Norton, hands down! wouldn't trust any other except for Avast AV. (I think they now do firewall too, but not sure how that stands up)

 

Norton was sposed to be hungry a while ago, I think they've streamlined it a lot and it's not as hungry as it used to be 

Hungry?

Talk proper England like wot I does!!!

Oh FFS!  Resource hungry! (People claim it to slow your system down) but that's not the case nowadays 

Ok ok - chillax

I'm not up to speed with techno speak

 

But wot about the cost - it appears twice as expensive as McAfee

I've only ever used Norton .............no complaints - twice recently it has jumped in and blocked at crucial times. I would give the thumbs up  to Norton - you have to speak as you find!

McAfee, Norton is shit Dunno about downloads - do McAfee not have a website?

You pay for what you get though I think. There's deals to be done 

I thought they were about the same price for comparable products!  Currently Norton £22, McAffee £24 at a certain leading internet-based retailer.  A certain high street catalogue based retailer has Norton for a similar price. The thing about Norton and McAfee is they are often discounted to almost half their claimed retail price when on offer, which is quite often.

 

The best place to download McAfee is at the McAfee site, although you'd be mad to do so, as it's priced at over £50 compared to its box price of £24 where I mentioned above.

 

I've had no problems with Norton on my main newest PC running Windows 7 but loads previously on an older PC and loads currently on that same PC which runs XP. I'd sooner think it's the PC rather than Norton.  Difficult to say whether it's the software being just not up to the job for PC or the PC being old and beyond redemption after numerous updates and software changes.

I have Avira free anti virus.

http://www.avira.com/en/avira-free-antivirus

Thank you for your views

Its interesting that the views vary soooo widely

As we spoke my Norton turned off

I had no option but to renew immediately

 

Sometimes it good to have your hand forced i guess

A bit like going to the chemist and finding Head n shoulders OR Vosene - and nothing else

What about a firewall though Erin? 

I've not had any dealings with it for a long time, but both (support) places I've worked where staff get new laptops with Norton as standard - Norton is pretty much the first thing that goes

And I'm working on Vista and Norton (and mostly IE) I haven't had a problem with it 

Kaspersky

See, we all have our favourites. I think it depends what other stuff you have on your pooter 

Definitely no to Norton. It invades, blocks, stops, annoys. Can't think of a worse provider, apart from McAfee possibly.

Sorry, disagree! 

Ditto,it's excellent.

My cousins partner always uses Avira,he can programme comps and strip them down and rebuild them.He hates Norton.

I've never experienced that TBH .....................i feel very safe with Norton.

And its a bugger to get rid of completely - it leeches everywhere

Me too 

Must be LE Norton then?

Thats free http://www.zonealarm.com/secur...ty-free-firewall.htm

No Triumph option?

 

Or Triton? 

I watch Cafe Racer  

It's Ace.

Comodo is another good (entirely free) firewall.

Cambridge Fetheringham-Whittingstall?

No...onions is wrong.

 

Durham?

Out of the two I always preferred macafee, but knowing what I now know, I would recommend to anyone to save up, buy an apple iMac and never look back at Microsoft ever again