just say "no"
I will never recommend Norton or McAfee 'suite' malware protection products. I have at great pain [sometimes] removed these gremlins from MANY troubled systems.
terribly flawed, invasive, even destructive packages.
Top 5 Free Antivirus for 2011 | PCWorld
I have installed AVAST on probably 50 to 100 systems. I have gone in to troubled systems where AVG, Norton, other packages were installed, running, apparently doing their jobs, only to find that by scanning with AVAST and other tools, those aforementioneds had failed, and allowed trojans into the system [or worse...rootkits].
avast is smallish, light, fast, and deadly [to the bad guys].
Anymore, we are not much concerned with "viruses" but rather with sites that are sprinkled with hot links to malicious programs. The combination of AVAST Free, with all its scanners running, and Chrome [I also like firefox and opera..], properly config'd, offer great online on-the-fly protection. I do realize that Google have never met a tyrannical government they didn't just LOVE, so using Chrome probably means all your stuff is exposed to some contractors working for DHS, DIA, BATF, FBI, and your local "Fusion Center" :devil:. But very little east european Malware can hitch a ride via chrome
but for those users who insist on using IE plus Toolbars Du Jour.... there's nothing that can prevent the eventual infection. Its just a matter of when, and how bad
I would like to see some real, intensive independent testing of MSE if anyone has a link.... Most of the articles I see on the "Top 5" and "Top 10" anti-whatever packages are bogus.
I used to have Kaspersky in 2010 and it was great, i'm sure the 2012 one will be even better 
