First is SafeCam (currently only for Windows) which as its moniker suggests, notifies you whenever applications and malware try to access your webcam. There are two other important features which as of writing this article, aren’t available on Quick Heal’s Total Security platform albeit can be found on Norton’s 360 Premium tool. You’ll also get 100GB of cloud storage should you subscribe to Norton’s Premium plan, which will add yet another preventative layer to the important data that you’d otherwise store on hard drives – which are prone to disk-failures and ransomware.
In a nutshell, you’re getting a fantastic, must-have service for free with Norton’s 360 Premium plan. More importantly, however, a VPN will help mask your digital footprint and encrypt the information you send and receive when connected to a public hotspot. Now, I don’t need to outline the benefits of using a VPN – for one, you can access websites that might be otherwise blocked on the public Wi-Fi. In fact, Norton’s premium package even comes with the company’s standalone VPN utility which if purchased separately, will set you back anywhere between Rs 1,800 to Rs 2,500 per year. Right off the bat, Norton’s 360 Premium offered more features when compared to Quick Heal Total Security. In order to test Norton’s latest security tool, I not only took a closer look at the features it offered but even compared it to Pune-based Quick Heal’s Total security utility.
Read on to know whether Norton’s 360 Premium is the anti-virus for your PC or not. Having spent a few months with the tool kit, I’ve some thoughts. Thankfully, the market for keeping viruses and malware out is just as proactive and recently, Norton offered me to test out its 360 Premium software. Be that as it may, these built-in utilities are not – at least yet – equipped to be the ‘be all, end all’ of your PC’s security.
Our PCs have come a long way from being virus-magnets and over the years, both Microsoft and Apple have baked numerous security features into their respective operating systems to make them more robust and alert to viruses.
Although these features are a little redundant, they can be of use to increasing the overall performance of your windows pc.If you recently bought a Windows 10 or macOS machine, then chances are that you didn’t bother installing antivirus software on it. Also, there is an online activity log that will show you how much hard drive space is being used, and if any harmful malicious files are being downloaded to your system. It does allow you to optimize your windows settings with various different options and allows you to clean up your hard drive if you're getting bogged down by junk in your windows. The real problem is that its interface can be a little 'clunky', and overall its interface can be frustrating to use.
However, the problem with Norton Utilities isn't that it lacks features that make your pc faster. However, the performance enhancement feature that this utility possesses often takes a back seat in many other reviews of Norton Utilities, because other programs like AVG and XP Registry Cleaner excel at this task. Once the scan is finished, the utility will remove all the problematic elements that were found, allowing your computer to run much more smoothly and effectively as a result. It runs a vigorous check on your computer system, looking for security holes and other problematic elements that could be causing damage to your system. But its real strength comes in the form of its scanning engine, which is one notch above the mediocre. Norton Utilities does what it sets out to do: removing malware from your computer without much effort. However, its performance enhancement and feature set do not match those of many Editors' choices, such as AVG TuneUp and Iolo System Mechanic. It does what it sets out to do: removing malware from your computer without much effort. Norton Utilities is nothing special: a free antivirus replacement. It doesn't get much better than that and in fact is largely mediocre at best.