific.

“Using Quorum, the best weapon of cyberspace criminals creates unique malware quickly, used to deal with these criminal attacks,” said Hall.

Hall says, the strategy cyberspace criminals create malware that has a unique code that continues complicate different security software that relies on signatures. “If there is a new malware that has a unique code that has not been recognized by the security program, chances are difficult to detect malware, but not so with Quorum,” he said.

“With Quorum, evil malware really new even be known, precisely because she’s really new,” said Hall. “While the signature-based security program or a behavioral heuristic may not be doing anything until these malicious programs into action,” he said.

Users who use the Norton security applications are also encouraged to join Norton Community. As more and more users around the world who join, the Quorum will be able to more quickly and accurately detect the files or programs circulating on the Internet.

“With a reputation-based security on Norton 2010, we raised the security level standards in the industry,” said Effendy. “The problem, now a security threat and the increasing number of sophisticated, so they no longer can be treated with signature-based security and behavioral heuristics,” he said.

Continuing the previous series, Norton 2010 which can be used on Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 are also relatively mild. Although new technology was implemented, but did not make this application more exhaust computer resources.

According to PassMark Software, an independent software testing institute, Norton Internet Security 2010 only takes about 1 minute to install. In addition, this application also only consumes about 10MB of RAM alone. Transfer speed is also relatively fast.

Norton Internet Security 2010 is sold for USD $ 448 thousand for the 3 PC license and 268 thousand to 1 PC. Norton Antivirus 2010 sold USD 388 thousand to 3 PCs and 218 thousand to 1 PC. Price includes subscription and technical support for one year.

Users who still have the Norton 2006 series up to a free upgrade to Norton 2010 on condition that their security software licenses are still valid. As for the future of their new Norton 2010 will continue the period of validity of the software they use.

Yesterday, Microsoft recently inaugurated their security applications for computer users, especially home users. Microsoft Security Essential titled, this application is available for free for Windows users.

Faced with the presence of ‘competitors’ new on the market, Symantec claimed not to worry. One of the specialist manufacturers of major security applications in the world is actually expressed joy with the steps taken by Microsoft.

“The way they do educate the users of the importance of using security software Symantec also beneficial,” he said.

“The user already knows about the dangers of crime in cyberspace will continue computer security is more than just antivirus or anti-malware,” said Hall. “For that, we provide complete applications, such as the Norton 2010 that we represent this time that could give more protection to the user,” he said.

Hall mentions, security or antivirus programs are available free on the market for a long time. However, signature-based protection methods like that are no longer sufficient to overcome a lot of attacks happen today.

Meanwhile, AVG Technologies released a new Internet security product both AVG 9.0 free and paid versions are available in the market began in October 2009. With a significant increase in the speed and level of security, AVG 9.0 is also easy to use and improve the experience for end users.

Optimize scan into the priorities for AVG 9.0. This application marks the file as a status of safe or potentially unsafe at the time of the scan, and through a secure file for scanning process in the future unless the file structure changed. As a result, users can dramatically reduce the scan time up to 50 percent depending on the system configuration. Similarly, there is an increase of 10 to 15 percent for boot time and memory usage.

Series AVG 9.0 is not complete and free to consumers now have available. Price for one year, one license for the AVG anti-virus 9.0 starting from Rp 276,100 and for the use of two years, one license for the AVG anti-virus 9.0 starting from Rp 410,300. AVG free with only basic features will be available mid-October of this