Norton Internet Security 2012 tested by Av-Test

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Jack

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Av-Test has tested today Norton Internet Security 2012 , here are the results :

Detection : For this test AV-Test used 125 886 malware samples colected in the recent months.
Norton Internet Security 2012 detected 98.94% of the malware samples.


Removal : AV-Test installed 30 malware samples on a virtual machine.Norton Internet Security 2012 has detected and removed 28 samples.
As a result Norton Internet Security 2012 got a 83.3% disinfection rate for the removal test.


Web-based malware : In the so-called real-world test with zero day threats , NIS 2012 has manage to block all the 51 malicious links, getting a perfect 100% detection rate.

False Positive : Norton Internet Security was tested with 33.000 files , the 2012 suite didn't generate any FP.

The test was published in the German magazine PcWelt. (Read with Google Translate - link)
 

Jack

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NIS 2012 got some very good results , and there are intense rumors on many blogs from my country which say that today Symantec might release the final version of NIS 2012.
 
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NIS is good since 2010 so for those who like norton, go for it !
 

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Very impressive, well balanced detection rates and even the FP rates are managed to avoid it.
 
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