Norton Internet Security 2010 Giveaway – Win Five One-year Licenses Worth Rs.1420 each – Winners Announced
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Norton is one of the largest Anti-virus and Internet Security Software provider of the world. They have come up with their latest tool called “Norton Internet Security 2010”
In this post, I will give you a complete review of the product which I am using on my Windows 7 Computer. Also there are 5 Licenses of Norton Internet Security 2010 valid for one PC for 1 year to be won if you participate in this giveaway.
I will review the Norton Internet Security 2010 step by step on its features, performance, effectiveness and usability from a user’s perspective.
When you install the Norton Internet Security, it may download some updates during installation.
It will ask you for the license key to start the setup. If you have purchased the physical copy in a box, the license key is printed on a yellow sticker on the CD cover. Use that key and please preserve it with you in case you need to install again for some reason.
After Installation you will see a screen like one below, which will start the Anti-virus and internet security services to protect your computer. A really nice thing about Norton Internet security is that it is fully compatible with Windows 7 / Windows Vista and Windows XP, so the interface on my Windows 7 computer came really well and it gels itself well with Windows 7 security settings etc. I used some other security software before on Windows 7 and they were not fully compatible. In that case I faced a problem that Windows 7 Action center will keep warning me that my computers Virus Protection is not adequate.
The Norton Internet Security 2010 will prompt you to create an online account and activate it. This is really helpful in case you need software support or need to contact Norton for any kind of queries or services.
The online account will list your product purchases, product expiry date and will prompt you by email if your product is going to expire, this will help you renew your product and keep your computer safe.
You can see a round yellow icon in the system tray which will be there in case you want to launch Norton Internet Security anytime.
Soon after you install and run the Norton Internet security, we recommend that you run the Live Update immediately to get the latest virus definitions.
The live update is quick and easy, just click the “Run Liveupdate” link and it will update to the latest product and virus definitions if you are connected to Internet.
I checked the settings panel to see what all features I can control as a user, here are some highlights of what i find is important:
- Compressed file scan support
- Microsoft Office Automatic Scan
- Rootkits and Stealth items scan
- Heuristic Protection
- Tracking cookies scan
- Schedule Idle time scans
- Ability to set number of threads for scan
- Ability to add exclusion for scan
- Norton Insight based cloud scanning
- Set scan performance profiles based on digital signatures
- Real time protection from Spyware
- Email Scanning
- Anti-Spam scanning
- Instant messenger scanning
- Intrusion prevention
- Network Security Map
- Smart Firewall
- Browser Protection
- Identity protection via browser plug-ins
- Anti-phishing
- Norton Safe-web support
- CPU / Memory / Performance Information – good to monitor if your PC is slow
- Idle time optimization
- Proxy settings
- Power Saving mode
- Tamper Protection for improved safety
- Silent mode settings
- Parental and Privacy controls
All in all the features of the product are very impressive and wholesome when it comes to security.
I also tested how well it scans the computer, so I ran a full system scan on my PC to see what all it detects.
The interface is very soothing and intuitive, I did not have to go through menus to run the scan, a simple click started the full scan.
It tool about 35 minutes for the full scan on my computer, this will vary from computer to computer depending on number of files and disk size that you have.
It detected 1 Virus of high risk which it successfully removed, 113 tracking cookies.
It gives you options to clear tracking cookies automatically or ask you when it finds them.
I could easily clean the tracking cookies with a click.
Norton Insight Network scan determines the new threats and their sources using Norton Community Watch. Insight Network scan uses the statistical information about the applications from the Norton Community Watch to determine the new threats and their sources.
Below is the screenshot of the performance monitoring using the Norton Internet Security 2010. It tells you what amount of CPU and memory resources are being used by the Norton processes and threads.
I have been using this product for about a week and find it really nice, effective and useful. You can purchase a copy for your computer from – Norton Official Website
Win One-year License To Norton Internet Security 2010
We are running a giveaway of 5 Licenses of Norton Internet security for our readers. To participate in the giveaway, you need to do the following:
1. Follow @technixupdate on twitter
2. Tweet the following text written inside square brackets below on twitter
[ Norton Internet Security 2010 Giveaway – Win Free Licenses (via @technixupdate ) - http://bit.ly/66Pumr ]
3. Subscribe to our free email newsletter.
4. Leave a comment on this article with a valid email id and twitter status URL of your tweet.
Note:
1. Since we have physical products in boxes and these products are only for distribution in India, we will be shipping the licenses to the addresses Inside India (India, Asia). For future giveaways, we will try our best to get the products or licenses in soft copy so that they can be sent to the readers across the world.
2. The giveaway will be open till 15th Feb. 2010. After which we will select 5 winners at random from the list of participants. We will contact them via email to get the shipping address at which the products will be shipped by us. Winners will not be liable to pay for shipping, it will be paid by us. We will be shipping only to the address in India as mentioned in the note above.
