The best thing is that it’s free and you don’t have to provide an email to download it or register anything and it does not expire after a year. These are good points, believe it or know.

Why wouldn't I believe that free and not expiring is good? :D

Well, it's good for me; I'm not sure how good the existing security vendors will think it is. I wonder if they'll make some anti-competitive claims about that.

Every time you provide your email you are getting more spam, more chances of getting spywares, etc, etc.

That's a questionable statement. The only way providing your E-mail address to a reputable company (one that doesn't sell them) will get you more spam is if they get hacked and get their E-mail lists/address books stolen.

But you can do what I do and get your own domain (they're cheap) and set up E-mail forwarding. I give each Web site that I register at or each company that I deal with their own unique E-mail address (for example, amazon@example.com and mobilitysite@example.com) and forward them to my main address. If I start getting spam on one, I block it (possibly after giving them a different E-mail address).

I've done that since 2003 or so and rarely get more than a few spam messages per week (often zero).

Steve

Do you need to uninstall Norton just to try this, or can you simply TURN OFF Norton, try Essentials, and then uninstall Norton laterif you want to switch?