Norton Antivirus - My First Choice For PC Security?

Norton Antivirus, owned by symantec is one of the best known providers of PC security suites in the market. They have a number of software applications available such as PC Tune-UP, Back-Up & Restore, and they also make software applications that run on a Mac!

Their flagship product, norton antivirus has been around for a long time and undergone many programming makeovers. In the beginning it provided plain old virus protection and its aim was to stop the nasty hackers from gaining access to your trusted and faithful PC.

As massive advances were being made in online technology a race develepod between the hackers, releasing some juicy new trojan to sneak past your pc security and the makers of online security  solutions trying to prevent them from succeeding.

The race is still ongoing today.

The advent of high speed broadband and progressive technologies like; online chat, video messaging, online banking and online shopping have turned this into a massive market & opportunity for companies like symantec to capitalise on. Software security providers are not the only ones who have profitted as hackers and cyberabuse in general has soared in the last few years

To combat this threat companies and home computer users alike have had to learn some rules and shell out some cash if they want any chance of keeping their confidential information, "confidential."

Today norton antivirus comprises a protection solution that will protect and remove; viruses, spyware, worms and trojans. It will scan your incoming email for infected attachments and neutralize it if required. The same level of protection covers software applications like msn messnger and yahoo messenger.

It will also scan and hope to detect any rootkits that have managed to get onto your system. I have to say that the jury is still out on the effectiveness of root-kit detecters and detection but at least it may present some kind of protection against this advanced threat.

There has been much talk over the years from dedicated symantec followers, that the program has got too big and too resource hungry. The company took this on board and locked their programmers in the lab till they emerged with nortons 2008 version.

There are many antivirus scanners and internet security suites available on the market today and Symantec products are only one possible choice when considering how to protect your home computer. Would symantec software be my first choice for securing my laptop or pc, probably not.

It is not the worst product available on the market by far, but norton antivirus is not the best either?