NortonLifeLock to Buy Avast for as Much as $8.6 Billion
Seems to be good for the consumer providing there is a free product. Avast may have lost market after the accusation last year of sharing user data with marketers.
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Just finished a reinstall of Windows 10, and I was wondering what the peanut gallery thought of these two programs.
I uninstalled the Norton Security about a month ago while chasing my OS crashing issues. (Norton Security wasn't my problem), but...
Soo, I got the ''black screen with mouse cursor'' log-in error yesterday. Should have checked here first, but I ended-up ''reset this pc, keeping files''. This got me back into Win10, but activation was all jakked-up; since my pre-release tech...
Try them free for 30 days. Norton Security ask an email and a password to send the product key validation. Also, you need the email and the password to complete the installation.
Norton Utilities won't ask anything. You'll be ask to reboot:...
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