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What I found to be actually the bloated Norton was the old Symatec System Works going back several years now.
I think Symantec now however is trending much more like I see with VIPRE's av renamed from Home Premium to Internet Security 2012 being the version of that program that includes a firewall and web filtering processes.
I recently spoke with someone else here running the 2010 Internet Security by Norton that noticed the newer versions are less cluttered then had been the story for Norton over the years.
As far as Avast when tried here that one couldn't find a data miner while AVG at time also did but missed others. Back then I would have to have a few more programs on in order to catch what the others kept missing. Not any more!
Lately one thing to note here is that I have been seeing security prompts about some sites without VIPRE kicking in but by WaterFox the 64bit flavor of FireFox showing browsers can also make a difference at times.
The prompt will show "this site is not secure. Do you wish to proceed?". And even Web of Trust hasn't flagged anything either. Or is it simply WF being overprotective to some extent?