When you upgrade from plain antivirus to a full security suite, you expect your protection to get a boost, and Norton doesn’t disappoint—as shown by our tests and tests by independent labs, too. Where the basic Norton AntiVirus Plus just protects one Windows or macOS device, Norton 360 Deluxe lets you protect Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS devices. It adds a full-powered VPN, Dark Web Monitoring, Parental Control, and more. Windows users get special enhancements including Online Banking Protection and 50GB of hosted storage for online backups. As you can see, this excellent suite packs a ton of features, and it’s well worth the price.
What’s the Price of Norton 360 Deluxe?
A year’s subscription to Norton 360 Deluxe lists for $104.99, which gets you five security suite and VPN licenses to use on your devices. After the first year, Norton’s VPN alone would run $79.99 per year, and the parental control system costs $49.99 per year as a standalone, so this suite’s price looks pretty darn good. Webroot’s cross-platform suite runs $79.99 for five licenses, and Trend Micro Maximum Security‘s is $89.95 per year for five, but you just don’t get the same comprehensive security coverage with these two, or with most competing products. McAfee Total Protection costs $159.99 per year, a good bit more than Norton, but the subscription lets you install McAfee’s top protection on every device in your household.
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In the unlikely event you truly have just one Windows or macOS device to protect, you might consider Norton 360 Standard. This single-license subscription costs $20 less than Deluxe; it also cuts your online backup storage to 10GB. There must be a market, or Norton wouldn’t bother with this offering, but for most users Norton 360 Deluxe is a much better deal.
On the flip side, if you’re shopping for Norton at Walmart, Amazon, or certain other retailers, you may encounter Norton 360 Premium (10 licenses) or Norton 360 Platinum (20 licenses). This review focuses on Deluxe.