A few years back I switched from Norton to AVG (free) and have not had a 
virus on my computers. With Norton since DOS I also never had a virus. 
With both programs, every once in a while I got/get a message that some 
bad thing was being blocked. Both products update automatically. The 
reason I changed products is not quality.

Norton kept adding more and more to their product to where (in my 
opinion) it had become bloat ware. I did an evaluation between Norton 
and AVG and found that Norton consumed 3 times as much RAM as did AVG. I 
had found one of the answers to the gradual slow down in my computer. I 
switched to AVG and was pleased at the increase in performance.

I do not know what, if any, the current performance difference is, but I 
just thought I'd mentioned that there are reasons other than quality to 
use a different product. I really hope this does not open another long 
forum discussion as this subject has been beat to death on numerous 
forums. As long as a product is doing its job and the operator likes it 
- that is good.

Tom

On 6/6/2011 11:24 AM, Dave@MonroeCommunity wrote:
> It amazes me how many different opinions there are about a product.
> I have been using Norton since the DOS days and I have never had a virus
> on any of my computers. I do let Norton update automatically and at times
> they are changing
> the virus database on a daily basis. Just my $59.99 worth of advice.
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