Norton has introduced a beat application for Android powered Smartphone’s and planning to introduce Norton 360 App for iPhone and iPad. With Norton 360 App users can access data from Norton 360 or Norton Online Backup and also share their documents, music, photos or videos directly from their device. Norton 360 now includes the reputation-based technology launched in September 2009 with Norton Internet Security and Norton AntiVirus 2010.

Rowan Trollope, senior vice president, Consumer Products and Marketing, Symantec,Said

Consumers today expect to be able to access and share their files, photos and music anytime, from any device, and our mobile applications make that possible. They’re also interacting more on social networks, which have become a top target for cybercriminals. Norton 360’s reputation-based technology leverages the strength of millions of our community members and is proven effective in fighting the Web-based threats that attack social networks.

Norton 360 version 4.0 is now available for purchase in the U.S. through retailers and the Symantec online store at www.symantecstore.com. The free beta mobile application for the Android is available now, and beta mobile applications for the iPad and iPhone are planned to be available free of charge on the iPhone App Store and Android Market in the next few weeks.

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Symantec, which has migrated more than 300 million desktops and notebooks to Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and now Windows 7, recommends the following seven-step approach.

Step 1: Asses your environment and plan your deployment.

Discover devices across the network and capture inventory. Determine hardware readiness through reports. Prioritize applications to test and migrate. Evaluate costs and SLAs, and identify potential risks.

Step 2: Build standard Windows 7 images.

Create standard images with settings and configuration for multiple users. Include applications that are required on all computers in the base image. Create generic image.

Step 3: Prepare and verify applications.

Identify the applications supported on Windows 7. Test applications on Windows 7 and with each other to ensure compatibility in your environment. Remediate issues through policies, packaging, virtualization, or—if absolutely necessary—debugging and code changes.

Step 4: Capture user settings and personality.

  If there’s one thing that makes or breaks an OS migration, it’s the successful transfer of each computer and end users’ unique network, operating system, application, and data settings, along with other customizations. In this step, identify global settings to migrate (printer and network drive mappings, favorites, security settings, etc.); determine applications settings to migrate, including custom applications; include data to be moved or require end users to transfer; and communicate with end users about things that won’t get migrated (e.g., MP3 files).

Step 5: Assemble and automate

Now that the pieces are in place, you need to hook them together and encapsulate the templates and files into an automated job or a workflow sequence. (This ensures that when one task completes, the next is triggered automatically.) Create single process flow that includes the following steps: Deploy the image (Step 2); install prepared applications (Step 3); capture personality settings (Step 4); restore personality settings.

Step 6: Migrate systems.

Position any additional servers purchased as part of the deployment plan in Step 1. Make any required network adjustments, such as enabling multicasting. Identify test candidates. Document test cases. Create a phased pilot. Perform migration.

Step 7: Measure and report.

Post-migration reporting and analysis will enable your executive team to track the migration from a distance and help you analyze key aspects of the migration. In this step, identify the total number of migrated systems; report problems encountered during migration; provide overall migration status; verify licenses.Symantec Windows 7 Resource Center for Business Customers.

Symantec released Norton Online Backup 2.0 supporting Windows and Mac on up to five computers linked together with one central account. The new version also supports 90 days file versioning information for Windows and  ability to send file download links via E-Mails. The Norton Online Backup service is available worldwide in 24 languages.

A 30 days free trial is also available for Norton Online Backup 2.0.

Norton Online Backup version 2.0 New Features:

• Cross-platform functionality for Windows and Mac computers supports Microsoft XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Mac OS X (including Mac OS X 10.6, “Snow Leopard”);
• Users can email any backed-up file via download links sent through the redesigned Web dashboard;
• 90-day file versioning saves previous versions of backed-up files for up to 90-days, so older versions can be easily retrieved;
• Advanced search allows users to search for backed-up files by name, date, size and/or type of file;
• Open file backup stores the most current file, even if it’s open (especially important for email files);
• File purge and storage management makes it easy for users to remove previously backed-up files in order to clear up available storage space;
• Additional new features include improvements to file migration, the automatic initial setup, user settings and a more intuitive redesign of the user interface.

Pricing and Availability

Norton Online Backup version 2.0 is now available for purchase in the U.S. through select retail outlets and the Symantec online store at www.symantecstore.com. The new version of Norton Online Backup will be updated automatically for current subscribers within the coming weeks.

The suggested retail price for Norton Online Backup is US$49.99 per year, which includes 25 gigabytes (GB) of online storage to backup files from up to five computers. Additional storage space can be purchased incrementally at any time.

