Norton Download Insight

Norton Download Insight provides the reputation information of any executable file that you download using the Internet Explorer 6 or Firefox 3.0 browsers or later. Download Insight supports only downloads using hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP/HTTPS). The reputation details that Download Insight provides indicate whether the downloaded file is safe to install.You can use this details to decide whether you want to Install the executable file.

Norton Download Insight uses Symantec Quorum Backend Intelligence Technology. The following are the Reputation levels of a downloaded file:

• Safe
• Unsafe
• Unknown

Program processing

Download Insight processes only the following file types:

• .exe
• .dll
• .sys
• .msi

Incompatiblities with other browsers.

Norton Download Insight is not compatible with the other browsers. In the Beta period of Norton 2010 products, A Symantec employee announced that they will expand it to more browsers in the feature.

Other New feature of Norton 2010

• Norton File Insight
• SONAR 2

References

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