Unfortunately, most security suites are resource hogs, and Norton is one of the worstest and baddest... It used to be good, but a bit slow. Nowadays, it leaves you with a commodore 64 to do your work (or games), while hogging the rest for itself, if you got something less than cutting edge hardware.

I recently got some introductory stuff on a "security suite on a stick" from the norwegian distributor. This looks promising, but I haven't gotten around to test it. It's basically a USB stick with a hardened linux computer on it running a security suite that will commandeer your network connections and insert itself as a security layer between you and the 'net. Very neat looking. It comes in two flavours - one enterprise version with management and VPN functionality, and one "personal" version without management and VPN and a few dollars less.

http://www.yoggie.com/

Johan-Kr