just remember norton and norton (symantec) corporate are 2 different products here. I dont recommend norton antivirus - for the home user/desktop at all - this was 2003 at the time, since then i havent. I do though use Systemworks 2005 without the AV, just cause of its system maintenance i enjoy. Too bad it dont run on a server platform . If u want do what i did and run all the mainstream ones, from norton, mcaffee, trend, kaspersky etc, and found that Panda Titanium was the only one that when i scanned my system to actually pick up a virus, so with that i tend to use panda titanium on my desktop. It probably wasnt a good method but since then panda has just whacked any virus that tried to come in or pop out of a file when i extracted..im happy with that atm. I do use Symantec Corp on my 2003 server, but i am looking at alternatives...because my work has stopped advising ppl to use the symantec for servers, and go with Trend products - i havent tried the server version yet. and both of these are behind a hardware nat/spi firewall in my router, plus commonsense while browsing the net helps stop unwanted stuff, plus using any virus scanner is better than using none. (/me remembers the nye when he had to format his entire system because he cbf using a virus scanner) there is my opinion