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.
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Microsoft Windows® 10 (All versions except Windows 10 S).
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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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Microsoft Windows Vista (all versions) with Service Pack 1 or later*
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Microsoft Windows XP (32 bit) Home/Professional with Service Pack 3 or later*
*Your Norton client security software will no longer receive the new product updates that the customers on supported versions of Windows (Windows 10, Windows 8, and Windows 7) will receive. However, your Norton client security software will continue to receive the latest malware definitions by LiveUpdate, vulnerability updates and compatibility fixes. Norton Password Manager browser extension is no longer supported on Windows Vista and Windows XP. For more information, see Norton Maintenance Mode for Windows XP and Windows Vista.
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Processor
For Windows 10/8/7/Vista: 1 GHz
For Windows XP: 300 MHz
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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)
For Windows Vista: 512 MB
For Windows XP: 256 MB
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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.
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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To promote security best practices, going forward Norton Security for Mac OS X will only support the latest and two previous versions of the Mac OS X operating system.
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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.
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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.x 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 SMS Text Blocking not supported when using Android 4.4 or later.
2 Auto-scan of apps on Google Play™ store supported on Android 4.0 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.
3 Android multi-user mode not supported.
4 Android 4 or later required for Norton Family Premier Android app.
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Operating System: Windows, Mac OS X, Android, iOS
Last modified: 01/22/2019