[count-your-change]

I had Norton for a while and when I decide to use AVG I had no problem getting rid of it.
(Getting rid of Norton doesn’t require saying Trixie wants him to come home)

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Over the past 4 years, I have had far more problems using AVG or Avast. (One virus taken on AVG forced me to fully restore from F-10. Luckily, I saved the system but was completely dead until I did a full/hard restore. (Of course I lost all my saved files/pictures/documents and luckily I had made copies.)

The problems I have from those “free” virus programs, is they do not have large R&D because the bulk of their users are too cheap to pay the annual fee. So, they have a minimum of funds available to develop an ironclad program, or keep up with all the millions of hackers out there.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I think it depends upon whether you use Norton’s internal de-installation versus Windows add/remove programs from “Control Panel”. I don’t know which one works or doesn’t work. Regardless...the effectiveness of Norton has been called into quesion enough times (as far as I’m concerned) to doubt its AV effectiveness. I just think (again, from what I’ve heard, not from personal experience) that Norton itself has become a target.