66 PCWorld OCTOBER 2020REVIEWS NORTON 360 DELUXE
Norton 360 Deluxe
PROS- Many extra features.
- Very good protection.
CONS - Parental control device linking was a little slow.
- Pricing now covers 5 devices, down from 10.
BOTTOM LINE
Norton 360 Deluxe is the new suite we recommend
from NortonLifeLock, as Premium Security is now
retired. There aren’t a lot of fundamental changes to
the suite compared to previous iterations. The
pricing now covers fewer devices, but you do get a
good number of extra features such as Dark Web
Monitoring and VPN access.
$40
their PC due to aggressive parental controls,
well, that can get annoying. Parents can
extend the child’s computer time manually by
entering their Norton account password, but
it’d be preferable to have full control much
sooner.PERFORMANCE
In AV-Test’s round of testing from May and
June 2020 (go.pcworld.com/mj20), Norton
scored 100 percent on the 0-day malware
attacks test, as well as the widespread and
prevalent malware test.
Over at AV-Comparatives (go.pcworld.
com/avlf), Norton blocked 100 percent of
samples in the real-world protection test
from May 2020 with 27 false positives. In
the malware protection test, it also scoredThe My Norton app on Windows 10.a 100 percent, with 25
false positives. All in all,
the protection results
are excellent.
For our in-house
performance tests, we
saw no significant
changes in performance
between the PC with and
without Norton 360
Deluxe installed.BOTTOM LINE
Norton 360 is a very
good suite with a good
price. If you’re looking
for excellent antivirus protection that won’t
get in your way with a good amount of
features then Norton 360 Deluxe is the
suite to buy.