What is Norton AntiVirus 6.0.1 [de_DE] [en_US]?

They say if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. With no dramatic new developments in the field of computer virus creation, and the threat mostly limited to Microsoft Office macro viruses, this year’s revision of Norton Antivirus is really just a refinement of version 5 — a nip here, a tuck there, a little performance boost, a bit of interface work. Owners of version 5 may decline to shell out another $30 for these incremental improvements, but the product itself remains an effective and convenient antiviral tool.

Though version 6 is only a little faster at scanning your disks and folders for traces of viral taint, even a small speedup can be a powerful inducement to maintain good antiviral habits. The first scan of a given volume is still ponderously slow, but follow-up checks are relatively painless; rescanning a 4GB iMac hard disk takes only 30 seconds, which scarcely qualifies as an inconvenience. Dealing with removable media is still aggravating, at least during the tedious initial scan. A fully loaded Zip disk can take a full two minutes to inspect the first time round.

Symantec also refined other features. The LiveUpdate function can grab application updates as well as new virus definitions over ffie Internet. Throw in a bit of Norton Utilities integration, and you have an essentially minor update to an already pretty solid product. As long as Symantec keeps updating version 5’s virus definitions, those who already own the last version needn’t rush right out and upgrade.

Simmons, Mark. (January 2000). Norton AntiVirus 6.0. MacAddict. (pg. 67).

Download Norton AntiVirus 6.0.1 [de_DE] [en_US] for Mac

Architecture

IBM PowerPC

System Requirements

From Mac OS 8.0 up to Mac OS 9.2

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver