Maybe read the whole article rather than just the mindset gossip of one employee who was probably chastised. You made it clear in the past you are a genuine Norton Fan. Update - 12 October Microsoft has issued the following statement in response to the publication of this article: "We are committed to protecting our customers, and our Microsoft antimalware solutions provide strong, comprehensive defence against malicious code and attacks. We believe in these products and are proud of the protection capabilities we provide to well over 150 million computers worldwide." Here is a link that might be useful: cnnMoney - McAfee ... in Canada This post was edited by mikie on Thu, Jan 9, 14 at 2:58

I have been thinking a little more about this. As many know I live in rural America and still have to connect with an antique DUN. Because of this connection I have every application configured "not" to automatically update or check for updates. This protocol allows me to use the maximum connectiion speed available for my focused tasking. Of course, the down side is I have to do updates manually. Since the last AVG upgrade to the current version I have found that it will regularly update on its own while I am surfing even though its configured not to. I wonder if AVG is pinging home causing it to update. If I am correct this could be the answer to your concern. DA

Well, I believe that they are exceptional, or I wouldn't have used them, but I am expecting that TM Internet Security is going to be doing the same things for me that those other programs would have. In fact, on its first scan, it did find 112 things to fix, which Malwarebytes hadn't found, in spite of my having had it do a scan every morning.

yes most definitely the best protection you can have is layered protection never put all your eggs in one basket! Kaspersky is a fine antivirus program. the other two you mentioned are antimalware programs.