I have Comcast internet and they use to offer McAfee for free to the customers, but last year they dropped McAfee and picked up Norton. Ever since my computer has went from crap to… well... unholyness, but I've put up with it for well over half a year cause I always considered it better than not having any anti-virus software at all.
But it's just getting too bad lately, so much so if I leave my computer idle for 5 minutes, it'll take 10 minutes for it to unfreeze because Norton was running "background tastes". I can't afford to buy McAfee so I'm wondering what you guys consider the best free anti-virus and firewall software. Before McAfee and Norton I used AVG, but I forget if it offers firewall support.
I've also heard horror stories for years about trying to fully remove Norton from your system...