Keeping your PC protected with Norton 360
Norton 360 delivers all-in-one total protection of your computer, encompassing anti-spyware, anti-virus, anti-phishing, online identity theft protection, backup & restore, and PC performance tune-up.
Norton 360 gives you total protection against all known threats and potential loss of data in one convenient product.
All tasks, including backup, are performed for you automatically in the background, so that you can work, play and surf the Web without worry. However, if you have a flair for advanced customizations, Norton 360 also lets you fine-tune your firewall settings, virus settings and automatic schedules.
Norton 360 is encompasses the following categories of protection:
- PC and Online Security stops viruses at the point of entry, removes spyware from your machine, removes infected attachments from email and downloaded files, protects against zero-day threats, and performs regular virus scans of the whole system
- PC tune-up and performance optimization Finds and fixes common performance issues, cleansweeps cookies and temporary files, defragments fragmented files
- Backup & Restore backs up documents, videos, photos, and music files to a local media or remote online storage server
- Identity protection protects your identity from being stolen while you visit websites on the Internet
How to maintain peak level of protection with Norton 360
Once installed, Norton 360 provides automated protection for your PC. However, to keep your protection level high at all times, you are advised to learn how to avoid common threats that may compromise your computer's security.
To avoid viruses, rootkits, Trojan horses, worms and bots, do the following:
- Avoid downloading files from untrusted sources or P2P networks
- Refrain from receiving files and archives over instant messaging connections
- Do not follow any URLs sent to you via instant messaging connection, even if sent form a person your buddy list, because this may be result of a virus on their side. Before following any links, first confirm if the link they send you is secure
To avoid spyware infections, do the following
- Do not click "OK" or "Confirm" nor approve any suspicious error or alert messages that may pop-up from time to time on various Web sites. These alerts will try to look genuine, while their sole purpose is to infect you with spyware once you click them. Do not.
- Never download freeware or shareware programs that you are not 100% sure they are free from malware. Otherwise be sure, you will get infected with spying software.
- Always pay close attention to the End User License Agreement for the applications you install on your computer. If they will attempt to install additional software (plugins, extensions, other software) at the same time, you are highly likely to be installing spyware on this occasion.
To avoid phishing scams:
- When you visit online banking sites, shopping sites, PayPal or the like, type the address directly into your browser rather than clicking a link, especially when someone sent you that link asking you to click it
- Never provide personal information and passwords you use elsewhere on sites you don't trust. Always look for the "https://" in the Web address which means, this connection is encrypted. If it's not, don't send them your passwords.
- Do not provide personal information to any unsolicited requests for information, especially via suspicious emails
To avoid email scams and viruses:
- Make sure, you don't open any attachments until you confirm they are safe and don't contain viruses
- Don't even think about opening, reading or clicking any link in emails that spammers sent you. Just delete them.
- Do not respond to email that you suspect is spam. Spammers will tout you to respond to them so that they can have your email address confirmed as working. If you do this, expect thousands of spam emails in your mailbox each day.