Security programs
I am back in trouble again here folks.
Please give the old man some advice. When my computer died I also lost my Norton security program. Now I have to get another one and I have heard a lot of talk about it being a resource hog. What is in our collective best judgments the best software program for me to be looking at. I was going to go back to Norton but a having second thoughts! The learning curve on this windows 8 us awful because they did away with so many familiar features that I am basically starting over again.
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I'm not a fan of Norton to be honest. I've used the free versions of AVG and Microsoft Security Essentials. No problems with those. Malwarebytes is a good one to have around. Free also.
I think on Windows 8 you have Windows Defender built in. I don't know much about it. You'd have to disable that I do believe to run a third party antivirus. You'd have to do some research to find out how good Defender is but I'm guessing some other anti virus might be a better thing. Same with Anti Malware.
Good luck.
Same thought here Tsula. Norton pretty much isn't worth having (certainly not worth paying for). I've got a Windows 7 OS and run Security Essentials. It does a good job. If a problem slips through, I run Malwarebytes. Both can be downloaded for free and both do what's needed.
Norton is "Bloatware". I've been running " Microsoft Security Essentials " (free) for years. Never had a problem with it. It's light on your memory usage.
I don't like Norton much. There is a free program that works great, I have had it on my computers for a long while now and I have no problem. It's Microsoft Security Essentials. Go to Google and type this in, you download it FREE and you never pay for it. It's a great program. There is a website for a numbe of free items and that is where I found this.
FreeStuff.com. Again Google will help you find the MSE and then you can find all kinds of other things.
I should have read the other posts. 
Thanks Debora for your thoughts. I have loaded MS Essentials and all the other free ones I could find. I woke up day before yesterday to find that I had yet another problem created by this horror of a program. When I bought the computer it came loaded with W8 and I am stuck with that. I also figured that I would spring for the updated version of the Office Suite. I bought it, brought it home, and loaded it without so much as a squeak. Ran like a top for 2 days and then w8 decided that it didn't recognize it anymore and deleted it from my system without so much as a thank you and it was gone. For the last 2 days, I have been screaming bloody murder at anyone and everyone representing MS. It seems that they downloaded to me a pre release version but it stuck. I finally this afternoon heard from them telling me to go into the program and download it again and so I now have, I hope, the latest and greatest version of MS Office! Next up is how to find a way to stop having to sign into each and every program each and every time I want to go into one. I am not getting the old time alerts that I have had in the past whenever an email came here. I'm sorry that I have not been here as much as I would like but you folks have been very generous with your advice and I wanted you to know how much I appreciate it! Tsula
tsula, don't over do it. You only need two. No more.
Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebytes.
Don't download a bunch of stuff you don't need. If you do they fight each other and they are all trying to do the same job.
Thanks, Grump. I really try not to get too paranoid over the use of securityprograms but old habit die hard around here. This window's 8 program with its hundreds of icons floating roundis driving me nuts. Right now I am trying to find a wayto restore the original Icons for Mail which I deleted because I didn't know that it controlled how I set up my email accounts. I'm also trying to find a way to stop the system from erasing all of my passwords and forcing me to sign in every time I visit different sites. Being the original dummy this has become bothersome instead of the fun I had on y old XP Pro!
Be well! Tsuls