Symantec launches Norton Antivirus for Leopard
Symantec has introduced Norton AntiVirus 11 for Mac, featuring support for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. The software furnishes vulnerability protection technology, which watches the web application layer. Norton AntiVirus automatically detects and removes viruses, scans and cleans downloaded files and email attachments, and protects against software vulnerabilities. To address the growth of multi-platform PC and Mac environments, Norton AntiVirus 11 for Mac scans for both PC and Mac vulnerabilities, viruses and macro viruses.
Symantec promises performance and engine improvements to ensure better compatibility and less impact on system startup and resource usage. Product, virus definition, and vulnerability protection updates are automatic. A new Norton AntiVirus dashboard widget gives a quick summary of system protection and status. This also offers a ’snooze button’ scan, if a Mac user’s engaged in another task on their computer they can reschedule the virus scan for a more convenient time. For power users, Norton AntiVirus 11 for Mac can be accessed using the Terminal, bypassing the application completely and allowing such users to add antivirus scans and other capabilities to their own custom scripts. Norton AntiVirus 11 costs £39.99 (or nothing if you get the older version). Let’s just hope it won’t be the same resource eater as on PC.
Source: PC World
Comments(24)
Yupla, first post, first entry!
I’ll pass for Norton, Nod32 all the way..
Senseless product.
Symantec any cool? Nooooo
Norton ever been cool? Nooooo
Also I do not need WinAmp, LeopardAntiSpy or LeopardOSXManager.
M$ Office for OSX was a waste of code already.
nod32 works on mac? didn’t think so. try reading post.
I pity the mac users who unknowingly install Norton for the first and last time on Leopard!!
but Macs never get viruses!!! right?
bad news. it’s them who release the viruses in the 1st place and now they move on to OSX, they must start releasing the spies and viruses there, too.
Only fanbois living in SJ reality distortion filed think the OS is strong enough to protect them.
The grinning chimp on the Norton box represents the typical user, happy in the fact he has the very best protection at the very best price. with the smallest memory footprint and the lowest overheard of all anti virus software known to man.
O to grin like a chimp and cover my nipples with a laptop.
At least for now, we don’t need any antivirus. If you are dumb enough to give your admin id/password to install some codec that’s required by a porn site (yes, it has to meet all those criterion), then you don’t deserve to use a computer…
Don’t download/buy its a virus!
That’s right, the laughing guy on the box is laughing at the loosers, who bought…well, who actualy uses this product!
@7 bomb
great comment!
@7 bomb
hahahahahah.
@7 bomb
and cover them i must! lest s.JOBS provide a purple-nurple!
You never have to use any memory and processor-chunking virus-app on Mac OS X!
But if I get as happy as the guy on the package, I just might buy it anyway!
That’s not laptop – look closely and you’ll see he is in fact holding a bathroom tile! Not that it matters, he doesn’t seem to know the difference, which explains why he’s so happy to install Norton on it
o but macs dont get virus dont they now
Hahahhahahaha! Time for Comedy!
Norton sucks, MaC OS is for g.a.ys
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g.a.ys sucks… well they got that right
is this a joke
I might get flamed, but there’s a reason for such a product: heterogenous network environments. Think about businesses that have mac and windows workstations: Symantec can easily convince them (read decept them) that they need extra antimalware checking spots.
Norton f*cked up my Mac.
Bloody waste of time, energy, and grinning monkeys…
@14
You are absolutely right…just one thing you forgot to mention and actualy the main reason why your its true what you said:
on Mac nothing to protect from viruses, it has maybe 1/1000000 amount of software available for Windows and Linux…
So, yes, sure, if you need a secure notepad with calculator, use Mac.
@22
I think you’ll find that most anything that runs on linux will run on a mac. But hey, people who post their unfounded opinions on teh intarweb rule, right?
Besides, there’s no correlation between amount of software available to a platform and the number of viruses, now is there?
Virus probability = Amount of incompetent users + security of platform.
@23
finally a sensible comment. Seems the user here are getting younger and well u know what i mean ….
Anyway i love this site
ps. i recently got me a macbook pro but as far as norton goes i will never go near it. It was good at one time but now it IS a virus. I wish nod32 would come to osx. i rather run my system without norton for all the popup reminder, nag and so called smart functionality to be honest.