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Testing conducted by PC Magazine using Shields Up and Symantecs Security Check found that the firewall successfully stealthed all ports, hiding the computer from view.

Other features included in the product are a personal firewall, email spam filtering, and phishing protection.

With the release of the 2015 line in summer 2014, Symantec officially retired Norton Internet Security after 14 years as the chief Norton product.

It is superseded by Norton Security, a rechristened adaptation of the Norton 360 security suite.

Some retailers also distributed it on a USB flash drive.

Norton Internet Security held a 61 market share in the United States retail security suite category in the first half of 2007.

In this study, competitors, in terms of market share, included security suites from CA, Inc., Trend Micro, and Kaspersky Lab.

Symantec continued the development of the acquired technologies, now marketed under the name of Norton, with the tagline from Symantec.

Nortons crossed-arm pose, a registered U.S.

Norton product packaging.

However, his pose was later moved to the spine of the packaging, and later dropped altogether.

The upgraded product retains the same number of days left on a users subscription.

The internal version number was advanced to 15.x in the 2008 edition to match the Norton AntiVirus release of the same year.

As of the 2013 (20.x) release the product has dropped the year from its name, although it still is referenced in some places.

ZDNet found the ad blocker removed graphics that were not ads, breaking pages.

Adjusting the settings fixed the problem, however the process was complicated.

ZDNet noted the lack of information presented concerning attacks the firewall blocked.

Norton LiveUpdate downloads and installs program updates.

Parental controls are backed by a quality control team of 10 searching the web for inappropriate content.

Found content is categorized in subject matter and placed on a blacklist of about 36,000 sites.

A designed administrator can add blocked sites, however the pre-supplied blacklist cannot be viewed or edited since it is hard coded.

Another option is to block all sites, then create a whitelist of allowed sites.

Family Edition can also block transmission of specified personal information.

However, CNN noted X-rated sites are retrieved when personal information is queried by a search engine.

In PC Magazine testing, the installation took 24 minutes to complete on a 750 MHz Pentium III with 92 Internet-enabled applications.

Using the firewall, users can determine whether to accept cookies, Java applets, and ActiveX controls on a global or per-site basis.

A new feature, Intrusion Detection with AutoBlock, can detect port scans and block further intrusion attempts.

The program provides notifications for intrusion attempts, stating the severity level and providing access to threat details.

Alternatively, the firewall can put the computer in stealth, essentially hiding the system.

Users can configure the security level, affecting the number of notifications.

Norton Internet Security For Mac Mavericks