Norton and McAfee at one time were decent. But now, they are still being used by the
masses mainly because they have name recognition, and have good deals with major PC
manufacturers for trial versions loaded on new systems. I would have neither on my
system. Norton is a bloated resource hog. McAfee has caused many problems on many
systems not playing nice with the OS, software, and in some cases hardware. I do not
consider AVG "sub standard." My clients and I have been using AVG for years, and have
never had any problems, nor have any of us ever had to reinstall the OS. Just because AVG
does not have the name recognition and some of the bloated unneeded features that
Symantec/Norton (who can ever forget the introduction/debacle of Norton's Office Plug-in)
and McAfee have, does not mean that AVG does not do the job that it was made to do, very
well, with very little use of system resources, and not over-entrenching itself in the OS.
Try doing a Norton uninstall, and notice how much of it remains. Y'all might as well call
it the Symantec/Norton Registry, rather than the Windows Registry. Maybe that is an
overstatement. But, it is not fun having to manually remove every Symantec/Norton
Registry entry AFTER an uninstall. Even the Norton uninstall Cleanup tool does not get it
all. Caveat emptor, when you have to download and use a cleanup tool for a something that
you have already uninstalled, and then even the cleanup tool does remove all of it.
T.C.
