What is better Norton or McAfee for anti-virus?

Answer 1

I have used both and prefer McAfee. The fact that it comes as part of the package with Comcast broadband is part of it. But it is also easier to use and it updates itself constantly without any help from me. I found that Norton interfered with certain functions and did not give you any options for viruses once it did find one except to delete the file. You'll get a lot of different answers here. Take the good advice and leave the rest. They are each good. McAfee is better in my estimation.

Answer 2

Depends who you ask. As they say in the car business, your mileage may vary. In the anti-virus world, that's VERY true.

Anymore, there are more and more people who don't care for either Norton OR McAfee and instead use a different a-v such as AVG or Trend Micro. Those are both good ones. I use Norton at home, but I like using an online Trend Micro scan as a second opinion if I'm cleaning an active infection.

I've never had any good luck with McAfee, but like I said before, mileage can vary widely with anti-virus solutions.

Answer 3

if you want to get a paid one buy norton but it makes your computer go slower and costs more and pretty much the same a mcafee but do not get frre one if your really into buying one because free isn't always good because if it was good like norton, norton wouldnt sell anything and i also have experience that no free antivirus product has a good virus database as norton or mcafee i use mcafee just but mcafee

Answer 4

Depends who you ask, I've used both. Norton is very well supported but tends to bog down older systems but it catches most problems. Mcafee is also very good. I switched years ago to Norton as it blends better with an Internet secuity suite but Mcafee may have a similar product now.

Answer 5

Norton is a great Virus scanning protector, however, it quarantines the virus and saves it to your computer.
Mcafee is a great virus protector and when it locates the virus it quarantines and gives the option to delete, repair, or restore.
If you choose option delete it will permanently be removed from your PC.
My recommendation, buy a MAC, after a while you will reject PC because there a billions of viruses and trojans, ads, spyware, and worms built for PC, while MAC has a substantially smaller amount of viruses written to date, and is designed to NEVER crash, and runs VERY fast all the time! Even when things get very cluttered, and it does not run on registry so there is no files downloading in the background and running without your permission and using up your memory!
MAC is your best choice for a Personal Computer.
Also Mac eliminates your need for spybot, Adaware, and registry cleaners, and has a virus program designed specifically for it. My recommendation get the MAC WITHOUT windows, use ONLY MAC OSX and updated MAC OS's!

Answer 6

Statistically McAfee since it causes a bit less problems with the operating system than Norton, however, I would recommend getting something other than those two. Other choices include AVG, or PC-Cillian.

Answer 7

Norton

Answer 8

Neither. AVG Antivirus has worked for me better then Norton and McAfee and they have a free version that is fully functional and the virus definitions are continuesly updated.

Answer 9

I have used both systems but I now stick with Mcafee.

Norton is notoriously hard to uninstall completely and I do like some of the extra features woth Mcafee such as the system clean

Answer 10

That's like asking someone if Ford is better than Chevy.
Honestly, use what you want.....Norton, McAfee,Trend Micro-Pc-cillin, & CA (formerly Computer Associates) are good, & will protect your computer.....Even Microsoft has an antivirus program.
I've used them all, & like CA.