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VIRTUALISATION Norton Internet Security 2009 – the “whoa!” rewrite
VIRTUALISATION Norton Internet Security 2009 – the “whoa!” rewrite | Norton Internet Security 2009 – the “whoa!” rewrite |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Monday, 01 September 2008 | |
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Competitors all have good solutions, to be sure, with companies such as AVG, BitDefender and ZoneAlarm all working hard to ensure their security suites didn’t turn into bloatware packages, and putting up a big fight to the yellow-boxed Norton Internet Security package. But when you’re the market leader, you obviously want to stay there, and with something like 50 million customers around the world (for both Norton Internet Security and Norton 360), Symantec has a lot at stake to ensure as many of those people as possible stay with Symantec for the next version. Now, Symantec aren’t stupid – the company has known that its software has had a reputation, of late, for being a performance hog. And with the vast majority of tech support calls coming from people with older machines, performance is a serious issue. Symantec has worked hard to make Norton 360 and NIS 2008 less resource intensive than ever, but with Norton Internet Security 2009, they’ve decided to take that to a whole new level, and are promising “Zero Impact Performance”. This is a very big claim, but anyone who tries out the “pre-release beta” of NIS 2009 (as I have) can see this claim stacks up. It's a 14 day trial version, and while it has a "beta" tag it's been solid on my machine, at least. So, what did Symantec’s developers do? Well, there are more than 300 changes to the product, with Symantec going over every line of code, every byte of memory and every millisecond of time previously used up to deliver security. With that kind of efficiency and deep inspection, I jokingly asked at the “Norton Reviewers Workshop” why Symantec aren’t hiring out their programmers to Microsoft... Anyway, Symantec said that underneath the sheets of the new NIS 2009, a lot of “boring, unglamorous” work was done to really speed things up. This extends even to the installation process, which now using “imaging” technology to ensure the software installs in record time. Symantec claims the final version will install in less than 60 seconds. So, is this 60 seconds claim accurate – and what else has Norton done to NIS 2009? Please read on to page 2. |
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