avast free is better than a paid version of norton. I had both.
I 've had norton for years. I use to hate the " you have a virus. but we can't delete it message" . If I get a virus with avast, it will get rid of it. norton slows your computer. avast don't. avast analyzes every single thing that you do on a computer. I know of no other a/v that does that
it took norton forever, before it could scan compressed (zip, rar) files. avast alway could