Symantec Corp. on Monday announced the availability of Norton Confidential, the world's first all-inclusive online transaction security solution. Norton Confidential provides consumers with an unprecedented, dual level of protection against the most dangerous tools in an attacker's toolkit: fraudulent phishing Web sites & eavesdropping malware.

To further strengthen consumers' confidence when conducting transactions online, Norton Confidential increases protection when consumers are most at risk — at the very moment they begin sharing their sensitive, confidential personal information like passwords and account numbers. Most importantly, Norton Confidential takes the guesswork out of security with clear visual indicators that let consumers know if it's safe to conduct business online. Traditional security solutions require “signatures” to protect you against “known” threats – Norton Confidential also utilizes behavioral technologies to protect you from “unknown” threats that have never been seen before.

Norton Confidential is the only transaction security product to protect against both phishing and malware with a single solution. Norton Confidential is designed for Windows XP Home/XP Pro users and is eligible for a free Windows Vista compatibility update, if and only if Vista let Norton access the windows core.

The key features of Norton Confidential are- Phishing Protection, Crimeware protection (Keylogger, malware), Web site authentication, confidential info blocking, and Password protection.

The promotional price of Norton Confidential is US$34.99 (in Norton site), which includes one-year service subscription to use the product and receive Symantec's protection updates via LiveUpdate and new product functionality as available. Product will be available to ship on first week of November. Problem is since XP SP1 support is off and Vista doesn’t support core access how Norton Confidential will work?