I hate to jump on the "bash McAfee" wagon, but I gave up on them about a year ago when I figured out that everytime I visited their website I had to spend time clearing all the popups and "offsite" cookies.

It just doesn't seem like a company with a reputation as strong as theirs should need to support their web presence SPAMMING users with ads.

Most software copyright agreements (End User License Agreements - EULAs) prohibit publishing any "commercial review" of the software without permission. Several magazines have commented recently that McAfee was not included in competitive reviews because they refused to permit it, when asked.

I'm a little "underwhelmed" with Norton, because they've adopted the attitude "we'll do what's good for you - you don't need to know." It's very difficult to figure out what you need to set up, what you can set up, and what it's actually trying to do that you can't change - but it's the best I've got for now. (For business reasons, it's very difficult for me to try to use anything other than "mainstream" commercial software.)

John