I dunno about this. . . .

I would have to be awfully darned convinced that there was something better out there before I'd swap Norton antivirus software for anything else. I've been using it since I first went on the internet (I used Norton Utilities before then, and still do) and I've never been nailed by a virus. I have the Norton Internet Security suite, including firewall, loaded on our desktop, and both Barbara and I have it on our HP notebooks. To avoid conflicts, I disabled the Windows XP firewall and use the Norton one, which monitors two-way traffic, not just incoming. Also, we're broadband and wireless, well secured (I had a friend who writes books on home wireless systems set us up). We do most of our internet surfing with our HP notebooks, and Norton has stopped a whole bunch of viruses and various other attacks and attempted intrusions (it usually lets you know when this happens—little screen pops up). I periodically check with Shields-Up and a couple of other sites and have them probe, and they can't find our computers. Stealth mode.

I haven't noticed any tendency for NAV to slow our computers down—except when it automatically updates the virus definitions. This happens every few days, and sometimes, if the nasties are out and about, maybe twice in one day. But it only slows down for a couple of minutes, at the same time letting me know that it's updating the definitions. I figure that's a pretty small price to pay for the protection.

Are you sure it's NAV that's causing the slow-down?

Don Firth