[CyberAnt]

Excuse me .. NORTON is the very best.

[js1138]

I have no dog in this fight. I have Norton installed on one home machine and AVG on another. At work I have an enterprise version of MacAfee, version 7, I believe. My daughter has Trend. They all work.

I got Norton for my home computer because, at the time i got it, it was the only one that fully integrated with Outlook Express. It scanns incoming and outgoing mail.

Recently I upgraded it to version 2005. I was hesitant because CPU magazine had dongraded it for compatibility issues. I disabled the Norton firewall during installation because I use ZoneAlarm (Windows 2000, not XP).

I have no complaints about this installation, but I insatlled on a new XP machine for my boss and ran into firewall problems. It seemed to be blocking automatic updates for another program. This is never a problem with ZoneAlarm, because it always tells you what it is doing and offers alternatives in clear English.

[BJungNan]

Excuse me .. NORTON is the very best.

And we have now officially heard from a Norton employee. Thanks, but you are running against the tide here.

[chronic_loser]

You are correct. Norton is the best....... bloatware.

It runs a close second to MS itself for turning a pc into a crawling tortoise.

I have a PII with 128 meg of ram with ubuntu linux which ran circles around my asus one gig of ram xp2800 barton with xp. Folks committed to windows need MORE MORE MORE ram and processing power just to cut thru all the crap needed to push a bloated insecure OS and its little widgets needed to keep it "safe." You really should download ubuntu onto a cd and run it (you don't have to "install" anything, it runs off a cd). Give yourself a little time to learn the system, and you will NEVER go back. www.ubuntulinux.com

[chronic_loser]

You are correct. Norton is the best....... bloatware.

It runs a close second to MS itself for turning a pc into a crawling tortoise.

I have a PII with 128 meg of ram with ubuntu linux which ran circles around my asus one gig of ram xp2800 barton with xp. Folks committed to windows need MORE MORE MORE ram and processing power just to cut thru all the crap needed to push a bloated insecure OS and its little widgets needed to keep it "safe." You really should download ubuntu onto a cd and run it (you don't have to "install" anything, it runs off a cd). Give yourself a little time to learn the system, and you will NEVER go back. www.ubuntulinux.com