Norton is Back.

Strengths:

I run my own tech business, though I use Mem Express for a lot of my parts. Like to keep things local when building for those abroad. I recently read an article in Maximum PC about the latest round up of all the popular AV programs. Stumbled upon NIS 2012 and saw a... WHAT?! 9 AND A KICK *SS Award... no way in hell I thought. I couldn't believe it. My first though was that MaxPC was being paid to put this up. So... I decided, as I do with most things, to see for myself.

Weaknesses:

Its a little too n00b friendly, and does tend to bury settings you want/need to tweak in its overly simplistic menu system, but this is also a double-edged sword. I can deal with it, and its great for people who really need it. It also packs in defrag software for performance, so SSD users be way, its not SSD aware, and it will attempt to defrag your SSD.

Summary:

I can't say enough good things about it. I'm really impressed. No more overzealous, gluttonous, bloated crap-ware. Norton is THE AV to own, a solid price, and rock solid performance, great features, and pr0 worthy and n00b friendly coupled with a great detection rate and very performance conscientious heuristics. I love it. Its sitting right next to my clock on Win7, and its there to stay :D.