HTTP:: Symantec Prepares Hacker Hunting Party with New Launch
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On September 9th, this year, Symantec will be launching its new Internet Security Suite with some innovative, new protection and reporting features. Attacked users will have the option to report real-time attacks and/or attackers to proper authorities, while also being weekly informed of the FBI's top 10 most wanted hackers list. Users installing the new Symantec Internet Security Suite will be able to opt in a program called Norton Community Watch that will actively collect attack information. This soft will behave differently from any other standard anti-virus, being more engaged in the user's actions, warning them of real-time attacks and displaying detailed statistics about the problem disrupting the user's activity. For a long time now, anti-viruses have been quietly doing all the dirty work for us, but this change in Symantec's user-interactivity policy puts an emphasis on stopping future attacks and reporting the problems to proper authorities, so they can study a!
nd stop them. Another new feature will include the alerting and reporting technology dubbed "Autopsy" that will quarantine any new downloaded files and display a warning of their origin, if coming from a previous attack or untrusted location. These new tools from Symantec will enable the community to ac...
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The protection of personal user data has been extended and enhanced. For instance, Internet Security Center automatically prevents inadvertent users from accessing known phishing web sites, and blocks keylogger programs, which are designed to steal passwords and access codes.
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