Norton Utilities used to be a wonderful tool; Norton AV wasn't bad either. But since Symantec took over the package has grown so huge and blobby that I'm surprised that anything works! In fact, I'm convinced that Symantec are trying to take over the world...
Me, I went from Nortons to AVG for a few years, then when AVG got a bit bloated I went to Avast! free on the advice of the good folk hereabouts. That, with a firewall of your choice and a good sprinkling of adblockers & so on, should do all the Norton does.
And btw, download and use Norton's own removal tool; other methods of removal seem to leave all sorts of broken stubs around which confuse Windoze.
Just my opinion.
(Delighted that it's shared with Guru-Mike!)
Last edited by jimtherev; 1st February 2011 at 22:37.
Reason: crossed with 'im