3. We will be running similar giveaway on Troublefixers.com, you are free to participate at both the websites, but if you win on both of them, only one license will be shipped for a fair giveaway.
Winners Announced
Congratulations to winners – Shiva Swaroop, V . Srinivasana, Rohit Choubey, Krishnan and Sarath. We selected the winners using the Random.org list randomizer function. We will soon send emails to the winners to collect their addresses and mail them the licenses soon.
Congratulations Winners ! Thanks to all who participated, we will keep running more giveaway like this, so if you didn’t win a license this time, stay tuned, you might be lucky one next time.
Author: Rohit KhuranaSoftware Engineer by profession. I am a part time tech blogger and believe in blogging because I enjoy writing on technology. I also write about Cars and Bikes at www.carblogindia.com. You can catch me on twitter @rohit_khurana. Get in touch with me at RohitKhurana.in.
hey here is the twitter link
http://twitter.com/raghul1989/status/8227251003
and i am already subscribed to ur feeds
Count me in Abhishek
Here is link to my tweet : http://twitter.com/tricksdaddy/status/8227445136
I’m Already a subscriber of your feeds. Now subscribed via email
hi i really need this license because i reccently bought a new PC so good protection is all i need
Thanks. Hope I win
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Regards
Rafael Capucci…
coooool……..i like norton……
i hope i win. i am from india .
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Great efforts, congratulation, I would be lucky to one from above, please include me in counting.
https://twitter.com/roshanmuskan/status/8263477137
Happy to participate in an exclusive giveaway for Indians. I will love to have a copy of this software.
Here is my tweet:http://twitter.com/hideipuser/status/8264403319
Thanks for this nice giveaway.
NIS2010 is very fast & light…it’s insight technology is amazing…cpu usage while scanning is minimum…good detection rates are there..i would love to win a Genuine license,,,,thanks
I subsctibed to the RSS feed with the same email address am commenting
Here is the twitter time line – http://twitter.com/krishnans/status/8266610628
Thanks
Thanks for nice giveaway
count me for one key
or
give me one key plz
Count me in for giveaway
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I would like to win one.Here is my twitter status
http://twitter.com/shashank_2427/status/8269229581
I really need a premium security suite for my new pc.
I have been using free antivirus all these days.
I have subscribed to your feeds.
Regards
shashank(India)
Hi i am from Chennai,India
This is probably the best software giveaway i can think of, i hope i win
Here is the twitter status url of my tweet
http://twitter.com/Ashwin_Geek/status/8274001863
Good luck everyone
Greets from Chandigarh
my status link
https://twitter.com/shivauils/status/8275834613
http://twitter.com/Kaushik_Srini/status/8275877662
I am from Chennai, India.
A really nice giveaway.
Hope I’ll win.
very useful giveaway . . i am using the trail version
Very happy to participate in this exclusive giveaway.
Here is my tweet:http://twitter.com/hideipuser/status/8264403319
Thanks.
Hi,
I hope i win one as i am a great fan of Norton and I am from one
Here is my twitter status : http://twitter.com/Rohith1991/status/8283399206
And i am also your news letter subscriber for a long Time,
Thanks
I already subscribed and follow u on tweeter.Please consider me for this giveaway. And all the best to all….This is a great giveaway.Thanks.
Tweet:http://twitter.com/aviator365/status/8287052022
Wow, giving me a chance to take this AV!
PS, all step completed ! my twitter is: http://twitter.com/rcc1990 .
all rules are done!!!
and now please include me in on the list of drawing!
My Twitter for this contest https://twitter.com/rafaelcapucci
Regards
Rafael Capucci…
Excuse me if double posted.
i thinking you had refused the other, but you just have not accepted yet!
Sorry again for the incovenience!
i creat account on twitter and can someone tel me that how can i tweet the following content which is condition of this.plz i m new.
Norton Internet Security 2010 Giveaway – Win Free Licenses (via @technixupdate ) – http://bit.ly/66Pumr ]
i complete all other conditions.
plz u can count me also.
All the Rules are Done ….
And Here is my Twitter Link : http://twitter.com/ramkrish78/status/8367347087
And i am Already a subscriber of your newsletter ,So kindly Include me in Your drawing.
Everything is done and all set!
Also been a subscriber for a VERY long time.. !
http://twitter.com/iAmjad/status/8236632075
Fingers crossed!
thanks!
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I am happy that I have won a license of the Norton Internet Security
software you have won at the Giveaway at Technix Update. I also received a confirmation email saying that i had won the giveaway.
I have already sent my mailing address to you.
But there has been no confirmation that you have received my email, and i even got an email asking for my address again.
But everytime I send an email to you (troublefixers@gmail) i receive an automated reply saying “We have received the problem submitted by you.
We will get back to you after we find an appropiate solution”.
Is there any other email id to which that i can send my address to?
Or can you confirm that you received my address?
@V.Srinivasan: We have received your mailing address – your norton antivirus will reach you very shortly.