{"id":1180,"date":"2019-07-09T09:59:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T17:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nortonsecurityonline.com\/faq\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=1180"},"modified":"2024-12-24T14:33:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T22:33:33","slug":"what-happened-to-norton-antivirus-basic","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.antivirusaz.com\/faq\/art\/what-happened-to-norton-antivirus-basic\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened to Norton AntiVirus Basic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Norton AntiVirus Basic<\/strong> previously replaced the legacy Norton AntiVirus. However, <a href=\"\/norton\/\">NortonLifeLock<\/a> now offers <strong>Norton AntiVirus Plus<\/strong>. Norton AntiVirus Plus has everything Norton AntiVirus Basic did, plus Smart Firewall, PC Cloud Backup, Password Manager, and Norton&#8217;s Virus Protection Promise. 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