For me personally, I'll stay away from any Norton (Symantec) products at this time. My PC came preloaded with Norton (60 day trial), so I used it. For lack of knowledge I didn't know any better. Then my system slowed down to a crawl, come to find out it was Norton and it's bloated apps running in the background cutting my system performance in half. So I went with the free stuff from the web. Now I have been lighting fast ever since. Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking Norton. Norton was a great product back in the day before Symantec bought them out. To each his/her own. There are some out there that swear by it and others that hate it just as much. Although I have heard that Symantec is working on a version that will act like the the old Norton version but have that modern look and feel. If they can pull that off I give it another shot. Until then I'll stick with the free stuff.