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Symantec ID Protection Launching Monday
Chris Crum
Staff Writer
2006-10-06
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Symantec's new identity-protection solution, Norton Confidential, will begin shipping Monday.
The software is supposed to warn users when they enter a phishing site, so they do not give up sensitive information. According to Robert McMillan of IDG News Service,The product will be of particular interest to people who have already been the targets of identity theft, says Chris Swenson, director of software industry analysis with the NPD Group. "If an identity thief captures their personal information while they're shopping online, or enters their PC because they don't have a firewall, this limits that type of abuse," he says. "What it doesn't protect the customer from is the bank or the university whose server gets compromised."
A subset of Norton Confidential has been shipping in Symantec's Norton Internet Security 2007 product, and it will be built into the upcoming Norton 360 security suite. A year-long subscription to Norton Confidential is listed at $50 , but Symantec's site is offering it for $35.
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Chris Crum is a staff writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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