Best Anti-Virus System

[caravel]

I think it's more the performance overhead on some Anti-Virus programs than their virus combating qualities. Norton is a bit of a memory hog in all honesty and its performance penalties are especially noticeable on my lower mid-range laptop. I probably would uninstall it, but both my PCs came with it pre-installed with a one year subscription. I don't really want to waste two free licences on an otherwise commercial product.

There is nothing to waste as Norton is basically a crap product. You should uninstall it and not waste months or years with degraded performance.

The zero-cost is always a plus,but I'd had AVG in the past (when I was picking up stray wireless signals) and when I finally got a wireless router and regular net access on my notebook,it gave me a partial incompatability reading.

What is a "partial incompatibility reading"?

Currently,I'm using Ad-Aware Free,but it's not doing as good a job as I'd hoped. I have a trial of another program that I downloaded a week or so ago,and it's always picking up infections that Ad-Aware is missing.

This is not an anti virus program, it is an anti spyware program and not a very good one.

I'm currently of the opinion that the free anti-virus programs aren't so good.

And what do you base that on? I'm of the opinion that AVG is easily one of the best Anti-Virus programs out there and is better than both Norton and McAfee in almost every way possible.