You’ll also find settings for Norton Safe Web, a browser extension that blocks malicious pages and adds rating icons to web search results, so you can steer clear of dodgy sites. Since the app is free, however, its inclusion here doesn’t add much value to Norton Security. It’s a perfectly good tool, and you can use it across all your computers and mobile devices by installing the standalone app on each system. The headline here is the Norton Identity Safe password manager. The Identity pane opens Norton’s privacy protection features. Here you’ll find fine-grained controls for determining what gets scanned, and what happens when a suspicious item is found.
If you want to properly customise Norton Security’s behaviour, you can click to jump into the main Settings interface. There’s also a set of toggles, allowing you to configure various real-time protection features: these are all switched on by default, however, and we see no reason why you’d ever want to turn them off. Click on the first of these and a new set of buttons appears allowing you to launch a scan, update the databases and check your history. Norton’s features divide into Security, Identity and Performance. The interface is very clean, to the extent of looking a little bare. READ NEXT: Our guide to the best antivirus packages you can buy (or get for free) User interface and settings An 18% impact on website loading placed it very near the top of the table, too. With the software installed, AV-Test found that applications launched a negligible 6% more slowly – a tiny fraction behind Bitdefender’s first-place 4%. Indeed, this month Norton Security – the “Internet” has been dropped, implying a broader remit – proved one of the nimblest suites on test. Some people will tell you that Norton is a resource hog in reality, that hasn’t been true for many years.
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