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included for free in your subscription. Performance
includes the usual extras premium security suites offer
such as a hard drive optimizer, file cleanup, startup
manager, and some performance reports. These are
nice to have in one package, but as we’ve noted many
times before, you can find these features for free as a
part of Windows or as third-party utilities.
Finally,upatthetop,Nortonis stillrockingits
reportcard feature which offers a summary of key
security actions on your PC.
This is essentially the Norton Security Premium
suite we saw last time around – same interface with
some very minor additions and changes. That might
be a good thing as Norton was already our top choice.
Norton doesn’t have quite as many extra features as
other security suites, but it does have all the more
useful features we expect to see in suites like this one.
Performance
A-V Test’s September and October testing included
Norton versions 22.15 and 22.16 – the latter being
the version of Norton we’re reviewing here. In both
September and October, Norton earned a 100 percent
rating for protection against 0-day malware including
both web and email threats based on more than 300
samples. For its larger malware test with more than
21,000 samples, Norton also scored 100 percent in
October and November.
Moving over to AV-Comparatives and its real-world
protection test, Norton blocked 99 percent of the
192 sample threats, with one false positive. For its