Norton heeft een bètaversie vrijgegeven van Norton Antivirus 2011. De nieuwste versie moet beter zijn in het verwijderen van 'scareware' en kan ook vanaf een bootable cd, dvd of usb-stick worden gedraaid. Lees voor meer informatie deze nieuwspost.
Om de bèta te kunnen gebruiken is een licentiecode nodig die na registratie kan worden verkregen. De bèta's zijn tot 27 september 2010 te gebruiken. Norton begeleidt de release met de volgende informatie:
Norton 2011 is Fast and Effective
Furthering Symantec’s commitment to deliver the fastest and lightest security available, the 2011 Norton betas are being developed to improve or maintain key performance benchmarks in installation times, scan times, and memory usage. In addition, the products will include System Insight 2.0 which goes beyond security and alerts users when applications are significantly impacting their system resources.
At the heart of this Norton release is the industry leading reputation-based security technology. This technology, only available in Norton security products, has been proven to attain unmatched detection of new malware far beyond what is possible with traditional security technologies. New to 2011, Download Insight 2.0 increases the breadth of the product’s reputation protection by applying it to virtually every download regardless of the client (browser, email, IM). This helps ensure that users are protected from harmful downloads no matter how the file is delivered to their machine. Additionally, Norton 2011 uses the reputation information to report on the “trustworthiness” of files on a system and help users understand if their download behavior is more or less risky versus the 53 million Norton Community Watch members today.