Norton Internet Security protects computers from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, botnets, rootkits, spyware, and spam. It provides a firewall to prevent uninvited connections other computers. It also identifies unsafe and dangerous websites so users avoid them. The program scans all existing files and incoming and outgoing data without interrupting the user.

This donation provides a subscription for use of the product on one computer for one year. The subscription includes protection updates and new product features. The product will cease to function entirely after one year unless the subscription is renewed.

Benefits for Organizations

You can use Norton Internet Security to:

• Protect your organization's data from viruses, spyware, spam, and other threats
• Reduce system administration costs by keeping your computers running smoothly
• Prevent uninvited connections to computers and other devices so they cant steal information, install and launch programs, or make other dangerous changes to your organization's computers

Major Capabilities

• 24/7 threat monitoring and insight: Aggregates reports from numerous sources, including the Norton community, to identify the latest verified threats.
• SONAR: Uses behavior technology to identify likely threats that have not yet been reported.
• Centralized management: The cloud-based Norton Management Center allows you to fix, update, renew, and install all your organizations Norton products from a single location.
• Safe Web and Facebook:  Protects users who surf the Internet or receive Facebook feeds from dangerous links, infected downloads, and unsafe websites.

Newest Version

This product description is for the version of Norton Internet Security that was released in September 2012. However, when you download your Norton product, you will receive the most recent version. As updates are released, they are installed automatically.

Retail Version

This product is identical to the version sold through the Symantec website and includes the standard support, renewal, and upgrade options available with retail products.

Choose Carefully

The administrative fee for this product is not refundable, and the product cannot be exchanged.

Obtaining This Product

When your donation request has been approved, TechSoup will send a message to your organization email address with instructions for obtaining and activating this product.

• Hardware:
• 300-MHz (or higher) processor for Windows XP; 1-GHz for Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8
• 256 MB or more RAM
• 300 MB available hard-disk space
• Software:
• Windows 8 (32-bit and 64-bit) standard and Pro; Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit) Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate; Windows Vista with SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit) Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Ultimate; Windows XP with SP2 (32-bit only) Home, Professional, Tablet PC, Media Center
• Other:
• The capacity to download 104 MB of data
• For email scanning — a POP3-compatible email client
• For browser vulnerability protection — Internet Explorer 7.0 or later (32-bit only); Firefox (32-bit only)
• For anti-spam — Outlook 2002 or later; Outlook Express 6.0 or later; Windows Mail (spam filtering only)
• For browser phishing protection, safe search, and password management — Internet Explorer 7.0 or later (32-bit only); Firefox (current and the most recent previous 32-bit major releases); Google Chrome (current and the most recent previous 32-bit major releases)

• Donated product will be distributed under this program to qualifying organizations only, not to individuals.
• Two Symantec Norton products and two Symantec Enterprise products may be requested within a fiscal year (July 1 to June 30).
• Up to 100 licenses may be requested for each product except Backup Exec products, for which 1 license may be requested.
• Eligible organizations must have an annual operating budget of less than $10 million.
• This donation is available to nonprofits with 501(c)(3) designation and to public libraries. Public libraries must either have valid 501(c)(3) nonprofit status or be listed in the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) database.
• This donation will not be made available to some student groups or academic organizations, employee or membership benefit organizations, some social or recreational clubs, Boy Scouts, organizations that support political parties or candidates, advocacy groups, or faith-based organizations whose primary mission is religious (see Serving Faith-Based Organizations with Technology Donations).
• Organizations that advocate, support, or practice discrimination based on age, ethnicity, gender, national origin, disability, race, size, religion, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background are not eligible to participate in this program. Organizations must be willing and able to attest that they do not discriminate on any of these grounds in order to receive donations.
• Symantec products may not be transferred or resold.