Product Description
- The newest tools like Worm Blocking for monitoring your outbound e-mail traffic -- if anything resembling a worm is detected, the mail is stopped and the User is alerted
- Advanced heuristics help Worm Blocking work without the constant need for updates
- All instant message attachments are scanned for potential virus infection
- The Software is completely automated and runs on its own -- your hands-on time is minimal. Norton handles all viruses, worms, and Trojans and tells you when it's done!
Symantec AntiVirus for MAC 9 . Symantec's Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh 9.0 is the world's most trusted antivirus solution for Macintosh systems. It automatically removes viruses, worms, and Trojan horses from email attachments, Internet downloads, and other sources-without interrupting your work. Now it can even detect and repair infections within file archives. Not sure whether a file is infected? Norton AntiVirus places suspicious files in a special quarantine area of your hard drive to protect your system until you can find out more about them. Not only does Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh 9.0 detect Macintosh and macro viruses, it even finds and removes PC viruses to ensure that you don't spread infections to friends and colleagues. Symantec's exclusive LiveUpdate technology helps protect against the latest threats by automatically checking for new virus definitions and downloading them to your computer over the Internet. LiveUpdate now downloads only the definitions you don't yet have, so upds are small, fast, and efficient. Viruses and other malicious programs are an unfortunate fact of computer life. Don't leave your valuable data vulnerable a minute longer. Protect it today with Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh.
Norton AntiVirus for MAC 9 Features:
- Detects and blocks viruses in instant message attachments
- Exclusive Worm Blocking technology detects worms such as Nimda
- Automatically removes viruses, worms, and Trojan horses
- Worm Blocking and Script Blocking can detect new threats even before virus definitions are created
- Scans and cleans both incoming and outgoing email messages
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Broken (Un)installation
I couldn't be more disappointed. I have installed it successfully twice in the past, but my latest effort has been nothing but disappointment. I have been working on this for a number of hours, and continually get stuck on the NAV Update, where it successfully retrieves the various update files, but can't apply the last "Virus Def" (or at least couldn't Process it in 8 hours...). Worse, is that the product refuses all attempts to uninstall itself either (Unknown errors...). So, I'm left with a newly built machine, with a non-functioning NAV which won't successfully install nor uninstall. I am quickly reaching a point where I will need to wipe this disk and reinstall OSX from stratch. An anti-virus program should not be written so poorly to have to require this...