Dear Norton Community,
We are glad to announce that we have completed testing our latest inline releases of Norton AntiVirus 2012 / Norton Internet Security 2012 and we are ready to release the patches for English users.
To receive the update, simply run LiveUpdate and download the update. A reboot will be required.
To verify you have the update, launch the Main User Interface, click on Support, and select About. The version number of the new release for Norton AntiVirus and Norton Internet Security will be 19.6.1.8.
19.6.1.8 contains changes and fixes from the previous version. Some of these changes include:
- Updated Monthly Report Card behavior
- Updated the Norton Toolbar look and feel
- MS Word 2003/2007 “Open dialog box” error will no longer appear (Discussed Here)
- Corrected an issue that was causing some ID safe login problems (Discussed Here) (Discussed Here)
This patch also contains fixes from the previous patch. Some of those changes included:
- Corrected an issue where Popup Notifications could not be disabled
- Added “Secure Resume” feature – Identity Safe Locked when computer goes in to sleep mode.
- Out-of-the-box support for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox versions released between 19.2 and 19.5.
- Improved Cloud-based detections.
- Enhanced Norton Management integration.
- Quick Scan should do a better job of detecting the idle state of a system before running.
- Corrected several Browser/Toolbar crashes when using IE, Chrome and Firefox. (Filling forms or Credit cards on some sites was crashing and is now corrected in addition to other reported crashes.)
- Corrected an issue with Settings UI launch to increase performance
- Corrected a Reputation Scan failure
- Updated Firefox support to include version 8
- NCO carries a new feature called Secure Resume
