General Tech Info

Internet is the excellent source of information. While browsing websites through Internet a very important tool is required to prevent virus from affecting. Such an important tool is called Antivirus program which prevents from the virus programs.

Symantec Norton plays a professional role in protecting the computer. Symantec Norton recently came out with a latest version named as Norton Internet Security 2009.

Important Features:

• Norton Internet Security 2009 offers the following features.

• The very special feature is that it has a two-way firewall, which doubles the blocking efficiency.

• It gives a strong spyware and worms protection.

• The real-time SONAR prevents the bots from entering the system.

• Protects system from one of the hacking techniques called as phishing and allows only authenticated website to browse.

Benefits:

• Emails and instant messages will be blocked if is infected by virus.

• Threats are identified and erased immediately.

• Also provides security to the network connections.

• Risk files are immediately removed by new Norton technology.

Disadvantages:

The speed of the system is reduced largely. If the system is outdated from the required configuration then utilization rate of Norton Internet security 2009 will be less. Technical assistance is offered only for 12 months after which it is made as billable.

Hence apart from the small disadvantage Norton Internet security 2009 is excellent antivirus software.

One of the most important web browsers is Internet Explorer. Its major credit is that it comes with the installation of Microsoft Windows. Internet Explorer has also crossed many updates and it settled now in its latest version named as Internet Explorer 8(IE 8).

The important features of this version are given below.

Features of New version:

• A special option is embedded with this browser named as ‘In Private Blocking’. Normally plug-ins will block the pop ups which user has to set. But this option will automatically stop the advertisements especially porn ads and hence this option is called as ‘porn mode’.

• IE 8 comes with a control panel, which automatically clears the history by keeping certain important data by the ‘Delete Browsing history’ option.

• Quick tab option will provide a better visibility of the websites user want to visit. When operating with more number of website tabs this option is very useful to view the full website by simply clicking the quick tab.

• Internet explorer 8 isolates your browsing data from the third party content on websites. This is a most important feature, as it will avoid hackers from accessing the user data.

Hence Internet explorer 8 clubbed with powerful tools also won customer satisfaction by its remarkable performance.

Microsoft Security Essentials is, as the name suggests, a security software which mostly comes pre-budled with various Windows based PCs or laptops.  It uses signature service and show suspicious files to the user. Microsoft Security Essentials is user friendly Antivirus software, which works comparatively better than Windows defender. Once you install Microsoft Security essentials it will uninstall other antivirus program from your computer. Since Windows OS has built in firewall protection Microsoft Security Essentials does not have firewall protection. It also does not repair the registry and you need to get registry cleaner to scan your computer registry. Thus Microsoft Security Essentials will protect most of the Windows OS computers which has been neglected protection against virus.