Norton Internet Security 2009

Norton Internet Security 2009 review

Symantec Norton is a great software producer well knowing by computer users because it producing top quality security software, and Norton Internet Security 2009 is one of them.

Norton Internet Security’s Firewall

Symantec decided to put some advanced settings into their new firewall on Norton Internet Security 2009. You can set up easily some new rules for package filtering or some other custom firewall rules. Anyway, if something goes wrong you can reset the firewall to default settings very easily. NIS 2009 is a good choice if you want a software easy to set and you want to profit by advanced settings of Norton’s firewall.

Antivirus component

In 2009, Norton Antivirus passed with success all our tests and is ISCA and VB 100% certified for very good virus detection antivirus. All these tests in laboratories are very difficult to passed and these certifications demonstrates that Norton Internet Security is a very powerful antivirus too.
NIS 2009 found and removed quickly all of the virus posted by us on our test system. With the realtime scanner activated all the new viruses are detected in very short time. Like a conclusion: the antivirus component from latest version of Norton Internet Security is a powerful and valuable antivirus and you can count on it.

Antispyware component

One of the powerful antispyware tested by us is included in Norton Internet Security 2009. This antispyware it was really impressing in detection of phishing and malware. This filter is easily integrated with Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers and works very well. Our tests revealed that this antispyware has powerful scanning and prevention features. All these characteristics are well integrated in this version of NIS 2009 and make from using the computer a great experience.

Other Features

Identity Safe is a useful feature of Norton Internet Security 2009 which helps keep your data (like usernames and passwords) secure and well protected. Idea that animate Identity Safe is using a database too keep encrypt your usernames and password. In this way all your privacy data are safe from using in some illegitimate websites.
A very big minus for Norton Internet Security 2009 is using of parental control. This version of NIS 2009 has not included that option. Maybe in next version, Symantec will decide to use a module for Parental Control.

How to Use ?

Norton Internet Security is a program made to install and forget. After installation all of Norton security features are running at defaults. If you want, you can keep all these settings at default level. Anyway, Norton Internet Security is customizable and you can change the default settings with just few clicks of mouse.
NIS 2009 has a well designed interface with easy to navigate menus and buttons. All these menus and buttons have detailed descriptions just before. In this way you can easily setup every feature you want.

Installation and Setup process

Norton Internet Security’s installation process is simple and the software will guide you through the entire. Installation and setup was easily and we didn’t have problems with it.
A strange thing at this software was the time for updating. First update took about 15 minutes. This first update was very long but the rest of updates was normally. Another unpleasant thing at Norton Internet Security was uninstalling process. The uninstall let in your computer some files in previous installation folder in condition when Symantec declare that no registry and no directories are left after uninstallation.

Help and Support

For this version of Norton Internet Security, the producer, Symantec offers a great support for all the customers. An unpleasant thing at this support is phone support which costs (yes, costs) about 10 USD / per intervention. This is not a good thing for a powerful software producer. Anyway, all other supports are free and you can easily use live chat support if you want. For this chat support you must have time because the support team makes you wait about 15-20 minutes before discuss with you.