Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
I've been looking around for a new anti-virus/spyware/firewall
provider as I'm highly dissatisfied with the Norton products - not so
much on the technical end, but their incessant begging for renewal
starting two months before the license is up.

I stumbled into AVG on the recommendation of a friend. She says it
works great and prefers it to Norton by a factor of 10.

Anybody else use it? I'm leaning towards AVG, but just want another
opinion.

I had it installed on my mothers computer, and she never got a virus,
but she is a low risk user. I changed from AVG to Avast when she
purchased a new computer due to a better review in one of the magazines
I read.

AVG and Avast are both considered light weight, small footprint AV and
do a fair job of catching virus, but might be slow to update databases
with new viruses.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus has been the highest rated, and is priced similar
to Norton.

I used McAfee because it is free from my ISP. It has a large footprint,
but does a great job.