I have a HP - window's 7 home premium - 64-bit laptop. I have a free trial with Norton security and I just realized that the window's defender and window's firewall was not running together with Norton. Witch one is better for my computer at this time. Please reply back to amberfgraham@hotmail.com

"Amberfgraham" wrote in message news:a22ea336-847b-4400-ba7b-48101274f06d... I have a HP - window's 7 home premium - 64-bit laptop. I have a free trial with Norton security and I just realized that the window's defender and window's firewall was not running together with Norton. Witch one is better for my computer at this time. Norton will disable the Windows Firewall and Defender - this is quite normal, and many other 'Security Suites' will do the same. Personally I wouldn't use Norton - it's bloated and ineffective, and tends to lead to PEBCAK errors. If you decide not to use it, you MUST uninstall if using the inbuilt uninstall routine, and then use the Norton Removal Tool to get rid of the remaining dross it leaves behind. Use the Norton Removal tool - http://us.norton.com/support/kb/web_view.jsp?wv_type=public_web&docurl=20080710133834EN&ln=en_US The trick is to find an anti-virus which you feel comfortable with - the Windows Firewall is perfectly good enough for 99.99% of users. If you install Microsoft Security Essentials, it's good enough for 99% of users - it's not the 'best', but then that changes with every user and every computer. It's relatively low on resource-use, and pretty good on detection and cleanup. Whatever AV you use, you should also have an on-demand malware scanner - I suggest MalwareBytes Anti-Malware (www.malwarebytes.org) which is about the best on the market and has a free option (do NOT enable the Real-Time Protection module - it may conflict with your normal AV) HTH -- Noel Paton | Nil Carborundum Illegitemi | CrashFixPC | The Three-toed Sloth