It seems to me Norton sucks, I think. I'm just not sure. My friend has it and wants to know. Ok, I want to know.

Good crud. There's plenty of anti-virus software out there that is just as good and just gets better as it is free.

I have been using Norton for almost 4 years, with no problems. I consider it one of the better AVs out there.

Has caught everything I've thrown at it, pretty low system overhead. My only really complaint is that they don't update their defs as often as I'd like. They average weekly updates (but if there's a new major threat they're good about pushing an update out faster) whereas some of the best like Trend Micro update daily, even several times per day.

Norton-Antivirus is pretty good though it is a tad bit slow. It is best to get something else in conjunction like a spysweeper which Norton for the most part doesn't do.

As others have touched on, it's both. It's scanner is top-notch, one of the best on the market. However, it really can impact system performance far more than most other AV applications out there.

I'll take either Norton, or Trend-Micro for anti-virus. I'd stay away from Norton Internet Security though. There are daily updates for Norton, but you have to manually download them, otherwise it's weekly, or when something nasty is released.

Crud. I use AVG Free with no problems.

Ok, I must have been thinknig of one of the others that is crud. My bad.

nightmare!

good anti-virus, but a total resource hog! my friend had a p4 2.8 and 256 megs of ram, and it just slowed her computer to a half, i uninstalled norton and installed AVG, and it works much better. I has norton internet security on my PC, and it really slowed down my internet connection, it scans EVERY last packet that comes to your computer

Norton has protected my dad's computer from pretty much all of the nasty virii out there, even bugbear.

But my mum's computer.... it's so clogged with adware.... But then again, we only put it on my mum's a few months ago, and it's been on the internet since we got it in early 2004...

:D

I use Vet Antivirus and it works very well.