Q: I have just installed Norton (which I paid for) in a temper. It just keeps giving error messages and I've been having nothing but trouble. For tech support they are charging me after already paying for it so I refuse to use it again. I had a similar experience with McAffee before. Therefore I want to use AVG free because I've heard nothing but good experience about it on here. I'm just worried about my latpop as it's a top of the range brand new one. I'm running Vista Home Premium and I'm going to use Windows Defender Firewall alongside AVG Free. Should this protect my PC sufficiently.
A: Well I'm glad to see that you've found Norton to be rubbish. You are not alone, not by a long way. Anyway, until quite recently I was running AVG Free Edition v8.0 on two computers and found it to be very good. But after a recommendation from this site I uninstalled AVG and installed Avast instead. Again, it is a free download and I would say that it is better than AVG, but that is not to say that AVG isn't good. Try either one of these and you will be better off than if you stick with Norton.