Norton Security system requirements
With Norton Security, you now get powerful Norton Protection for your PCs, Mac®, smartphones, and tablets. To successfully install Norton Security on your device, it must meet the minimum system requirements that are listed in this article.
Norton Security Premium includes parental controls to keep the Internet activities of your kids safe and provides 25 GB of secure online backup for up to 10 devices (PCs only). It does not include secure backup for Mac OS X.
Select your device to learn more
I have a Windows computer
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Microsoft Windows® 10 (32 bit and 64 bit).
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Microsoft Windows 8/8.1 or later (all versions). Some protection features are not available in Windows 8 Start screen browsers.
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Microsoft Windows 7 (all versions) with Service Pack 1 or later
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Processor
For Windows 10/8/7: 1 GHz
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RAM
For Windows 10: 2 GB (minimum of 512 MB RAM required for Recovery Tool)
For Windows 8/7: 1 GB (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit) (minimum of 512 MB RAM required for Recovery Tool)
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Hard disk space
300 MB of available hard disk space
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Microsoft Internet Explorer® 8.0 or higher (32-bit and 64-bit)1,2
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Mozilla Firefox® (32-bit and 64-bit)2
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Google Chrome™ (32-bit and 64-bit)2
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Microsoft Edge® 2
Norton Security supports email scanning on all POP3 compatible email services.
The following email service is supported for Antispam:
1 Some protection features are not available in Microsoft Internet Explorer 10.0 or later.
2 As made available by Symantec within your service period.
I have a Mac
Operating system updates contain critical security-related updates and it is a security best practice to always update to the latest version of the operating system. We strongly encourage you to upgrade to the latest version of Mac OS X.
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Your Norton product is supported only on Mac OS X 10.7.5 (Lion) or later. If your Mac runs on OS X 10.6 or earlier, upgrade your Mac operating system to the supported version.
To install Norton product version 8.x or later, you need to have Mac OS X 10.10.x or later.
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Mac computer with Intel® Core™ 2 Duo, core i3, Core i5, core i7, or Xeon processor)
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2 GB of RAM
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300 MB of available hard disk space
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Internet connection for LiveUpdate
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Safari®1, 2
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Mozilla Firefox®1, 2
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Google Chrome™ 1
1 As made available by Symantec within your service period.
2 Supports current and the most recent previous 32-bit major releases.
I have a Mobile device
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To successfully install Norton Mobile Security, your device must meet the following minimum requirements:
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Android 4.1 or later 1,2,3,4
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Android tablet or phone with 15 MB storage space
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Android standard Internet browser
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Google Chrome™ 18 for Android, or later
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Mozilla Firefox® for Android 37.0.2 or later
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Opera™ 8.0 or later
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Samsung™ standard browser 1.0 or later
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Requires an active Internet connection for device registration and use of the web-based Anti-Theft features.
1 Auto-scan of apps on Google Play™ store supported on Android 4.1 or later except for Samsung devices. Samsung devices running Android 4.2 or later are supported. For earlier versions of Android, the Google Play "Share" function must be used to scan apps on Google Play.
2 Android multi-user mode not supported.
3 Android 4.1 or later required for Norton Family parental control Android app.
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Operating System: Windows, Mac OS X, Android, iOS
Last modified: 06/21/2019