Norton AntiVirus

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Product

Norton AntiVirus Plus is the entry tier of Norton's consumer security range: a subscription covering a single device with malware and scam protection, a firewall, a password manager and 2 GB of cloud backup. It sits below the Norton 360 plans, which add VPN and identity-monitoring features. Norton AntiVirus covers macOS and Windows. It is recorded as supporting host firewall, malware detection, ransomware protection and web protection. It is aimed at Consumer buyers. It is Gen Digital's entry in the home antimalware category.

Current Version: 22.24.8.36
Product Page: us.norton.com/…/norton-antivirus-…
Market: Consumer
Licence: Paid
Price: USD 59.99 / annual
Record Created: 2026-08-20
Last Updated: 2026-10-21

Vendor

Gen Digital is not a product brand: it is the company that now owns most of the consumer antivirus market's famous names. It was formed in 2022 when NortonLifeLock — itself the consumer half of Symantec, left behind when Broadcom bought the enterprise business in 2019 — merged with Avast. Through that lineage it owns Norton, Avast, AVG and Avira, all four of which appear separately in this index, along with LifeLock identity protection and CCleaner. What is listed under this name is the Norton line: Norton, Norton AntiVirus and Norton 360, the last being the bundle that combines antivirus with a VPN, cloud backup, a password manager and dark-web monitoring. The consolidation matters when reading results. Four of the best-known consumer brands in this index answer to one owner, and several of them share detection technology, so four separate-looking scores are not four independent opinions about a threat. Vendor page →

Website: gendigital.com
Country: United States
Headquarters: Tempe, United States
Year Established: 1982
Customers: 500K organisations
Users: 500M users
Revenue: $5.0B (2026)

Platforms

macOS	native
Windows	native

Target Market

Consumer primary

Capabilities

Pricing

Plan	Licence	Priced per	Billed	Price
Summary	Subscription	not stated	yearly	USD 59.99

Versions

22.24.8.36Windows
12.7macOS

The newest release each source names per platform, not every release the vendor has shipped. A release date is shown only where one is recorded.

Independent Tests

At a glance — latest result per lab test

AV-Comparatives Real-World Protection TestAdvanced+

Tested: Windows2026-06-15lab report ↗

AV-Comparatives Malware Protection TestAdvanced

Tested: Windows2026-10-15lab report ↗

AV-Comparatives Performance TestAdvanced+

Tested: Windows2026-10-20lab report ↗

Each bar is one lab’s own figure on that lab’s own scale. Labs test different models at different times, so the figures are not combined into one score.

All results

AV-Comparatives Real-World Protection TestAV-Comparatives Real-World Protection Test — July–October 20252025-11-17

Advanced+Protection Rate: 100%False Positives: 8

AV-Comparatives Real-World Protection TestAV-Comparatives Real-World Protection Test — February–May 20262026-06-15

Advanced+Protection Rate: 99.3%

AV-Comparatives Malware Protection TestAV-Comparatives Malware Protection Test — September 20252025-10-15

Offline Detection Rate: 97.4%Online Detection Rate: 98.9%Online Protection Rate: 99.98%False Positives: 8

AV-Comparatives Malware Protection TestAV-Comparatives Malware Protection Test — March 20262026-04-15

Offline Detection Rate: 96.3%Online Detection Rate: 98.7%Online Protection Rate: 99.97%False Positives: 9

AV-Comparatives Malware Protection TestAV-Comparatives Malware Protection Test — September 20262026-10-15

AdvancedOffline Detection Rate: 95.4%Online Detection Rate: 98.3%Online Protection Rate: 99.96%False Positives: 15

AV-Comparatives Performance TestAV-Comparatives Performance Test — September 20252025-10-15

Impact Score: 3.8AV-Comparatives Score: 90

AV-Comparatives Performance TestAV-Comparatives Performance Test — April 20262026-04-22

Impact Score: 5.3AV-Comparatives Score: 90

AV-Comparatives Performance TestAntivirus Performance Test September 20262026-10-20

Advanced+Impact Score: 4.9AV-Comparatives Score: 90

Certifications

OESIS Framework SupportSupported1 activeSupported

OPSWAT Certified Security ApplicationGold1 activeGold

Change History

This record was created 2026-08-20. Everything below is what has changed since.

2026-10-21Test result addedNew AV-Comparatives Performance Test result: Advanced+evidence
2026-10-15Test result addedNew AV-Comparatives Malware Protection Test result: Advancedevidence
2026-09-28Test result addedNew AV-Comparatives Real-World Protection Test result: Advanced+evidence
2026-09-28Test result addedNew AV-Comparatives Real-World Protection Test result: Advanced+evidence
2026-09-23Capability addedWeb Protection: built inevidence
2026-09-23Capability addedHost Firewall: built inevidence
2026-09-23Capability addedRansomware Protection: built inevidence
2026-09-22Product updatedListed in Home Antimalwareevidence
2026-09-21Test result addedNew AV-Comparatives Performance Test resultevidence
2026-09-21Test result addedNew AV-Comparatives Performance Test resultevidence
2026-09-21Test result addedNew AV-Comparatives Malware Protection Test resultevidence
2026-09-21Test result addedNew AV-Comparatives Malware Protection Test resultevidence
2026-09-20Test result addedNew AV-Comparatives Real-World Protection Test resultevidence
2026-09-20Test result addedNew AV-Comparatives Real-World Protection Test resultevidence
2026-09-19Product updatedNo longer sold to: Enterpriseevidence
2026-09-19Product updatedSold to: Consumerevidence
2026-09-19Pricing plan addedPrice: USD 59.99 yearlyevidence
2026-09-09New versionNew version: 8.4.0 (macOS)evidence
2026-09-09New versionNew version: 22.24.8.36 (Windows)evidence
2026-09-09New versionNew version: 12.7 (macOS)evidence
2026-09-04Product updatedListed in Network Firewallevidence
2026-08-26Test result addedNew AV-Comparatives Real-World Protection Test resultevidence
2026-08-26Test result addedNew AV-Comparatives Real-World Protection Test resultevidence
2026-08-25Test result addedNew AV-Comparatives Real-World Protection Test resultevidence
2026-08-25Test result addedNew AV-Comparatives Real-World Protection Test resultevidence
2026-08-25Test result addedNew AV-Comparatives Real-World Protection Test resultevidence
2026-08-25Test result addedNew AV-Comparatives Real-World Protection Test resultevidence
2026-08-20Certification addedCertified: OESIS Framework Support (Supported)evidence
2026-08-20Capability addedMalware Detection: built inevidence
2026-08-20Pricing plan addedPrice: paidevidence
2026-08-20Product updatedSold to: Enterpriseevidence
2026-08-20New versionNew version: 22.24.8.36evidence
2026-08-20Platform addedRuns on macOSevidence
2026-08-20Platform addedRuns on Windowsevidence
2026-08-20Certification addedCertified: OPSWAT Certified Security Application (Gold)evidence
2026-08-20Product createdNew product listedevidence

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Malware Detectionkey	native
Ransomware Protectionkey	native
Behavioral Detectionkey	Not known
Web Protectionkey	native
Email Protection	Not known
Host Firewall	native
Sandbox Analysis	Not known
Cloud-Assisted Scanning	Not known
Heuristic Detection	Not known
Device Control	Not known
Vulnerability Shielding	Not known
Central Management Console	Not known