Norton® AntiVirus® 2012 offers four layers of powerful protection to proactively stop online threats before they can infect your computer. Included with the 2012 release are the Norton Insight technologies, which checks where files came from and how long they've been around to stop new online threats. Antivirus also protects against infected websites and other browser threats.

Protect your PC AntiVirus 2012 reliably detects and removes spyware and viruses, blocks bots and worms, and locates potentially malicious rootkits. The software can start up with Windows and run in the background, working to prevent many types of threats from ever damaging your system. It protects your system right from the start with a pre-installation scan, and follows Norton's evolutionary approach to improving scan times with each year's releases.

Stay on top of new threats AntiVirus 2012 includes a one-year subscription to Norton Pulse Updates, Symantec's download service that provides new features, product updates, and threat advisories every five to fifteen minutes. This means your computer is more likely to be protected from rapidly emerging new threats.

New and additional features AntiVirus 2012 includes email and instant message scanning to protect against infected attachments. Symantec's algorithm-based SONAR 4 technology can detect emerging threats before signature-based definitions are available, and the AutoFix technology diagnoses and fixes common problems.

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