Pros and Cos (Norton vs Kaspersky ) ?

Yeah you might have trouble just getting everyone to agree it's even functional...

Choice of AV is much like your car and car colour choice, it's quite personal and most people will defend their choice.

I've been using NIS since about 2001 and I've never had any problems so I stick with it.

MSE was never meant to be super robust, it's just a easily accessible free solution for people who are looking for that.
The firewall alone in a full dedicated suite is going to be far more complex than the entirety of MSE.
This is by design though, not through some lack of understanding.

Hum KIS through and through myself - said int the past for a few cents a day what the problem.

Having said that I must say I do like the Comodo Premium free - very akin to KIS in some ways.

pincushion said:

baxxter said:

I decided to use NIS 2011 ,thanks all :)

I can understand why some people seem to have a hatred of Norton - perhaps they were bitten as babies - but it can be tamed and is quite effective at keeping malware off your system if you aren't too reckless and disable everything. I have used it for quite a time and haven't had any problems. Have used 360 which is probably the dumbed down version but am going back to NIS 2011. I don't use the Identity Protection, Backup or the PC Tuneup apart from the Startup manager, preferring other means of doing these. I tweak the Settings to disable much in there as some I think can be quite intrusive and usually set it to Silent Mode all day once it has updated and do a Quickscan either at same time or later. Seems to behave well enough for me but it has to be controlled properly.

I suppose it's all valid points you make, but what you have to consider, is that in my case at least it doesn't have anything to do with a failure in protection from either of the two. It has to do with the massive amount of machines I've worked on over the years that are suffering debilitating bsod's because of one or the other of these two software suites (the free av's aren't exempt from this either)
The reason I openly suggest MSE is not because I think it offers the best protection, that would be ridiculous given the available data on the subject. I suggest it because it's about 90% less likely to result in problems given my own personal experience.

...and while granted I'm sure these two av's work fine for many people ( I don't suspect they would still be in business were this not the case) I've seen way too many nightmare scenarios involving them over the years to just recommend either of them openly to 'average' level users.