I used McAfee's suite once because I had to (corporate environment). It popped up all the time wanting this or that. It relied on ActiveX for a lot of what it

I used McAfee's suite once because I had to (corporate environment). It popped up all the time wanting this or that. It relied on ActiveX for a lot of what it did. Updates to it failed if your system default browser was set to something other than Internet Explorer. I'm guessing it's moved on since then, but it lost my trust. I've had to use Norton's suite before too and it had similar reliability issues. Since using Security Essentials / Defender on Win7 and later it just works and never needs any hand-holding.