Making sure that your computer is kept secure and operating smoothly requires you to be continually on the lookout for different threats that could slow performance or leave your systems susceptible to external attacks. There’s also other non-external threats to also deal with. As an increasing amount of information and media is stored in your computer’s hard drive, you need to pay a lot of attention to system maintenance. Norton Antivirus and Norton Internet Security are two popular products that deal with such threats.
Common Features
Both these software packages offer comprehensive protection against identity theft, spyware, Trojan horses and numerous of other online threats. They also offer parental control to prevent children from viewing inappropriate websites. Each of these applications will help protect your web browser from different malicious sites and other unwanted cookies.
Internet Clutter Removal
When surfing the web, your computer picks and stores temporary data and other images that are specifically designed to increase performance by keeping copies of those files on your computer. In this way, the web browser won’t need to go out there are look for the image if its needed several times. However, this process leaves additional data stored on your hard drive, and it can slow overall performance. Norton Antivirus removes all these extra files to ensure that your computer achieves maximum performance, but Norton Internet Security doesn’t.
Disk Clutter
Internet browsing isn’t the only thing that stores temporary files. Your computer’s operating system creates temporary files needed to restore images and other data which may get lost if your browsing application closes unexpectedly. Norton Antivirus removes this extra to enhance system performance, Internet Security Doesn’t.
Start-up Times
Many a times, when software loads onto a computer system, the installation programs initiates a small program for the start-up routine so that the main programs starts faster. This, however slows system booting and uses up more resources, which eventually slows the system. For programs that are less frequently used, the compromise can be worth it. For less-often used programs, Norton Antivirus can stop start-up programs for launching and running, which in-turn speeds booting times and improves overall system performance. Norton Internet Security doesn’t however use these features.
System Fixes
Norton Antivirus has a variety of features which monitor system settings, performance and automatically fixes any problems. This automated maintenance ensures that the system runs efficiently and smoothly with you having to do anything. Norton Internet Security doesn’t however have this feature.
Backup and Restore
Norton Antivirus has certain backup and restore features that aren’t available on Norton Internet Security. Such features back the hard drive automatically, and on a regular basis, making sure that your data remains secure in the event that something unexpected happens to your hard drive.