The Internet is a dangerous place, and cybercriminals are getting more creative in ways to target you and your invaluable personal information. Norton Internet Security 2012 provides our most powerful virus, online and PC protection so you can do more without interruption.
WHAT'S NEW in Norton Internet Security 2012
Protection
Fake AV is one of the most visible and wide-spread threats that Internet users face today. Fake AV pretends to be security software and tempts the user to pay for it. Even worse, it can install additional malware on the system and claim the system is clean. New for 2012, we’ve included SONAR 4.0 and Norton Power Eraser 2.0 to help our customers combat Fake AV.
SONAR 4.0
SONAR Policy Enforcement – Have the ability to convict a suspicious process based on a behavioral “profile.†To create these profiles, an analyst looks at the 500+ attributes that SONAR tracks and make a series of associations
Non Process Threats (NPTs). As the name suggests, these threats are not active processes by themselves, but they inject themselves into legitimate active processes. SONAR 4.0 technology is able to much more aggressively remove threats on pre-infected machines.