Why do people hate Norton?

The Anti-Virus consumes nearly as many (often more) resources as Windows and doesn't work as well as a lot of others. Sure, Mcaffee is worse. But just about every other one is better.

I use AVG on my Windows boxes.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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Cost - Personal judgement of course, but I would never trust the integrity of my system to a free program. They have absolutely no obligation to you.

And non-free ones don't? Companies trying to make a profit cut corners in quality and security to keep costs down and stick to a schedule. Free programs are written so that a good program exists without the ulterior motive of money. There are software versions where profitable ones turn out to be better (A lot of graphics people prefer Photoshop to GIMP). There are software versions where free ones are better than profitable ones (Eclipse vs. the Visual Studio IDE for one). All-around, there's no clear trend. Both Free Software and For-Profit Software can be good, and both can suck.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

PartitionMagic isn't a Norton Product.

EDIT: DEAR GOD WHYYYYY??????????????

Strangely, I have Partition Magic 8.0 without any Symantec Branding. I have it as PowerQuest.

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