[JoJo Gunn]

Norton's best feature is the uninstall function.

Well, not quite. Norton is so bloated that, depending on which version, they actually have a few uninstallers for their messy uninstall.

[Proud_texan]

Yeah, uninstallers for uninstallers. Several AV/security programs that come bundled are that way. I'm sure it couldn't be that when they are up for renewal it's so #$^& hard to get rid of them that in many cases I've had to take the box down to the bare metal and reinstall Windows. This applies to several of the larger AV/security suites.

But as noted there are a number of excellent alternatives most of which are very friendly to removal.

Haven't read all the messages yet and don't know if it's been mentioned but I'm currently evaluating Panda. It's not what I'm currently using on my production box (alas, it's the best AV program I've ever used but they discontinued it but haven't discontinued updates....yet). I was somewhat impressed with Panda's combo AV and anti-Spyware feature at least off the get go.

Again, haven't finished running it through it's paces, your mileage may vary.