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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
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Click Apply, and then click OK.
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In the Settings window, click Close.
Turn off or turn on Network Cost Awareness
You can set up policies to restrict the Internet usage of Norton. If you do not want to restrict
the Internet usage of your Norton product, you can turn off Network Cost Awareness.
If you feel that Norton uses too much network bandwidth, you can turn on Network Cost
Awareness. Then, you can set up policies to restrict the Internet usage of Norton. The Norton
product connects to the Internet based on the policy that you set up in the Network Cost
Awareness settings window. By default, Network Cost Awareness is turned on.
Turn off or turn on Network Cost Awareness
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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, click Settings.
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In the Settings window, click Firewall.
If you have Norton AntiVirus, click Network.
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On the General Settings tab, in the Network Cost Awareness row, move the On/Off
switch to Off or On.
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In the Settings window, click Apply, and then click Close.
Learn more about Wi-Fi Security
Wi-Fi Security feature protects you from MITM attacks, SSL strip attacks, content tampering
attacks, ARP spoofing attacks, and DNS spoofing attacks.
Public Wi-Fi connections are vulnerable to man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. MITM attack is
a setup where an attacker places himself between you and the Wi-Fi provider. You might think
that you are connected to your trusted Wi-Fi provider but you would be connecting to a malicious
tool which is recording all your keystrokes and passwords.
What if Norton identifies a network you trust as an MITM attack.
If you think Norton identifies a known trusted network as an MITM attack, you can add the
network to trusted networks list. Norton notifies you when it identifies MITM attack like behavior.
If you click Trust in the alert, you will not get a notification the next time you access the network.
If you accidentally clicked Disconnect, you can add it back to trusted networks using Security
History. To trust a network Norton blocked earlier.
64Keep secure on the Internet
Turn off or turn on Network Cost Awareness