Just bought a new computer. It had Norton pre-installed. It also has an original image that can quickly restore the computer to its "new" configuration.

Before I trust such a feature, I try it out. Just for fun, I did not update the av signature file. As far as I could tell, it was nearly a year out of date.

I went surfing for about a half hour. I did not open any email or (intentionally) download any files. I just surfed the net using IE. I did visit a music download site and a warz site as well as a cross section of sites I would exptect to be safe.

In 30 minutes I contracted 4 viruses and 3 Trojans, one of which keeps advertising an anti-virus.

Fortunately, the restore worked perfectly.