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Norton is designed to protect against traditional threats like malware and ransomware, plus modern threats like phishing, impersonation, and social engineering scams. Many of today’s biggest risks are scam-driven (texts, emails, deepfakes, and social engineering), and Norton’s AI Scam Protection is built to spot these patterns.

Yes. Norton includes scam and phishing protection designed to detect suspicious links, malicious websites, impersonation attempts, and social engineering tactics. This matters because many modern attacks focus on tricking people into giving up credentials or payments, not installing traditional malware.

The full list of features in McAfee’s flagship subscription is exhaustive. Antivirus, link screening, and firewall protection are just the start. You get other major online protections as well—password manager, VPN, web link screening, identity monitoring on the dark web, tracker removal, and if you’re signed up for a family plan, parental controls. McAfee next throws in its Social Privacy Manager, which offers privacy settings suggestions for social media services; Scam Protection, an AI-powered tool to help screen for risky links in text messages; Online Account Cleanup, which helps you find

With the amount of sensitive details McAfee asks for—social security number, addresses, birthdate, etc—you might wonder how safe it is to hand over the whole set to one entity. McAfee outlines how it handles your info in its privacy and legal terms, but I also asked the company who specifically sees the data and the protocols used to safeguard it. McAfee says that it partners with Transunion (one of the three major US credit bureaus) for matters related to identity theft and power of attorney, and Yodlee for transaction monitoring. As for the data itself, McAfee says AES-256 encryption is used