Norton Internet Security 2008 5 User

by Symantec

Product Features

• Norton Identity Safe keeps your personal information and identity safe when you buy, bank and browse online
• Start, scan, and run faster. Improved performance delivers an enhanced online experience
• Get help fast with free online technical support via live chat and email all from within the product
• Optimized product design improves scan times and decreases impact on system startup and resource usage
• SONAR technology delivers behavior-based protection that can detect emerging spyware and viruses even before traditional signature-based definitions are available

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000T9LUC4
• Item model number: 12608439
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 6, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,061 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #13 in Software > Networking > Firewalls
  • #70 in Software > Networking > Security

Product Description

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Stay protected from the latest online threats. Norton Internet Security 2008 runs quietly in the background to detect and block today's complex threats and to protect your identity when you buy, bank, or browse online. The friendly and efficient product design helps minimize confusing security alerts and system slowdowns that can get in the way of your online experience. And if you need help, an integrated online chat tool connects you to our support professionals, so you have easy access to the answers you need. In addition to protection updates, Norton Internet Security provides new product features as available throughout your service subscription.

Norton Internet Security 2008 runs quietly in the background to detect and block today's complex threats and to protect your identity when you buy, bank, or browse online.

Stay protected from the latest online threats.
Norton Internet Security 2008 runs quietly in the background to detect and block today's complex threats and to protect your identity when you buy, bank, or browse online.

Key Benefits

• Blocks online identity theft--An extra layer of security protects when you buy, bank, or browse.
• Detects and eliminates spyware--Provides advanced protection against today's latest threats.
• Removes viruses and Internet worms--Fast and quiet scans provide comprehensive, automatic protection.
• Protects against hackers--Safeguards your computer with a smart firewall that automatically configures protection settings.

Includes Full Versions of the Following Products:

• Norton AntiVirus
• Norton Personal Firewall
• Norton Antispyware
• Norton Identity Safe--New!
• Norton Antiphishing

New Features and Enhancements--What's New

• Norton Identity Safe keeps your personal information and your identity safe when you buy, bank and browse online.
• Enhanced performance lets you start, scan, and run faster, so you can enjoy your online experience.
• Get help fast with free online technical support via live chat and email all from within the product.
• Optimized product design improves scan times and decreases impact on system startup and resource usage.
• SONAR (Symantec Online Network for Advanced Response) technology delivers behavior-based protection that can detect emerging spyware and viruses even before traditional signature-based definitions are available.
• Stores and encrypts your passwords and other confidential data, automatically filling it at your request to save time and protect it from being stolen by eavesdropping keystroke loggers.
• Network security monitoring checks the status of your wireless network security, maps connected devices, and provides expert advice on managing your network security settings.

Start, scan, and run faster. Improved performance delivers an enhanced online experience.

Norton AntiVirus:
Antivirus and antispyware protection, rootkit detection and intrusion protection

• Protects your computer by automatically detecting and removing spyware, viruses, Trojan horses, and Internet worms.
• Exchange files via email and instant messaging without worrying about receiving threats on your computer or spreading them to others.
• Stays out of your way. Runs quietly in the background without requiring you to respond to confusing security alerts.
• Threat blocking technology quietly monitors system activities to stop most spyware, viruses, and worms before they can install and cause damage on your system.
• Email and instant message scanning detects and removes infected attachments even if they're hidden in archives.
• Rootkit detection finds and removes threats that are hidden deeply in the operating system.
• Internet worm protection blocks an entire class of viruses, spyware, and worms with a single threat signature.
• Thorough pre-installation scan cleans out spyware and virus infections that can obstruct ordinary protection.
• Quick Scan automatically runs on receipt of new definitions to help ensure protection against the latest threats.
• Full System Scan performs a deep scan of the system and hard drive to remove existing spyware, viruses, and other threats.

Norton Identity Safe:
Antiphishing, Web site authentication, eavesdropping protection and confidential information management

• Advanced phishing protection identifies and blocks fraudulent Web sites designed to steal personal information.
• Adds a layer of targeted, real-time identity theft protection to prevent identity thieves from eavesdropping on your online shopping transactions and banking and brokerage sessions from login to logout.
• Blocks hard-to-detect phishing sites by deeply analyzing Web page elements for evidence of criminal activity.
• Authenticates the Web location and credentials of the most popular banking and shopping sites, so you know you're dealing with the true site and not a fake.

