Virus Chaser Compare with Norton Antivirus

			Virus Chaser	Norton Anti-Virus
System configuration options and installation	Operation System Support		Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows ME Windows 2000 Server Windows XP Windows 2003 Windows Vista	Windows 98 Windows ME Windows NT Windows 2000 Pro. Windows XP Windows Vista
	Minimum System Requirement	CPU	Intel Pentium 233MHz	Intel Pentium 300MHz
		RAM	64MByte	128MByte
		Hard-Disk	8MByte	70Mbyte
	Installation File Size	Pre-installation	3.9MByte	28Mbyte
		Post-installation	4.9MByte	49Mbyte
		Misc.	- Enterprise version has only two files write to window’s system directory.	Many system files been placed to different Hard Disks in different directory, which may cause de-installation problem.
	Execution Performance		No affect on computer performance.	Computer performance degraded.
System Updating	Update Method		5 ~ 120 minutes randomly choose automatically updating time	LiveUpdate – Need manual updating for daily virus definition.
	Updating Interval		Daily updating, randomly choose updating interval	3 ~ 7 days
	Updating Volume		1 – 7 Kbyte	150 Kbyte ~ 4Mbyte
	Updating Mode		- Separate updating Virus Definition and Scanning Engine. - Compare server and client files, automatic error correction.	- Not update scanning engine, Force user to buy new version Anti-virus software. - No error correction.

		Virus Chaser	Norton Anti-Virus
Virus Scan and Recovery	RAM Scan	System level memory scan and recover (including all files called by the running processes)	No such function
	Compress File Support	RAR, Zip, LZH, AlZip … Include all compress format	Zip, LZH, RAR (Sometimes cannot find virus in *.rar file)
	Compression Level	Support up to 64 times compress	Support up to 10 times compress
	Virus Blocking Algorithm	System BIOS Level	File Integrity Checking
	Virus Database Size	45197 (No redundant)	64699 (Many redundant counting)
Miscellaneous	Multi Language Support	- Support 6 languages (English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai). - Automatically change the interface language according to system default setting.	Specific language version for one installation.
Miscellaneous	User Interface	Simple and clear, Intelligent UI.	Many technical wording in the user interface.
Centralized Management Tools	Centralized Data Update	Yes	No
	Virus Detection Statistics Report	Yes	No
	Hardware Inventory Report	Yes	No
	Software Inventory Report	Yes	No
	Remote Control Client Terminals	Yes	No
Customer Support	Virus Outbreak Emergency Support	Collect virus samples from client installations. Update virus definition within 6 hours. All client computers could update the Virus Definition automatically.	Research Center in Australia spreading new virus definition to all client installations. No automatic daily updating.
Customer Support	General Technical Support Center	Technical research center in Hong Kong support through telephone, Email and online enquiry.	Need to purchase fee-base technical support. No technical support team in Hong Kong.