Solid, cross-platform security suite with low price per unit

I have received "Norton Security" for 10 devices as a product key card. Disk and the like so were not there and I can therefore not comment on their quality. Since you basically better equal loads the last current full version of the network also in the version "with medium", such a classification is probably obsolete anyway. Nevertheless the sake of completeness I would go into it.
Also for completeness: "Norton Security" is the new name of "Norton Internet Security". Are you previously been customer of this product and were satisfied, so you do not go far wrong if you continue to opt for "Norton".
Now I have already tested a number of antivirus programs on Vine and through other channels (among others simply about trial versions of the manufacturer-side) and have to say that the major manufacturers such as Bitdefender (eg including F-Secure), G Data, Norton, McAfee / Intel Security, Kaspersky, Avira and ... and ... and ... barely give a little when it comes to protection. Beginning of 2014. While there were times, for example in a relevant journal memorable comment "The Norton suite lets just 0.21 percent more than the current virus by winner. That does not sound dramatic, but when it comes to security COMPUTERBILD always sets very strict scales on. Therefore COMPUTERBILD no longer grabs since issue 4/2014 the Norton software on magazine CD / DVD ", but I would strongly advise against it to pull off such a conclusion any clues to the actual protective effect. Norton is one of many "good" products and if you are so far fared well with the use, then you can stay there as well - generally should Consumer anyway rather operability serve as a criterion as the sometimes very cryptic reports in relation to the protection. To accept purely by these reviews, so Kaspersky and Bitdefender various clones would probably dominate the market completely. But they do not.
Consumer important: Windows Defender or the former "Microsoft Security Essentials" alone should not be trusted. Here, the protective effect is doubtful or at the bottom. It should be procured so at least one of (safety like "better-known") relevant antivirus products. In addition, you can also look around in the area of ​​anti-malware programs ... eg Malwarebytes. Here you can sometimes even increase the protective effect - but at the cost of the computer performance and the compatibility (sometimes can not tools together like Malwarebytes and virus scanners).
But where is ever find such a real differentiator in terms of anti-virus software? Why Norten buy - or not?
Now, Norton convinced eg on test sites like [...] certainly by very good protection against zero-day attacks, malware from sites widespread malicious programs, etc., etc. -. Here Norton can definitely score points and is (at least some tests after) above the industry average (100% detection takes 94% - but these figures are always just smoke and mirrors, if you ask me). Above the industry average are, however, most "better" products, so that it is possible to derive anything here. Very well derive some can be but the fact that the operation at Norton has always been very good; a criterion that I would in any case very high rate. The problem is that Norton always (so also in the test of the 2014er version of AV-Test) "slower" or performance-heavy was than other products; However, this was never so strong that you really a "no-go" could make it criterion. In this respect: Even no delineation, but rather a matter of taste. Also probably is more a matter of taste whether you can handle "problem" with a right-handed at Norton: Norton had previously and has even today a lower tolerance compared with "unknown" programs. This means that Norton compared to competitors "often" in recognition tests "false positives" ejects - so wrongly classifies and blocks programs as potential malware. I think it's rather good than bad - but I also work a lot with Malwarebytes and already warning software where smells of malware even remotely. Again, a matter of taste.
In concrete comparison with competitors Norton offers in the 2015er version with up to 10 devices, and (in the "Backup" version) 25 GB free online storage available for a price of just under 50 (up to 70 (!) - The price is at the moment strongly discounted) Euro pretty much. Kaspersky takes eg 40 euros for 2 PCs; Avira takes the moment discounted almost 22 euros per PC. In this respect, the price per protected machine with Norton is relatively low compared to the competition - and web space with an automatic "backup" or synchronization also has some merit and usually costs also specially. Whether you want but send data to the cloud, which was once an open question - indeed Norton is there no better or worse than any other cloud hosting.
So here we have a pretty nice overall package which still do so by the usual "x App / x PCs." - Would like to take some distance model and honored that one good and happy times can call his own a dozen devices today, all want to be protected. That one not take each 20 Euro in the hand want (even to a year!) Is self-explanatory. As such, it is already been a good marketing decision to place here in the type shown with rates of 5-7 euro / unit. Especially antivirus apps (Norton Security protects smartphones, too) as McAfee Mobile Security in its premium version also quite able to beat with just under 30 Euros to the times when a device fuse with to be in the game.
Overall, one can from the merger of various Norton products (360, Internet Security, etc. pp.) Created "Norton Security" definitely regarded as a good alternative among many. I personally like the relatively intuitive way how to control or adjust Norton products - something that bothers me, for example, from time to time at McAfee because there users are sometimes confronted with the features that they do not expect and / or want and / or does not understand (I remember as a very nice entry of a Licensees in the "Mobile Security", which referred to the fact that the app pictures have made of her - that was indeed the case, because makes the app from a certain number of incorrect entries images from alleged "hacker" who wants the supposedly "stolen" phone just crack). In Norton attributable not completely, but the complexity is very limited and the protective effect is always guaranteed in a certain sense also because of cross-platform very consistent settings and appearance. Making false entries on deck x because you "do not with the version of the app knows" are unlikely. For me, again a very important criterion for buying a security suite.
In conclusion, I rate "Norton Security" with benevolent 4 stars, offering a upward trend as soon as I once really could see in one place the protective action in live operation, which me as McAfee or Kaspersky (I also use) not have warned. I am such a scenario by the way so far occurred only once: and at this point then none of the antivirus software suites had warned, but Malwarebytes, the respect of a rather dodgy installer called Open Candy which not many anti-virus vendors still. is considered malware because it to install a not explicitly FORCES, but only enticed adware.