Norton Personal Firewall:
Two-way firewall

• Stay hidden when connected with a smart firewall that automatically configures protection settings.
• Log on at home, at a cafe, or on the road, and Norton Internet Security automatically optimizes your security settings.
• Two-way firewall blocks hackers from breaking into your computer and stops spyware from transmitting information.
• Trust Control automatically optimizes your protection settings based on the network--wired or wireless, public or private--to which you're connected.

Additional Features

• The Norton Add-on Pack delivers optional solutions for you and your family including antispam and parental controls.
• Connect with confidence knowing your protection is continuously updated for one year as new threats emerge.
• Includes protection updates and new product features as available throughout the renewable service period.
• Intrusion prevention shields newly discovered security holes in the operating system and applications to prevent viruses, worms, and hackers from entering through these vulnerabilities.
• Includes one year of automatic definition updates, new product features, and access to updated versions of Norton Internet Security throughout the life of your service subscription.

Product Description

NORTON INTERNET SECURITY 2008 CD SOP 5U UNSPSC CodeUNSPSC Code :  43233203 Product IDUPC:  037648610049Manufacturer Part:  12608439

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Capable protection - but with "issues", December 17, 2007

By 

William E. Zinn "'spresso freak" (Littleton, CO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Norton Internet Security 2008 5 User (CD-ROM)

As an IT Support person, it is mandatory for me to "keep abreast" of what security products are best for my clients' computers, considering the cost and level of protection accommodated.
And, in my opinion, Norton Internet Security 2008 is "the best bang for the buck" as compared to alternative security packages.
Norton has (in my opinion) ALWAYS been the "best of the best" (with the glaring exception of NIS2006 - God only knows how that got out of the Symantec Security labs and into distribution) - but there is a price to pay for this protection level, also...
Yes, it DOES slow a computer down and you'd be better off with as much RAM as you can install with this product installed on either Windows XP or Vista (which already demand large "pools" of memory available for adequate operation anyway...).
Of some significant note, tho, is NIS2008's tendency to "block" certain software operations that its predecessor (NIS2007) had no problem with.
Case in point: my own Windows Media computer now can no longer operate the ATI Remote Wonder wireless remote control "applet" if NIS2008 is installed.
Prior to "upgrading" to NIS2008, the installed version of NIS 2007 worked flawlessly with the ATI Remote Wonder, but NIS 2008 simply will not allow this "trusted application" to function (which, by the way I had to manually "allow" yet still will not work - and even Symantec's own support personnel cannot seem to get to work, either.. At least "so far"...).
I appreciate the security, fellas, but I'd also like the same level of operability I enjoyed before I "upgraded" to NIS 2008.

For a "normal" users point of view, no other security package compares to the level of protection that Norton Internet Security offers - just be prepared to find "a few issues" as regards "system performance" if you have a microprocessor with only a "single core" running at less than 2.4 GHz and less than 1 GB of RAM installed, and if something that is not on Norton's built-in "trusted application" list that once was working no longer functions, you may hve to "roll back" to NIS 2007 (by the way, if you already HAVE Norton Internet Security 2007 installed - stay there. Just "renew" your subscription. But if you have upgraded - like me - and if you need to 'roll-back' to NIS 2007, the license nubmer for NIS 2008 WILL work on an expired version of NIS 2007 and this will allow Symantec the time it obviously needs to "work the bugs out" of NIS 2008, in the meantime...).

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Only Installed on 4 out of 5 computers, November 4, 2007

By 

James Adcock "jimadcock" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Norton Internet Security 2008 5 User (CD-ROM)

Installed perfectly on four computers. On the fifth it balked, and Symantec tech has not yet been able to fix the problem. On the computers where it worked I love it because it allows me to monitor the security status of all the computers from any one computer.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Norton Internet Security 2008 review, January 28, 2008

By 

William E. Hooper (Newtown Square, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Norton Internet Security 2008 5 User (CD-ROM)

Very good product, I have installed more than a doz copies. One mysterious aspect. Nowhere on the box does it mention anti-spam and you would conclude that anti spam is not featured. Wrong - there is an add-on included on the installation disk which, although neither the disk nor the flimsy manual mentions it, does include anti-spam and parental controls. The anti spam is well integrated with Outlook, Outlook Express, and Windows Mail in Vista.