[Royal Wulff]

I’d like to get rid of Symantec products on my machines. What is the best free/cheap replacement?

[Yosemitest]

"I sort`ta like Norton, but they're not as good in 2008 as they were in 2005.

Take a look at Spyware Terminator (freeware)

or try MajorGeeks.com site for Spyware Terminator.

[Marauder]

Go to downloads.com and get AVG. It’s free and effective. As far as spyware, I’m using both “SpyBot - Search and Destroy” and Ad-Aware. Both are free, and I’ll keep using them until I find a good replacement (or two). What’s weird is that both are current with updates and SpyBot has for the last 6 or 7 scans ended with “No threats found,” while Ad-Aware continually finds anywhere from 50 - 100 threats. I don’t know yet whether SpyBot is dropping the ball or Ad-Aware is making all that stuff up.