Who is better with Internet Security - Ad-Aware or Norton?

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After spending 20+ years in IT/PC repair, I have found that no one software package can catch every type of malware. I can't even count the number of people that have come into the shop and said "I ran Norton on it and it's clean". Then I run ad-aware on it and find dozens of infections.

It's hard to explain why this is, because the line between a virus and a keylogger for example, have become blurred.

I never recommend Norton if the user wants to install the suite, for performance reasons, as well as a relatively poor track record of catching viruses. One of the things that Norton has going for it is an exceptional intrusion detection/prevention feature.

I sometimes run multiple virus packages on the same drive just to see what each one misses, which helps me to find the more accurate. This isn't a full study, but gives me an idea which does a better job.

When a customer comes in to my shop with virus problems, I run the following, in this order(all of these are completely free):

1) AVG-free

2) Lavasoft Ad-Aware

3) Spybot search and destroy

I recommend that you download, install, and run all three. Each has a resident scanner that will catch malware on the fly, and take a miniscule amount of system resources.

Yes change to Ad-ware as norton is not up to the task,you proved it to your self norton=0 ad-ware=5 so going on the facts change I too have found norton is lacking and you dont get any back up from norton

Just between the two, I trust more on Norton, but hold your horses! Before you make a judgement, there can always be false-positives. If you can find the location of the suspected files, upload each one of them to http://www.virustotal.com./

See what antivirus programs would say.

I use AVG free and it works great and it doesn't slow down the computer or run when you don't want it too. Personally i hate norton and ive never heard of Ad-Aware.

Neither! I'm not a fan of both.

In my opinion the best internet security is Nod32. Its lightweight, fast scans, great detection rates and beats the other competition!

i don't use any of that stuff but i keep all my important info or anything i dont wanna lose on an external hard drive and i have a windows disk so i can reprogram my computer if i ever had to but so far no problem been doing it for 5 years now

Norton is better, but it's always best to have maleware bytes also to pick up anything your antiviruses dont pick up.