Feedback, Complaints or Problems

Not really a defense...more of a glorified alert system with some "value-added" bells and whistles imho. If your AV program detects malware (and it's not a false-positive), the damage has already been done.

I have never had any issues with AVG at all. Personally and professionally.

My two cents here. From past experience I have had with Norton, it is they treat your computer as if you purchased it for the sole use of running their program. Their coders are the rudest possible when it comes to how they have it running and what it brushes aside in your system. Even when turned off it isn't really off, but in standby, typically, and will still invoke itself if it thinks something is up. The user has no possibility of knowing what they are doing in Norton's opinion.

More recently the US Government has passed a memo warning that Norton has many security flaws, and directed government users to terminate use of it and to use other more effective, means of AV protection.

To say Norton lost my respect many years ago is an understatement. In the past Norton being turned off just meant it stopped warning you of what it was doing. It actually refused to believe a user would actually want it off, and treated turning it off like an attack. I am biased, but Norton isn't worth the drive space it takes. Take my comment FWIW.

One last tidbit, Norton uses services on the system. Just removing it doesn't remove it. You MUST restart after the uninstall, as the services are still running in the background.

[Edited by tomcat2200, 7/25/2016 3:29:10 PM]