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Table Of Contents
- Norton™ Internet Security
- Contents
- 1. Welcome to Norton
- 2. Download and install Norton
- 3. Understand and respond to threats
- 4. Manage your security
- 5. Scan your computer
- Run Norton scans to check for threats on your PC
- Create your own custom Norton scans
- Schedule Norton scans
- Customize Real Time Protection settings
- View real-time threats detected by Norton SONAR
- Exclude files and folders from Norton Auto-Protect, SONAR, and Download Intelligence scans
- Exclude files with low-risk signatures from Norton scans
- Clear file IDs excluded during scans
- Turn on or turn off automatic tasks
- Run custom tasks
- Schedule security and performance scans
- Configure Data Protector to block malicious processes affecting your PC
- Set Norton to remove scripts that can be exploited in phishing attempts
- Learn more about Norton Script Control
- 6. Keep secure on the Internet
- Turn Norton Firewall on or off
- Customize Program Rules to change access settings for programs
- Change the order of firewall rules
- Turn off a Traffic rule temporarily
- Allow Internet access for a blocked program
- Turn Firewall Block Notification off
- Turn Browser Protection on
- Learn more about Intrusion Prevention exclusion list
- Set Norton to protect you from exploits, cybercriminals, and zero-day attacks
- Set Norton to monitor applications and block malicious websites from accessing your computer
- Turn off or turn on AutoBlock
- Unblock computers that are blocked by Norton AutoBlock
- Add a device to Device Trust
- Turn off or turn on Download Intelligence
- Turn off or turn on spam filtering
- Define the Internet usage for Norton
- Turn off or turn on Network Cost Awareness
- Learn more about Wi-Fi Security
- Protect your banking information using Norton Safe Web
- 7. Secure your sensitive data
- Add or install the Norton browser extensions to your browser
- Turn off or turn on Norton Safe Web
- Securely search and browse the web using Norton Safe Search
- Scam Insight
- Antiphishing
- Access Norton Password Manager
- Turn on or turn off Norton Password Manager
- Create Norton Password Manager cloud vault
- Delete your Norton Password Manager vault
- Export your Norton Password Manager data
- Import your Norton Password Manager data
- Enable or disable the Norton Security toolbar
- 8. Keep your PC tuned up
- 9. Customize settings
- 10. Find additional solutions
Uncheck the Tasks check box to uncheck all the features at once.
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Click Apply, and then click Close.
Run custom tasks
Norton automatically checks your system and chooses the best settings to keep your system
secure. However, you can run some specific tasks. You can choose the specific tasks that
you want to run by using the options available in the Custom Tasks window.
You can choose your own combination of tasks for a one-time scan. You can run LiveUpdate,
back up your data, clear browsing history, free disk space by cleaning up disk clutter, and
optimize your disks.
Run custom tasks
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Start Norton.
If you see the My Norton window, next to Device Security, click Open.
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In the Norton main window, double-click Security, and then click Scans.
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In the Scans window, under Scans and Tasks, click Custom Task, and then click Go.
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In the Custom Tasks window, check the tasks that you want to run.
To select all the tasks, check Tasks.
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Click Go.
Schedule security and performance scans
Use the Task Scheduling settings to have Norton examine your system automatically for
security and performance issues. You can specify when and how often Norton needs to perform
those examinations.
You have the following options for scheduling security and performance scans:
Examine your PC for security and performance
issues whenever your PC is idle.
This setting provides the maximum protection.
Automatic (Recommended)
Examine your PC one or more times each week for
security and performance issues.
You can pick the days of the week and the time of
day on which the scan performs.
Weekly
38Scan your computer
Run custom tasks