Features
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License:
Free to try; $29.99 to buy
- Editor's Rating:
- Average User Rating:
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Downloads:
11,427
- Requirements:
Windows XP/Vista
- Limitations:
15-day trial
- Date Added:
August 08, 2007
Publisher's description of Norton AntiBot
Norton AntiBot provides advanced, real-time protection against emerging threats, including bots that are used to perpetrate identity theft and other online crimes. This powerful new security solution from Symantec detects unusual behavior on your PC and removes the malicious bots causing it. This protects your PC from unauthorized access and tampering, detects and stops attempts by hackers to take remote control of your computer, and delivers extra protection against emerging 'zero-day' threats. To help ensure that you're always protected, Norton AntiBot monitors your PC continuously to stop suspicious programs.
Version 1.0.1310 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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Editor's review of Norton AntiBot
4.0 stars
Norton AntiBot provides a simple way to actively monitor the processes running on your computer in order to quarantine or delete malware items. The program doesn't require an active scan--once protection is enabled, it is monitoring your system in real time. As a minor component in a full security suite, Norton AntiBot is a valuable tool for monitoring active processes. As a full-fledged app, however, it lacks the power and features of similar free applications that manage and monitor processes, ports, sockets, hosts, services, and more.
Unlike the bigger Norton security products, the AntiBot software installs very quickly and plays nicely with other security software you may have installed. It is unfortunate that users have to provide a valid e-mail address that gets added to a Symantec marketing list, but the e-mail address does not have to be confirmed to download the installer.
The Norton AntiBot interface is divided into three main tabs. The Status tab displays the activity of the application, including whether it is enabled, how many processes are monitored, and how many malware items are removed. The Advanced tab lists all of the processes that are monitored, allowed, or quarantined. Clicking on any of the items in the monitoring list will display useful classifications about the process on the right, such as "Window not visible," "Hidden on filesystem," or "Spawns other processes"--each of these classifications create a general safety rating for each process. The final tab, Settings, simply lets you specify your threat notifications, check for software updates, or buy the full version.
Norton AntiBot works adequately and is very easy to set up, but the features are limited when compared with other software of the same ilk, most of which is free and uses a smaller memory footprint. The inclusion of an on-demand malware scanner, or more details about Windows Services, ports, and hosts, would make it more valuable, as would the more general utility of managing processes by assigning priority. Norton AntiBot does not include its own uninstaller, but all traces were easily removed by the Windows Add/Remove Programs dialog.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 2.8 stars out of 13 votes
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Norton AntiBot 1.0.1310
"Good on XP, killed audio on Vista."
Pros: 1) Runs silently on the system tray.
2) Like all Symantic products, has a nice GUI.
3) Monitors services, processes and programs fir suspicious behavior.
4) Light on system recourses.
Cons: No problems on my XP Pro drive. Killed my audio on Vista Home premium drive. If it's not good for both, I won't be getting a license for it.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Norton AntiBot 1.0.1310
Pros: none
Cons: it damage my sound on vista
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Version: Norton AntiBot 1.0.1310
"Good! After number 0, it's number 1 stuff."
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Norton AntiBot 1.0.1310
Pros: It doesn't pop-up everytime I open something. If it doesn't pop-up for you, you probably don't have any viruses. Why do people want warnings? This is the smartest HIPS product I have ever used. Very light on resources.
Cons: It works. I don't get why people want warnings when unobtrusiveness is very convenient.
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Version: Norton AntiBot 1.0.1310
Pros: It very Good
Cons: Slowdown computer
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