Originally Posted By: heypete
Fortunately, we use Sophos at the university where I work. No problems here.
Honestly, with all the issues with McAfee and Norton (e.g. resource bloat) over the last few years, why does anyone bother?
Personally, I use Microsoft Security Essentials on my Windows computers at home, and that works rather well. For better or worse, my Linux computers are antivirus-free.
I took the plunge and downloaded Microsoft Security Essentials because it has been highly recommended by folks on here and elsewhere. Of course, Microsoft had to download all the latest updates for my XP Home SP2 on this 4 year old laptop. I had automatic updating turned off so you may know the mess that created.
This machine slowed down to an absolute crawl with that stuff on here!
To make a long story short, I dumped all that and all is well.
Avast works for me and I haven't used a Symantec product or McAfee in years.