The beta version 4.0 of Norton 360 is now available for download. This beta test version of Norton 360 Version 4.0 is the fastest, most effective all-in-one solution we have ever offered. Norton 360 is fully compatible with Microsoft Windows 7 operating system.

Symantec has also unveiled a new powerful protection model codenamed Quorum. Which is now available in Norton 360 Beta version 4.0.  It also offers an enhanced Norton Safe Web, a very effective new anti spam engine, and our new SONAR 2 technology to stop new and unknown threats.

Norton 360 beta also include  Norton Insight family of technologies and enhanced versions of the recovery tool and Norton Identity Safe.

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Symantec has acquired Web security firm Mi5 Networks and also announced Symantec Protection Suite Small Business Edition and Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition are comprehensive solutions designed to secure firms against security risks and business interruptions, ensuring systems and critical information are readily available. The Symantec Protection Suites are scheduled to be available in summer 2009.

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Security software company Symantec has rolled out a new program called “Norton Online Family”, currently this program is available in beat. Symantec basically wants to educate parents abut their children’s online activities through Norton Online Family. Norton Online Family is basically a paternal control offers multiple levels of restriction and an emphasis on usage reporting.

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Symantec has released an updated version of Norton Internet Security for Mac OS X, the previous version was released in the year 2003. Norton Internet Security for Mac 4 comes up with Norton Antivirus 11 for Mac, Norton  Confidential and two-way firewall functionality. Norton Internet Security for Mac 4 protect your computer from virus, phishing, spyware and other security threats. Norton Internet Security for Mac4 automatically updates the list of malicious IP addresses so it provides a better protection for online threats also.

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Malware authors of Kardphisher , now changed the Trojan in such a way that it mimics the Windows XP activation interface. This new Trojan collects credit card, personal information including SSN and other information form the client computer that is being enter by the consumer. Malware authors has made significant improvements over the Trojan user interface, it looks like a real Windows XP Activation Wizard. This new malware application not allow users to close the application unless and until the users enters the credit card information, built in credit card and E-Mail validation and displaying the current product key of windows XP makes this application more legitimate.

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On November 25,2008 Symantec has released an antivirus software specially for gamers called  Norton Antivirus 2009 Gaming Edition. According to Symantec Norton Antivirus 2009 Gaming Edition is offer fastest virus protection to your PC.  Gamer mode of Norton Antivirus 2009 Gaming Edition  suspend resource-intensive activities automatically while gamers are  in-between of their games. Norton Antivirus 2009 Gaming Edition  has a gamer mode that

• Suspends alerts and notifications to avoid interrupting game play.
• Option to suspend real-time monitoring activities and updates to reduce PC and network resource usage even further.
• Automatically enabled when PC is in full-screen mode.
• Turn it on manually with a simple click on the Norton system tray icon

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On October 14, 2008 Symantec launched two new services  named as PC Checkup and PC Tune-Up. Currently both of these services are only available for Windows XP and Windows Vista. With Symantec PC Checkup and PC Tune-Up both non-Norton and Norton customers benefit with trusted, remote PC help. PC Check up service will cost $29.99 per year while PC tune-up service will cost $69.99 per year.

The service provides comprehensive PC help offerings including a Norton PC Checkup Service (available 24×7) to identify performance problems, provide a custom PC report card and identify hidden spyware and a PC Tune-up Service – akin to an “oil change for your computer” – to boost performance and stability, and make a PC feel like new.

How Both Services Will Work

Customers simply call 1-800-917-9152 to get PC help. Without the hassles of having to drop off or pick up their computer, customers get a reliable way to diagnose and repair computer problems over a secure Internet connection. While the customer is on the phone, a Norton PC expert remotely connects to the customer’s computer to perform a diagnostic check and recommended service. Once the Norton PC expert performs an initial diagnostic service, the customer is not required to wait at his or her computer while the agent fixes the PC problem. The services include:

Norton PC Checkup Service

A Norton PC expert identifies hidden spyware, viruses and performance problems and provides detailed reporting and recommendations on issues affecting your computer’s operation and security.
Price: $29.99.

Norton PC Tune-up Service

It can be frustrating for today’s busy computer user to work on a system with sub par responsiveness. A Norton PC expert fixes problems affecting your computer’s speed and stability and fine-tunes your PC so it starts and runs at optimum speed.
Price: $69.99.

Source : Symantec Launches New PC Help Service Norton Premium Services Take On Today’s PC Problems Press Release