Norton 360

RJsfishin wrote:
But I won't go w/o saying,......the free ones are not out there to be nice to you and give you something for nothing. There ain't a free one out there that doesn't mess up your screen, begging you to upgrade to a paid version. I been down too many of them ugly roads,....never an issue w/ Norton.

I don't deny that the free antivirus programs are relentless in their pursuit of upgrading to their paid versions, but I gave up Norton years ago since it was such a system hog and have used AVG Free ever since and I have never gotten a virus on any of my systems. Once you understand the pitches to update, they are not a problem.

I also do some computer/network consulting and I ran across a new (to me) tactic of AVG's a few days ago. One of my clients had inadvertently installed a trial version of AVG Internet Security when she thought she was just upgrading and the trial period had run out and AVG quit working. I was in the process of doing the usual, uninstalling AVG Internet Security so I could install AVG Free Antivirus. When I tried to uninstall, AVG popped up a message saying that they were sorry to see me go and that they would uninstall AVG Internet Security and install AVG Free Antivirus automatically if I wanted. So I let them do it.

It's the first time I have seen this (and I have done the uninstall/re-install quite a few times for people) so it probably means they are seeing too many lost customers over the default AVG Internet Security option when a user tries to update AVG Free.