md,

I've had symantec for years and years and have hated it more and more. I actually just paid for a new year subscription last month and all seemed to go well, until one day last week my computer started acting up again and i just decided i had enough.

I uninstalled norton completely and installed instead AVG Free Edition (google it if you are interested).

AVG seems to do the job i want it to (aka right click on something and check it for a virus, autoprotect, etc) but without the huge performance lag of Symantec.

My computer boots up about 3x quicker now than when it had symantec, and i have far fewer runtime errors and "ending program" things when i shut down my computer.

just my 2cents.