What do you think - Norton vs AVG? (antivirus and utilities, etc)

[hlthe2b]

1. Well, Norton is an enormous comprehensive package that may or may not run well on an older

computer. I have it now and find it to be yes very comprehensive but often onerous. To get it to work with Malwarebytes (which I insist on using) required some tinkering but it was doable and they work together fine now. If you are using Firefox as your browser, I have found recent issues that I have yet to decide if it is coming from Firefox update incompatibilities or with its interphase with Norton. MS Edge and Chrome seem to work better with it. Again, it may just be Firefox.

Norton has a LOT of features I have never set up as I have alternatives I like already (like a password protector app, online cloud backup and do not wish to pay for full LIFELOCK which is now part of Norton)

I haven't used AVG in several years, so it is possible it has become really bloated as well.

Ironically, the package I liked the best in the past several years was Kaspersky--which STILL gets rated highly for consumer use, but for obvious reasons I moved on.


My suggestion is to do some reading of trusted reviews like this one from PCMagazine and maybe talk with your IT support at work (if you have one):

https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-security-suites