How do you respond to Norton risk indicators?

Whenever, you download, install, and activate your Norton products via norton.com/setup, you are entitled to get many benefits with it. But the first benefit that you get is of eradicating harmful viruses from your device. The Norton product indicates the availability of the threats through different colors in its status bar or notification area of the main window of Norton. There are three different colors that are there to serve this purpose.

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The details of three indicator colors

The three given colors let you understand if your device is secure, or you need to take actions to make it free of attacks. The details of each color tile are given below so that you can take corresponding actions to ultimately protect your device.

• The ‘Green’ color simply means that your device is protected and you do not need to take any action to make it threat-proof.
• On the other hand, the ‘Orange’ color on the security tile is indicative of a threat and you might need to give attention to your device.
• While the ‘Red’ color indicates that your computer is at high risk of getting attacked or it has already been under any suspicious activity.

Important: in case you have subscribed to Deluxe+ or Premium Norton subscription via norton.com/setup, then you will get one additional benefit i.e. the option to backup your data if your device is ever at risk.

What if your device is at risk?

1. Launch Norton on your device.
2. Go to the ‘My Norton’ window and tap ‘Open.’
3. For this, navigate to the ‘Device Security’ tab.
4. Now, choose the colored tile, as appropriate.
5. After that, tap on the option reading as ‘Fix Now.’
6. Complete the on-screen prompts.
7. In case you are still unable to fix the issue, then click ‘Help.’
8. After that, tap on the ‘Get Support’ option.

Conclusion-

You’ll be able to run the diagnostic tool on your device after which you will be able to get rid of the threats there are there on your device. Apart from this, you can also download and run the Norton Rescue Tool from norton.com/setup if you see that your device is highly at risk.