64 PCWorld OCTOBER 2020REVIEWS NORTON 360 DELUXE
program that determines which files should
be scanned during a quick scan.
While most people will just need the
quick scan and full system scan options, it’s
great that all these tools are easily accessible
by the user. Beyond scans, the Security
section also houses the SafeCam settings for
keeping rogue programs away from your
webcam. There isn’t much to do with
SafeCam, but if it’s ever giving you issues, this
is where you can turn it off.
Internet Security features access to the
password manager, password generator, and
Norton’s browser extensions. As we’ve noted
before, Norton doesn’t bother you too much
with notifications about its features; however,
it does love to notify you from time to time if
you don’t have all of the Norton browser
extensions installed.
The essential one is Norton Safe Web,which warns you about malicious sites, and
puts a green check mark next to safe sites in
your Google results and a red “x” next to
bad ones.
In our opinion, the other extensions are less
important. Norton Home Page and Norton
Safe Search are particularly unimpressive and
essentially do the work that one extension
could. Safe Search makes Norton Safe Search
your default browser search engine, and Home
Page redirects your browser’s new tab pages
and the Home button to Norton Safe Search.
In our experience, these two extensions just
get in your way. There’s also a Norton
Password Manager extension, which is
essential if you use this program for storing all
your passwords.
Backup is pretty straightforward. Setting it
up allows you to keep copies of essential files
in Norton’s Secure Cloud Storage. If you
don’t want your files in
Norton’s cloud there’s
also an option for saving it
to local storage.
Norton Deluxe also
includes some system
optimization features
including disk
optimization, file cleanup,
a startup manager, and a
graph showing
performance history. You
can find a lot of these
The Internet Security section of Norton 360 Deluxe. features in Windows itself