Symantec 10067161 - 10PK NORTON ANTIVIRUS, Product Manual

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technique to scan your computer. It scans all of the
files on your computer against the signatures that it
obtained during definition updates. When you use the
Standard Trust or High Trust profile, Norton AntiVirus
follows the Whitelist technique to scan the files based
on their confidence level. This way, Norton AntiVirus
significantly reduces the time that is required to scan
your computer completely for security threats.
The Whitelist technique that Norton Insight uses also
helps in heuristic detection of suspicious applications.
Normally, the execution behavior of well-known
applications appears identical to the execution behavior
of unknown applications. Such behavior results in false
identification of good applications as suspicious, and
therefore, necessitates security applications to
maintain a low heuristic detection threshold. However,
keeping a low detection threshold does not provide a
complete heuristic protection against malicious
applications. Norton AntiVirus uses the Whitelist
technique that helps maintain a high heuristic
detection threshold. It excludes well-known
applications from heuristic detection to prevent false
detection of well-known applications and to ensure a
high detection rate of malicious applications.
Viewing the files using Norton Insight
Norton Insight provides information about the Files of
Interest that are available on your computer. Norton
AntiVirus lets you view specific categories of files based
on the option that you select in the Norton Insight -
Application Ratings window.
The drop-down list that is available in the Norton
Insight - Application Ratings window provides you
the following options:
Lists the processes that run
on your computer at that
point in time when you
selected this option All Running Processes
Monitoring your system's performance
About System Insight
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