Excellent antivirus protection, good performance, and a simple, streamlined user interface earned NAV our Editors' Choice. NAV will soon require an interface overhaul to retain its market share. The installation was simple yet sophisticated. NAV's interface is straightforward and simple to use. The on-demand scanner lets you include drives from the visual portion of the main screen and control the scan through an elaborate suite of options.
Exclusions can include folders, wildcard specifications, and individual files.
Unfortunately, the Scan command on the main menu lets you scan only one file or folder at a time, a surprising limitation in light of the competition. Whereas other schedulers let you enter options through a GUI, NAV requires you to enter them in the command line, a task many users will find difficult. Moreover, command format isn't described in the scheduler section of the manual and is omitted from the help files, which we found below average. Norton AntiVirus 4.0. Like most of these packages, Norton AntiVirus includes a list of viruses known to the program.