Norton Confidential 2007 [Old Version]

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Product Features

• Anti-Phishing fraudulent Website protection
• Trusted Website authentication and anti-pharming protection
• Signature and behavioral crimeware blocking
• InfoVault login and password protection
• Authenticates popular banking and shopping Web sites

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000IALMMW
• Item model number: 10745134
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 23, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 1.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #6,504 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com
Norton Confidential safeguards against online identity theft, protecting your confidential information from fraudulent phishing Web sites and crimeware before login, purchase, or any online interaction. Norton Confidential protects you when you’re most vulnerable: at a Web site while banking or shopping online, and about to submit passwords, account numbers, or other confidential information.

Norton Confidential automatically inspects Web sites—and potentially dangerous or identity-stealing programs on your PC—for known threats and suspicious behavior before you log in, make a purchase, or otherwise interact with them. If a threat is detected, Norton Confidential protects your passwords and other confidential information from an attack—such as getting phished by fraudulent Web sites, or having your keystrokes secretly recorded by identity thieves.

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In a pharming scam, a criminal programer hacks into a domain server and sends you to a fake Web site, which could trick you into submitting a username and password. To prevent pharming, Norton Confidential gives you a visual confirmation that a Web page has been verified as belonging to the company represented. View larger.

Anti-Phishing Fraudulent Web Site Protection
Norton Confidential includes an Internet Explorer Toolbar Plug-in that helps you to see Web page risk status at any time. The software filters and blocks phishing Web sites to help ensure you do not inadvertently give personal information to a fraudulent site. Norton Confidential provides a visual categorization for authentic sites, good sites, suspicious sites, and bad sites, making it easy for you to know status as you shop and browse online.

Anti-Pharming Protection
In addition to blocking fraudulent or suspicious sites, Norton Confidential authenticates top banking and shopping transaction sites to provide a global multi-layer shielding protection. You'll get a visual confirmation that a Web page has been verified by Symantec as belonging to the company represented—or in simple terms, the site is really who it says it is.

Signature and Behavioral Crimeware Blocking
Norton Confidential protects users from hidden crimeware designed to steal confidential or personally identifying information. While detecting and removing known threats, there is minimal disruption for the user—Norton Confidential works in the background. Norton Confidential is designed to coexist with Norton AntiVirus and Norton Internet Security in addition to competitive antivirus and Internet security solutions. Even if you already use one layer of computer protection, Norton Confidential adds another layer of protection, specifically for online threats with financial damage potential.

InfoVault Login and Password Protection
Norton Confidential automatically detects, stores and protects your logins and passwords. You can then use one "master" password instead of countless individual Web site logins; individual passwords and protected by the master password. Norton Confidential prevents users from inadvertently sending password and login information to unauthorized sites, and provides convenient way to migrate stored passwords from Norton Password Manager.

A Real-time Integrated Solution
Norton Confidential is one of the only fully integrated solution that protects against both phishing and crimeware at the point of transaction. Most solutions provide protection against one vector requiring users to "piece together" their safety status and/or are not "transaction sensitive".

Intelligent Prevention
Norton Confidential uses advanced heuristics to provide zero-hour protection from online identity theft without requiring known phishing URLs or crimeware definitions. Other solutions rely heavily on signatures, which are insufficient for protection from quickly evolving threats.

Effortless Protection
Norton Confidential is the only solution that allows you to complete their transactions uninterrupted by offering behavior blocking technology that prevents suspicious applications from capturing sensitive information.

For Your Eyes Only
Password protection prevents you from accidentally submitting your passwords to unauthorized sites—providing a failsafe against emerging phishing attacks.

Symantec Response Expertise
Norton Confidential is the only consumer security solution that authenticates secure Web sites and does so without requiring the Web sites to make any changes to their sites. Symantec Response team on-going Web site profiling delivers in-depth protection for popular banking, shopping and eCommerce sites.

Product Description
Safeguard your personal information from online identity theft. Norton Confidential protects you when you're most vulnerable: at a Web site while banking or shopping online, and about to submit passwords, account numbers, or other confidential information. Norton Confidential automatically inspects Web sites--and potentially dangerous or identity-stealing programs on your PC--for known threats and suspicious behavior before you log in, make a purchase, or otherwise interact with them. If a threat is detected, Norton Confidential protects your passwords and other confidential information from an attack--such as getting phished by fraudulent Web sites, or having your keystrokes secretly recorded by identity thieves.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not Worth Your While, December 4, 2006

By	G. Olson "Gary O" (Round Lake, IL) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I recently purchased this software and had to uninstall it. In my case, I was unable to get into my Quicken account, which is password protected. One of the features of Confidential is an "Information Vault" which stores all passwords. I was prompted to enter the Quicken one as well, but chose not to as I felt this would defeat the purpose of having a password set up in the first place. After that, when I would enter the Quicken password, my machine would just hang up. The only way I could get in was by opening it in safe mode.

I believe that this product sounds appealing on the surface, but when you get down to it, it promises more than it can deliver. I also think that when it comes to internet security, the best solution is to take reasonable precaution. If you respond to an e-mail requesting your account numbers and passwords, a software package is not going to save you.

I purchased this product based on my previous experience with Norton products and have been quite satisfied with their performance. Thus, I was extremely disappointed with this product.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Huge Resource Hog, Doesn't work well with IE 7, January 21, 2007

By	M. Giordano "New Dad" (IL USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This product caused my IE 7 browser to hang just about every time I used it. It causes internet pages to load very slow. This product scans every internet page before it will load the page. Many of the features that this product boasts come standard and FREE with the new IE 7 (such as phishing protection). This product is NOT compatible if you use Norton System Works.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Truly Awful Software- be aware!, November 25, 2006

By	Joecompute (Buffalo Grove, Il United States) - See all my reviews

As others have noted, this product prevents AOL from loading on my machine - it just stalls (AOL is using a connection via Cable). It also "automatically" registers itself with Symantec and starts the counting of the 1 year subscription unless you cut of internet access. I removed it from that machine (a Toshiba Laptop) and installed it on my backup Dell (an older Pentium 3 866mhz). Both were running XP with the latest updates. It slowed Internet Explorer to a crawl and locked it up when I attempted to first write this review. It also slowed overall performance, when not in the browser, though this seems illogical. I uninstalled it (it was the only Norton product on the machine) and it left Live Update installed until I manually started the removal of it. Fortunately everything is back to normal after removing all. This is truly dangerous software for those with at least my type of equipment: Stay away unless you have very poor browsing security and a machine that does not choke on it.