· NEW! Provides unprecedented and unmatched threat detection — Adds an additional layer of protection to detect viruses, Trojans, spyware, and other threats. Norton reputation service technology scrutinizes different attributes of files and applications in real-time to determine if they are safe.
· NEW! Warns you of dangerous downloads — Proactively protects you by analyzing newly downloaded files and applications for threats before you install or run them on your PC.
· NEW! Helps you improve and maintain PC and application performance —Identifies applications that may be impacting your PC’s performance, making it easier to keep your computer running at its best.

Why Choose Norton 360™:
* NEW! Provides unprecedented and unmatched threat detection — Adds an additional layer of protection to detect viruses, Trojans, spyware, and other threats. Norton™ reputation service technology scrutinizes different attributes of files and applications in real-time to determine if they are safe.
* NEW! Warns you of dangerous downloads — Proactively protects you by analyzing newly downloaded files and applications for threats before you install or run them on your PC.
* NEW! Helps you improve and maintain PC and application performance —Identifies applications that may be impacting your PC’s performance, making it easier to keep your computer running at its best.
* NEW! Lets you access backed up files over the Web — Allows you to retrieve and restore files that you backed up online anytime, anywhere, from virtually any computer with Internet access.
* IMPROVED! Scans only files at risk for shorter, faster scans — Uses our industry-leading online intelligence system to identify files at risk and quickly and accurately scans only those files for improved scanning performance.
* IMPROVED! Makes online shopping safer — Warns you of unsafe websites right in your search results before you provide any personal information to a potentially dangerous site.
* IMPROVED! Protects your identity when you buy, bank or browse online —Validates authentic sites and identifies fraudulent sites to protect you from “phishing.”
* IMPROVED! Keeps spam out of your mailbox —Blocks unwanted and possibly dangerous emails from your inbox.
* IMPROVED! Offers secure login to web sites — Automatically stores your logins and passwords so you can sign into sites with a single click. Blocks keystroke loggers and other spyware that can steal your information.
* IMPROVED! Secures your browser from attacks — Prevents cybercriminals from using security holes in your web browser to load dangerous software onto your PC.
* IMPROVED! Protects your important files from loss — Automatically backs up files either locally (to disc or other storage device) or online when your PC is idle. Includes 2 GB of secured online storage (with option to purchase more).*
* IMPROVED! Reduces PC start-up time — Gets your PC up and running faster by allowing you to prioritize and stagger your start-up applications.
* Protects your PC, online activities and your identity – Delivers industry-leading, all-in-one protection against identity theft, online fraud, phishing, viruses, Trojans, bots, rootkits, spyware, and the latest cyber-threats.
* Defends against digital dangers without sacrificing performance — Guards your PC against all kinds of cyber-threats without slowing down your computer or eating up system resources.
* Prevents botnets from taking control of your PC — Blocks access to your private information. Stops hackers from using your PC to launch attacks on other PCs.
* Delivers up to the minute virus protection — Provides automatic updates every 5 to 15 minutes to help ensure you’re protected from new threats. Updates happen quietly in the background so you get continuous protection without sacrificing performance.
* Defends your wireless network from intruders — Prevents unauthorized users from stealing your bandwidth and accessing your files. Warns you when you connect to an unsecured wireless network.
* Won’t get in your way — Automatically postpones non-urgent tasks and activities if you’re using your PC to watch TV or movies or to play games.
* Helps make your PC run like new again — Deletes unnecessary files, defrags your hard drive, fixes common problems, and tunes up your PC to keep it running at peak performance.
* Includes FREE 24/7 technical support— We’ve got your back. Get free help via email, live chat, or over the phone with a single click.

As cybercriminals and malicious downloads become more advanced, so do we. We’re pleased to offer a first glimpse of our ultimate all-in-one protection with the Beta of Norton 360 version 6.0.

The latest upgrade of Norton 360 offers:

Our best protection and performance ever
Improved local or secure online backups
#1 ranked threat and virus removal*

Below is a list of known issues with Norton 360v6 Public Beta build 113. We're already aware of these issues and will have them resolved prior to final release:

General - on 64-bit systems, when installing N360 over a previous version, clicking on desktop icon displays error message "Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file."

Backup - Animation for File Transfer does not begin when running backup

Uninstall - Windows Firewall is not enabled after uninstall reboot

Below is a list of known issues with Norton 360v6 Public Beta build 117. We're already aware of these issues and will have them resolved prior to final release:

Settings UI - Settings page has horizontal scroll bar

Backup - Progress bar does not reach 100%, even though backup is finished

Backup Activation - Online Backup Activation page has incorrect title

Norton Security with Backup (formerly Norton 360) delivers the best of Norton for your family of devices and helps protect your PCs and Macs and even backs up the personal files, photos, videos and other memories on your PC. With Norton Security with Backup, you can be safe online with the many ways you connect. Norton Security with Backup is the one solution to help keep the devices underneath your roof safe. Built on a legacy of world-class security products, including Norton Antivirus, Norton Internet Security and Norton 360, the new offering, Norton Security with Backup, includes an array of ‘defense-in-depth’ technologies that have protected our customers for years.

