I had one of those people who hate Norton products the way they behave on the system and large memory consumption associated with them. But every time they release a new version even at beta stage, I downloaded and tried to see whether improved or not and if increased, then to what extent.
DOWNLOAD, INSTALLATION AND ACTIVATION
SO today I will be talking about Norton Internet security 2011 beta. I had to download norton internet security installer from Symantec beta website. It was a web installer which means, a small installer which uses your net connection to download the real installer. I hate these web installer as you cannot install the application if you don t have a working internet connection. Anyway, The installer downloaded the files which were more than 80 MB. The installation was quite fast much much fast than I expected. Frankly speaking I never have seen a security suite , Internet security or antivirus getting installed so quickly.
Installation didn t even asked for a reboot and started working straight away. That s a great as we all hate reboots in windows. Now I needed to activate it within 7 days. I used the key received in email from Symantec to activate it. Here I noticed a welcome change. The key was valid for a period of 120 days a big leap from previous beta versions which gave just 15 days.
After the installation, I just ran the Live update module to check for any updates available.
I was just surprised at the size of update file which was available. It was almost the size of the setup file, 81.33 MB to be precise. ITs too big update for a newly installed product with the latest installer and Norton guys must do something about it as for many of us, its too to update with such big update due to poor internet connections.
Now i went to task manager to see the effect of Norton internet security 2011 on Memory usage of the system. Frankly speaking I didn t believe the value shown in Task manager. The memory consumption was merely ~5 MB. I checked it again and it stayed at same figure. Kudos to norton guys for achieving this.
After this I jumped to another memory hogging feature. I ran a full system scan on the system and then went to task manager to see the memory consumption. Once again, I was surprised to see the result. The memory consumption was just ~43 MB. This value is still too low compared to previous versions better than even most of the other best AV suites. I didnt note the time taken for a full 80 GB system scan but it didn t took more than 30 minutes.
I was not able to find the direct link to download Norton Internet security offline installer.You can still download Norton Internet security 2011 beta web installer with a valid 120 days key here.
by:abhe
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