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Norton AntiVirus 10.1 for Mac.


Symantec Corp. have announced its new Norton AntiVirus A popular antivirus program from Symantec. The AntiVirus function is available as a separate product for home and business users or as part of various packages that contain other utilities such as Norton SystemWorks and Norton Internet Security. See Norton Utilities.  10.1. for Macintosh. The new release offers new features as well as compatibility with Mac OS X v 10.4 'Tiger.' Symantec expects the software to be widely available in May.

New features in this release include the Global Threat Assessment Dashboard (1) See Mac Dashboard.

(2) A software-based control panel for one or more applications, network devices or industrial machines. Dashboards display simulated gauges and dials that look somewhat like an automobile dashboard.
, a Dashboard widget Pronounced "wih-jit," for decades, the term has been a popular word for a generic "thing" when there is no real name for it. It is often used to describe examples of made-up products along with other fictitious names; for example, "10 widgets, 5 frabbits and 2 dingits.  for Tiger which provides information on local virus protection and an overview of global threats. Users can connect to Symantec's Security Response servers to download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer.  the most recent virus threat info.

New contextual menu support lets users scan files and directories by fight-clicking or control-clicking particular files and directories. Also new custom SafeZones let users specify a particular area of their driver, specific volumes or files, to be routinely scanned for threats.

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Title Annotation:Virus Notes
Publication:Database and Network Journal
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jun 1, 2005
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