The Watering Hole

http://www.pcworld.com/article/194776/mcafee_error_little_relief_in_sight.html

This "error" published by Mcafee as an antivirus update, which then began to erroneously mark the file "svchost.exe" as a virus, and attempt to clean it, crippled some 30 computers at my work yesterday.  If you delete svchost.exe enough times, eventually you lose your networking capability, your graphics, and at some point your system goes into constant reboot.  They published an antivirus update that was actually more devastating than most viruses!

That a company as big as Mcafee published this crapware just speaks to how shoddy they are. Stick with the small vendors. Fuck Mcafee.

I wouldn't put Norton in their catagory.

True.  Norton is even worse!  ;)

Yeah we had the issue state wide at the school level.  My computer was saved but most people had to shut the networks down.  That's just total toolery.

Norton just cuts about 1/3 of your performance.  I remember the day about 3 years ago that our Norton expired at work and I put AVG Free on my laptop instead.  It was CLEARLY faster at everything.  

I use Norton 360 and I haven't noticed any slow down at all. And, no viruses to date.