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Norton's 2005 security line-up

Robert Vamosi CNET

Published: 18 Aug 2004

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Symantec has responded to Web-based worm attacks such as MSBlast and Sasser with beefed-up Norton security products for 2005, offering new protection against phishing scams and other identity-theft schemes along the way. The new Norton line-up also emphasises ease of use, with several back-end programming enhancements in each application to provide more proactive defences against an ever-changing threat landscape. Whether these products do what they say remains to be seen: Symantec will release gold code in the next few weeks -- check back then for our final word.

Norton's 2005 security line-up
	Norton AntiVirus 2005	Norton Personal Firewall 2005	Norton Internet Security 2005	Norton AntiSpam 2005
Product type
	Antivirus	Firewall	Internet suite	Antispam
Date available
	Early September	Mid September	Mid September	Mid September
Price
	£39.99 (3- and 5-user packs £79.99 and £119.99)	£39.99	£49.99 (3-user pack £99.99)	£24.99
Highlights
	Norton AntiVirus 2005's claim to fame is that its Worm Protection feature borrows from firewall technology to block inbound ports so that you can protect yourself against worm attacks such as MSBlast. Its new QuickScan feature also scans your whole system quickly upon receipt of the latest virus definitions.	Next year's Norton Personal Firewall includes a privacy protection feature designed to keep your credit card information safe on your hard drive, not circulating on the Internet without your permission. On the other hand, you can also whitelist certain trusted sites, such as your online bank account, to prevent needless alert notifications.	Norton Internet Security 2005 introduces Outbreak Alert, a system of notifications of Internet threats and protection strategies, plus spam-filtering capabilities within Yahoo Mail. Other enhancements include a feature to filter out URLs commonly used by phishing scammers and spam filters for various language sets.	Norton AntiSpam's filtering capabilities now extend to Yahoo Mail (last year's version scanned only Hotmail and MSN Mail). Enhancements include a feature to filter out URLs commonly used by phishing scammers, plus spam filters set to block various language sets.

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