Is Norton a good antivirus, or should I look elsewhere?

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Adding a VPN as part of the package would also be a plus if it’s affordable.

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Hello,

For questions about VPNs, visit r/VPN.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

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I use Bitdefender and highly recommend it.

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No, Norton isn’t brilliant

Very heavy on system recourses (About 600mb of ram idle in my tests) and employ predatory marketing tactics along with Spamming you with pop ups with the intent of scaring you into purchasing one of their more expensive products. It has got better, but it still isn’t the best. It’s basically on par with Mcafee.

Not sure why, but for some people it’s better than my experience with it and for some it’s much worse. The ram and CPU usage varies from person to person. Same with the pop ups. Some swear that they get absolutely none, and some say it makes their PC basically unusable.

Kaspersky or Bitdefender. They are both easily the top 2 AVs. They both have strong free versions if you want to check them out