JANUARY 2022 PCWorld 37While 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 free 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 extension is Norton Safe
Web, which warns you about malicious sites,
and puts a green checkmark next to safe sites
in your Google results and a
red “x” next to bad ones.
In my 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 to local storage.
Norton 360 Deluxe also includes some
system optimization features such as disk
optimization, file cleanup, a startup manager,
and a graph showing performance history.
You can find a lot of these features in
Windows itself or in free third-party programs,
but if you’re getting Norton 360 anyway it’s
nice to have all these features there.
The Dark Web Monitoring tool runs offThe Internet Security section of Norton 360 Deluxe.