Norton Antivirus Review 2018: How Good And How Bad Is Norton Security?

The Internet world is growing at a fast pace and so the threat of cybercrime. In the technological era where stealing any information of anyone is as easy as a piece of cake, it has become essential to safeguard one’s digital property.

One of the easiest and effective ways of protecting our system from viruses and hackers is Antivirus.

Though there are many antivirus programs available in the market, but Norton has its own class.

One of the oldest and trusted antiviruses, Norton is excellently protecting users system from viruses, spams, malware etc. It is also backed up the best Norton Antivirus Help Centre.

Some extra features which Norton is Missing

There is no second thought about the performance of Norton. With its superlative quality services, it has captured a vast market and made its own record which is yet to be covered by its competitors.

With its most expensive antivirus program, Norton Security Premium, Norton has set another milestone by offering software backup functionality, 25 GB online storage, and a constant reminder by Norton program to integrate the free password manager by Norton into your system.

Instead of so many superlative benefits by Norton, there are some functionality in which this highly accepted antivirus line is lacking behind.

Functionalities such as shredding of files, secure web browser and encryption of the file, etc. are missing from Norton which can be easily found in other antivirus suites.

Costs of Various Levels of Norton Antivirus

Below is given a table on the costs of various levels of the Norton antivirus. Each level is compact with its own unique features. With every level, Norton gives an additional value to its users.

The primary level starts with NortonAntivirus Basic. The most amazing features of this entry-level antivirus are protection from phishing, spam along with the latest ransomware exploits.

	Norton Antivirus Basic	Norton Security Standard	Norton Security Deluxe	Norton Security Premium
Price	$50	$70	$90	$110
Windows Support	XP to 10	XP to 10	XP to 10	XP to 10
Other Platforms	None	Android, Mac, iOS	Android, Mac, iOS	Android, Mac, iOS
Tech Support	None	24x7	24x7	24x7
Anti-Phishing	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Anti-Spam	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Extensions for Browser	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Password Manager	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Two Way Firewall	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Web Management Portal	No	No	Yes	Yes
Backup Software	No	No	No	Yes
Online Storage	No	No	No	Yes
Parental Controls	No	No	No	Yes
Rescue Disk	Free Download	Free Download	Free Download	Free Download
System Optimizer	Freemium Download	Freemium Download	Freemium Download	Freemium Download

Now You Can Disable Google’s Lately Introduced Proposed – Gmail Smart Respond

Google, a technology giant has come up with various innovative technologies to make our work easy and smooth.

One such innovative gift by Google is the Gmail smart reply. It was launched with the motto to help Gmail users to draft their email in a lesser time.

Since from its inception, this Artificial Intelligence-based “Smart Composed” features is embraced by many Gmail users. There are also many users who do not like Gmail to prompt reply for their emails.

Why People are Liking and Disliking Gmail Smart Reply?

There are various reasons for which Gmail support users are embracing this new way of writing emails. One of the foremost reasons is that it saves your time by just make you aware to cut back the repetitive writing. Along with that it also helps in reducing the chance of spelling and grammatical errors.

But there are some Gmail users who don’t like this feature. According to a report, there are two major reasons why people criticizing Smart Reply.

The first reason to criticize the email is that it awfully saves a lot of time by predicting extremely short answers. These answers are mostly of 3 to 4 words and Gmail has built it on the bases of phrases.

It is because of this reason, people who wish to write long emails and to explain themselves, for them, it’s quite irritating, to sum up, their emails in few words. So in another way, it does not really save the time of its users.

The second and the most important reason is privacy. In one its blog Google said that to compose a smart reply, Google bots have to scan billions of emails and composed replies which are based on the phrases.

It means that the automated replies by Gmail are developed after algorithm of Google scan the whole email from subject to email body and the generate replies accordingly.

Option To Turn Off Gmail Smart Reply

With lots of buzz going around the globe and with a bundle of mix reactions towards the Gmail smart reply feature, Google has decided to give its users to turn off the smart reply features.

In April 2018, Google has updated the new interface of Gmail. It enhanced inbox features and with that has introduced Smart Reply features for desktop version also.

In the mobile version, there has always been the facility to turn off Smart Reply feature. In a phone, you can opt out of this email by going to Settings then to general and then remove the checkmark from “Show suggested replies when available”.

But for the desktop version of Gmail smart reply, no such option was available.

But until now!

Recently Google has rolled out its smart reply turn off feature for desktop version also. Here’s how you can turn off Smart Reply on desktop Gmail:

1. Login into your Gmail account on the suitable browser.

2. Go to setting

3. Start scrolling down to the Smart Reply setting.

4. Switch to Smart Reply Off.

5. Scroll down more and select “Save Changes”.

Problem solved! The smart reply feature is off with the changes done.

Just so you know: You can also turn off Gmail Support smart composed feature there. It is the feature which analyzes your text and display suggestions on the basis of your writing.

Go to Writing suggestions off option in the same setting and turn off the feature as well.