The availability of Norton 360 version 3.0, the industry’s leading all-in-one security solution for protecting your PC and all your online activities has been announced by Symantec Corporation. The latest version of Norton 360 includes security and performance enhancements that keep your PC protected and running at peak performance, and increased online backup flexibility for safeguarding your most important files. With the full-featured version of the new Web site ratings service, Norton Safe Web, Norton 360 now further extends protection to online activities.

Norton 360 boasts the ultra-light and fast performance that is the hallmark of the Norton 2009 product line. Norton 360 version 3.0 has an average install of approximately one minute and uses less than 10MB of memory. Resulting in intelligent scanning and the industry’s most frequent protection updates, the latest version includes all of the performance and security enhancements of Norton Internet Security 2009, such as Norton Insight and pulse updates.

Norton 360 now includes a Web site rating service designed to extend protection to your online experience– whether browsing, searching, shopping or interacting, called Norton Safe Web. Consumers, based on the nature of today’s threats, need a warning prior to visiting a site. In fact, nearly 60% of unsafe sites identified by Norton Safe Web are found to contain threats that can infect your PC without requiring you to download or install files. By leveraging targeted crawling, a unique Intelligent Aging Algorithm and the 20 million member Norton Community Watch, Norton Safe Web delivers the freshest, most accurate site ratings.