Norton Security Premium for 3 Devices

The best solution for families.

Norton is one of the slickest, least intrusive and most accessible suites on the market now. It does a lot while asking very little.

That’s true of a number of suites now, but what puts Norton over the top is its elegant, simple interface, its rich feature set that includes online backup, and what is the industry’s best parental control solution.

The subscription for Security Premium includes a full sub to Norton Family Premium, a cloud-based parental control system with ] outstanding tools for managing and monitoring kids’ online activities. It generates reports, shows snippets of videos they’re watching, lets you limit their access times or sites they can visit, and much more. All the rules are managed through a portal site, so there’s no need to set up anything on their PCs.

A lot of beginners don’t do proper backups or subscribe to backup services, but this makes it easy to have automated backup to a secure cloud server, which is a key tool for mitigating ransomware attacks. Its biggest problem is that the 25GB limit is far too stingy.

There are a lot of other things going on the background as well. It managed a perfect score in AV-Test’s benchmarks and had very little impact on performance. There’s a ton of hidden features: banking protection, website filtering, identity protection, password management, system tuning and cleaning, and more. It does all this automatically, too. It also has a neat cloud-based management system that lets you remotely monitor and manage multiple PCs attached to the licence.

Like many suites now, the Norton Security licence also applies to mobile devices and Macs as well. Its mobile parental controls are particularly good on Android, where all the rules that you configure can still be applied. Passwords stored on desktops will be taken to your mobile as well. Unfortunately, these aren’t available on iOS.

We love the elegance of the solution overall. Setting it up requires very little expenditure of effort, and even the online backup system intelligently figures out what to back up for you and requires virtually no setup. There are useful cloud management tools for multiple devices, and great mobile support as well.

“What puts Norton over the top is its elegant, simple interface, its rich feature set that includes online backup, and what is the industry’s best parental control solution.”