Lately I strongle suspect viruses are being geo-targeted. I hadn’t caught Norton on that (it’s uncommon around here and I rarely check their site) but I had that from Kaspersky (big time). Meaning companies lie to make their product look good. On information on sites – it’s heavily PR. So is it good antivirus for doing admirably in the test or bad antivirus because of letting real computer get infected? You may throw set of few thousands viruses at AV and it will be perfect but user may encounter none of those but something completely different… and undetected. Actually there is no way to directly compare and test most types of software.

Then why is it that Norton consistently rates among the best in the AV-comparatives testīecause there is no clear way how to test AV solution. The downside to this is that the program cannot be used to remove threats found during the scan. Norton Security Scan is a second opinion antivirus scanner for Windows that scans Windows devices with Symantec's latest virus definitions. It should be obvious by now that the program is great for users who want to perform additional security scans of their computer system but not for those who are looking for a complete security solution. Possibilities include research on the Internet to find a free antivirus software that can clean it or to contact the developer of the installed antivirus solution about the problem. The antivirus program is only a scanner which means it is not possible to clean the files directly. tracking cookie) including a description, the threat name and target name.

Norton Security Scan lists all discovered threads in a table on the main page providing information about the type of threat (e.g. The interface displayed banner advertisement during the scan Most users will probably minimize the program interface or move other applications into the foreground to prevent those distracting advertisements from appearing on the computer screen. A quick scan will only check the most common locations where viruses and other malicious programs are found usually, while the full system scan will check all files located on connected hard drives. The antivirus software performs a quick or full scan then of the computer system. The antivirus program will check the virus definition file and initiate a download of the latest if it is outdated. It does however perform only a partial scan of the computer system by default but this option can be changed in the settings on the main page.

What makes it interesting is that it uses the latest virus definition files that are also used in Norton retail antivirus software products. While it has been primarily designed to sell Norton antivirus products like Norton 360, it can be used to scan the system without interference with running antivirus solutions. Norton Security Scan is such a software program. They could use Online Virus scanning services to test their system, or rely on locally run software that does not interfere with the installed antivirus software. Users who currently use an antivirus software may nevertheless be inclined to scan their system from time to time with different scan engines to make sure that nothing slipped through the scanners of that security software. This is especially true for antivirus software solutions but also firewalls.

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