Norton-branded antivirus software then leverages the data to skip known files during virus scans.

In standard trust, processes appearing in the majority of participants' computers are deemed safe.

In the case of a mistake, a revocation mechanism was implemented, where clients receive a list of revoked SHA256 values via LiveUpdate.

[5] The Tech Herald, which tested Norton Internet Security 2009, found Insight affected system performance while whitelisting files.

The average amount of time Insight took to scan a 561 megabyte folder with 21,816 clean files was 0:00:24:41.