I havent read through this entire thread. I got fed up with Norton a few years back. It consumed too many resources and slowed my computer down and was always causing some sort of problem. I have been using Eset's NOD32 and have been very happy with it. It scores extremely high on industry tests especially the "in the wild" virus detection. Its not quite as "plug and play" as Norton or Macaffee, but it isnt difficult to set up.