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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why is Norton hated so much? What makes an antivirus/antimalware program good or bad anyway?

Follow up questions: Given it's so notoriously bad for some reason, how come sales reps at electronics stores push it so hard?

And also, what's the best antimalware software?

Edit: Oops, sorry, I just found a previous question about Norton. I *did* search for it so tbh I'm not sure what's going on there. Consider the first question redundant then :)
gpt
Nobody likes Norton because it is a resource hog that slows your computer down. It doesn't effectivly do it's job. Norton's CEO even admits that it only gets 40% of viruses at best. So why would people pay outrageous for a program that slows down their computer, and only does less than half the job. Stick with Microsoft Essentials; it is free and makes sense that Microsoft would know the in's and out's of their own code better than some 3rd party like norton. Norton is a complete waste of money.