I'm like you Jayson I jumped long time ago out of the Norton / Mcafee cuddle puddle. I'm sure some are asking why because they are so popular so let me explain. OK say I wanted to write a virus or a trojan (and I never would) I would try and target the largest amount of ppl. So I would look for ways that I could get though the most popular group of antivirus programs which is Norton / Mcafee. Plus if you use those know then you know how they slow your computer down to a crawl when you are scanning - I hate that.

For me I LOVE NOD32. Its not a free antivirus but sometimes I think you get what you pay for if you know what I mean. They do have a free 30 day trial. I can run NOD32 in the background and surf the web with NO slowdown. Plus I think it catches so much more. I have a pc that I do run a stealth keylogger on (hey I'm a protective mom) and well you don't see this one it is super stelth but NOD32 picked it up and light up like a Christmas tree where when I had Norton it never saw it.

So why did I change? Well about 2 years ago I couldn't figure out what was wrong with my pc. I scanned it 3 times with Norton and nothing but there was something really wrong. Some of my IT friends laughted and told me to get out of the cuddle puddle and use NOD32 so I did. First scan pulled 9 trojans (gotta love kids downloading). I was blown away and never looked back. Oh FYI 9 trojans were due to my kids and Limewire & kazaa which is why limewire & kazaa are banned in my house.