I once used Norton's tools to remove an infection from a machine, when nothing else would work. Nowadays I would of course get the data off and wipe the machine

I once used Norton's tools to remove an infection from a machine, when nothing else would work. Nowadays I would of course get the data off and wipe the machine, but this was when I was younger and storage was not so cheap and plentiful as it is now. They have definitely done some small measure of good in securing the Windows ecosystem, and in the first half of the last decade, they did far more than Microsoft.