Ok Norton AV 2005 is gone, keys etc purged with the remover tool (I have NAV on CD to reinstall should it be required yet).
NOD32 30 day trial in progress, 'in depth analysis' of my hd's is well under way.
I have to say, I never really had an issue with NAV 2005. It always seemed to do what I asked of it. I installed NAV 2006 or 2007 (I forget which) on a pc for
her mother; I hated the way it had loads of system popups about windows auto update being turned off etc. It was easy enough to suppress them after having a play, but I didn't like it none the less.
2005 semed less intrusive than later versions.
A change is needed to see if there's anything better.
I've got AVG free running on
her machine connected to the network and it appears to be fine.
We go through a router firewall anyway, which so far has things pretty well ok, plus running a software firewall at the same time doesn't slow anything down, thouhg it's off at the moment (ZA Pro, also due for update renewal) - I read somewhere that that was a good thing?
I'll post back in a few days with a comparison. As yet I'm undecided what I might actually be prepared to pay for.