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. 
If you desire less protection…that’s your choice.
avast has proven time and again it’s superior to NIS.
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. 
DavidR
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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.
system
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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!!