Symantec on Wednesday released the first public beta of Norton 360, a subscription security service that will compete with Microsoft's OneCare when it goes final sometime in the next four months. The new consumer security software provides anti-virus and anti-spyware protection, anti-fraud features, automated backup and restore, and computer tune-up tools. It's designed to run more or less unattended, conducts chores such as anti-virus scans and backups when the PC is idle, and was built to consume fewer computer resources than traditional security suites. The backup feature will include 2 Gbytes of online storage space; the beta, however, provides only 250 Mbytes, and that only to the first 25,000 testers. http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20061123/tc_cmp/195900100