2012

To view details of your system activities
1
In the Norton Internet Security main window, click
Performance.
2
In the Performance window, at the top of the Events
graph, click the tab for a month to view the details.
3
In the Events graph, move the mouse pointer over
the icon or the stripe for an activity.
4
In the pop-up that appears, view the details of the
activity.
5
If the View Details option appears in the pop-up,
click View Details to view additional details in the
Security History window.
About performance alerting
Norton Internet Security monitors your system
performance. If it detects an increased usage of system
resources by any program or process, it notifies you
with performance alerts. Performance alerting works
only when the Performance Monitoring option and
Performance Alerting option are turned on.
Performance alerting notifies you with information
about the program name and resources that the
program uses excessively. The Details & Settings link
in the performance notification alert lets you view
additional details about the resource consumption by
the program. The File Insight window opens and
displays the details of the file, the origin of the file, and
the complete resource usage list of the program. From
the FileInsight window, you can choose to exclude the
program from being monitored. You can use the
Settings option in the File Insight window to turn off
the Performance Alerting option.
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Performance alerts are not displayed when your
computer is idle or in Silent Mode.
For each system resource, such as CPU, memory, and
hard disk, there is a resource consumption threshold
defined. When the resource consumption of a program
71Monitoring your system's performance
About System Insight