Overall, not a very strong antivirus and malware protection performance for Norton Security.Ī firewall is your first line of defense against new threats trying to infiltrate your PC. But this time, a separate piece of adware changed our testing PCs to be Japanese, including '360 Antivirus.' One of the strangest incidents was when the same rogue antivirus we described above (360 Antivirus) slipped through. Most that slipped through were a variety of adware geared to take your money. The others were given warnings, but we could still install them. With a fresh, fully updated Norton, we tried to download and install multiple malware samples to see how Norton would react in real-time to the threats.Ībout 50% of the samples were blocked and/or deleted when we tried to run them. Even still, it wasn't a great ending to an otherwise decent performance.Īs for real-time protection Norton Security Deluxe didn't do very well either-and it usually excels here. So much so that Norton and our systems became useless. On top of that, despite doing a decent job at cleanup, our testing PCs-and Norton itself-became buggy and unresponsive.
