Review by ConsumerAdvocate (dakotad555) at (gmail) dot (com)

I’ve never been a fan of Norton products, but unfortunately I have to use them on several computers at work. While I don’t have a formal education in computers, I’ve built several of them from scratch, am an early adopter of things like Vista 64-bit, and spend a lot of time reading about them. Frankly, Norton anti-virus uses so much system resources it should be classified as bloatware, or even malware.

If you want your computer to run 30% slower, buy it. If you want your computer to run 10-15% slower, buy Macafee. If you want your computer protected from viruses and to run at peak efficiency, download one of the excellent, free virus software suites that are available.