The Hindu : New `Norton' suites take on enemies

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Wednesday, Sep 10, 2003

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New `Norton' suites take on enemies

By Anand Parthasarathy

BANGALORE SEPT. 9. Even as corporate and lay users slowly recover from last month's massive viral attacks on the Web, Symantec Corporation today globally announced its new beefed up product range to against the `badmash' of broadband — the unseen enemy lurking at the end of `always on' Internet connections. The new range of Norton tools for 2004 seem to reflect a subtle shift in emphasis from preventing disaster on the desktop to a wider defence against all online threats.

The flagship "Norton Antivirus'' has been expanded to neutralise threats which are not strictly viral, but a nuisance all the same. These include `rogue applications' like `spyware' or cookies that report back on your preferences and settings or log your keystrokes; `adware' or unwanted advertisements; as well as those irritating `popup' windows which open on your screen, unasked.

Norton Internet Security 2004 will include all of Norton Antivirus together with its known defences by way of firewall, intrusion detection and privacy protection.

And in recognition of what has become every e-mailer's nightmare these days, it also includes a new standalone tool called Norton AntiSpam — to filter out the tens of unsolicited junk that comes to every user's inbox.

In a telephonic talk, Norman Kohlberger, Symantec's Senior Product Manager for the Asia Pacific region, explained that AntiSpam can be fully integrated with popular emailing utilities like Outlook and Eudora. One can also tell AntiSpam if it has goofed and filtered out an email one wanted to read.

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