WHAT IS NORTON ANTIVIRUS 11 FOR MAC?
Norton Antivirus 11 for Mac is
Symantec’s top-selling security product for Macintosh computers, including
protection against the latest online threats such as viruses, Internet worms, software vulnerabilities attacks and more.
It works with the Mac OS® X v10.5.x (and v10.4.10 or higher) operating system and both
Intel® and PowerPC® processors are supported!
DO I NEED NORTON ANTIVIRUS 11 FOR MAC?
If you own a Mac and you frequently connect it to the Internet, then the simple answer is yes. Many people believe Macintosh computers are inherently better protected against online threats than PCs; while this is partly true, Macs are not perfect in this regard:
- Yes, Mac operating systems are more robust in terms of security than Windows in general. This is in part due to the fact that Apple manufactures both the hardware and the operating system for their computers, allowing for tighter integration of the different components.
- However, a lot more computers connected to the Internet run on Windows compared to Mac OS X or Leopard. Evidently, programmers writing the code of malicious software to steal people’s identities might as well target as many computers in one pass as possible. This is why Windows-based computers are more likely to be targeted by viruses and other malware compared to Macs.
WHAT CAN NORTON ANTIVIRUS 11 FOR MAC DO FOR ME?
As with
Norton Antivirus 2010 (for Windows)
viruses on your Mac are automatically detected and removed. If you receive a lot of emails on a daily basis, you’ll be happy to know that Norton Antivirus 11 for Mac
scans attachments and removes any detected malware. The same is true for
files you download from the web: they are cleaned up before they even reach your hard drive.
The Auto-Protect function runs constantly in the background to ensure your Mac is always protected from online threats. When a virus is found in a file, the application will instantly attempt to ‘repair’ that file. It then alerts you it has successfully done so. Otherwise the file is put into quarantine, which is really just a special folder on your hard drive where the virus cannot damage your data. Once there, Norton Antivirus 11 for Mac can attempt to repair the file once more or remove it; you might also be able to delete the file. If it’s actually not a virus, you’ll be able to restore the file easily.
You can schedule scans to happen whenever you’d like. If it happens a scan needs to start while you are in the middle of a CPU-hungry task, just use the Snooze feature to delay the scan from 15 minutes to an entire day – it’s that simple. Compressed files can be scanned and since this is a resource-intensive process (as files are uncompressed, scanned and recompressed on the fly), a setting can be specified so that files are immediately scanned only after they are uncompressed by you.
WHAT IS NEW WITH NORTON ANTIVIRUS 11 FOR MAC?
For one,
Norton Antivirus 11 for Mac is much
lighter on system resources than the previous version; it works discretly in the background so
other running programs and your system in general are not slowed down. Also, it runs on the new
Mac OS X v10.5 operating system and is supported by both
Intel® and PowerPC® processor-based Mac computers.
The user interface has been greatly simplified in this release and a new Vulnerability Protection feature has been added that scans files (including images) while they are being downloaded to your computer in order to ensure they do not contain any sort of malware.
Finally, an
all-new dashboard widget indicates how secure your computer really is at all times.
Don’t assume you are safe from online threats because you own a Mac. It’s really easy to get protected and surf the web without worry:
order Norton Antivirus 11 for Mac today!