I’ve gone to the ‘opposition’, in the form of Norton Internet Security, as it is preinstalled on a new Win 7 PC I took delivery of a few days ago. I hope it will be OK and possible to fully remove if I feel the need to in time. I don’t mind paying the reduce price for a year, but I daresay it will rocket up towards £40/year after that.
I feel quite sad in some ways to be going away from Avast Free, but it is quite nice to have an integrated product for a change. I reckon I’ll be back at some point, but I will check into here to see how Avast is faring.
Oh just thought - my sig will be all wrong now! Better leave it for now.
Your computer, your choice.
I made mine a long time ago when I ditched NIS (It had a different name 10 years ago.) for avast!
I’ve never regretted the choice.
For me if it came pre-installed, it would be the first action (after downloading the avast installation file) I took to remove it and install the AV I was happy with and associated software, firewall, etc.
I have never been a great fan of suites and even more so Symantec products.
I had Norton years ago, and I thought the darn thing was a virus.It took over the PC and was just as hard to be rid of as a virus would be.They couldn’t pay me enough to put it back on.
The fast scan is very fast, but not sure if that’s because I don’t have it loaded up so much yet. Still not purchased MS Office. Trying out LibreOffice and Thunderbird for a bit. I far prefer Office/Outlook and think I will end up with that - so that will slow the fast scan.
I realise I would get Norton detractor comments here and I was one several years back, which is what led me to AVG then later Avast. Like I say I’m sure I’ll be back!!