These include Network-based defense technologies such as the Firewall and Intrusion Protection System (IPS), File-based defense technologies (traditional core anti-virus capabilities), Reputation-based defense technologies (Insight) and Behavioral-based technologies (SONAR).

Many of these protection technologies have been enhanced and or completely rebuilt from the ground up.

Norton Security with Backup New look and feel
The most obvious change is the new look and feel of the user interface. Delivering a clean and modern look, the Windows software sets the tone for our latest security offering across multiple operating systems.

Next Generation anti-malware engine
A new real-time malware detection engine fundamentally changes the way traditional file-based antivirus protection is delivered to our customers:

Norton Security with Backup Key features:
• All of Symantec’s intelligence – over 4.3 trillion relationships – now powers all of Norton’s real-time protection. Every time you touch a file, Norton evaluates it against thousands of criteria to determine if it is an attack.
• By relying on Norton’s cloud, the on-disk definitions are now 80% smaller. It’s our quickest and lightest Norton yet.
• Real-time definition updates of propagating malware. Historically as new viruses are discovered, new antivirus definitions have to be pushed out to customer machines. This process can take anywhere from a few minutes to several hours With this new engine, information about new threats is made instantly available via Norton’s cloud infrastructure. This greatly improves the speed at which users are of protection against new emerging threats.

Included in this Norton Security with Backup Beta are many features that deliver security smarter, faster and easier.

Norton Security with Backup new features:
• Intelligent boot-time protection. We know you need to get to work (or play) quickly when you boot your PC. But those first few moments after you turn on your PC are crucial: that’s when your system is most vulnerable and malicious threats can attack. New features in this Norton Security with Backup Beta release monitor system changes that can lead to boot-time infection. Detection of such changes triggers Norton to automatically enter aggressive boot-time protection mode.
• New aggressive threat detection heuristics. For the last few years, Norton Power Eraser has included a set of very aggressive threat detection heuristics (or “rules of thumb”) that identify new threats. Our newest offering includes heuristics that enable it to identify even the most resilient threats without risking a higher rate of false positives.
• Automatic aggressive botnet scanning triggers. A new set of network monitoring capabilities that trigger on suspicious outbound connection activity (for example: a botnet “command and control” center) will automatically prompt users to run Norton’s aggressive scan detection capabilities.
• Smart ping payload data-leakage protection. Ping messages, using the ICMP network protocol, allow applications to verify the status of a remote server. It’s like a computer application saying to a remote web site, “Hello, are you there?” and are referred to as “pings”. Many firewalls do not block these useful messages. But new malware variants piggy-back data onto these messages to send data to a remote server. This could include your sensitive data, perhaps your credit card data. Improvements to our Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) allow the flow of regular ping messages. But our IPS will block “non-standard” payloads that may be a malicious application trying to send out your information.
• Smart-sharing of enhanced Norton Community Watch malicious website data. We have enhanced our Norton Community Watch program to better track and share information about malicious websites. This information is used to provide earlier blocking of phishing or scam web sites before they have a chance to trick others into unknowingly providing personal data.
• Smarter plugin-less browser protection. Web browsers allow for new functions, or extensions, to be added. This allowed us to create security extensions for common web browsers. Unfortunately, this same extensibility also allows attackers easier access to deliver unwanted toolbars and redirect web traffic. To make them less prone to this, browsers increasingly restrict plug-ins and extensions. So we totally rebuilt several Norton security features in this Beta release to work outside of the traditional browser plug-in architecture. This increases the scalability of browser protection, enabling our customers to continue to use features like Norton Safe Web and Norton Web Protection without having to worry about browser plug-ins.
• Refined defenses against socially-engineered attacks. A socially engineered attack relies on the natural human tendency to trust others when information is presented in a certain way instead of relying solely on technological means to steal information. In this Beta release, many Norton protection technologies, including Safe Web, Scam Insight, Download Insight, and Anti-Phishing, have all been refined to better share information with each other. This sharing allows key attribute information about web sites (i.e., the site’s age, its popularity, its volume of malicious downloads and its prior history of collecting personally identifiable information) to determine if a site is being used as part of a new social-engineered attack scam.
• Next-generation SONAR technology. A redesigned SONAR engine detects never-before-seen threats based on the real-time behaviors of such threats. Now SONAR is even more effective against malware attacks that inject malicious threads into trusted application processes and applications that drop malicious files on the system.

Norton Security with Backup Performance Improvements:
• Performance tuned for the latest Windows 8.x updates. All Norton products are tested thoroughly with Microsoft’s ADK performance assessment user scenarios on the latest Windows 8 platforms.
• Conserving battery power on connected standbys. Norton passes the Windows 8 connected standby WHQL requirement – consuming less than 5% of battery life on a system in standby mode for 16 hours while connected to a network.
• Faster browser experience. Plug-in less browser protection means one less item to load into memory while browsing web sites. This improves the launch speed of your favorite browsers and browsing websites.
• Best-in-class real-time performance. The new Norton maintains the best-in-class performance while providing more protection. Performance is not a tradeoff option for new improved Norton.