norton and windows defender

[mandimoo2]

do they do the same? is one better? new laptop came with norton trial subscription, but i clicked on the windows defender and now a defender logo has appeared alongside my norton logo and im worried they will interfere with each other. any advice please?

[vehelpfulguy]

Well Norton is not just one product so it depends what your trial is for.

There is Norton anti-virus, but there is also Norton Internet Security which does a whole range of things.

Windows Defenders is explained here

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spywa re/software/default.mspx

I do not use it, but it mainly seems to be an anti-spyware program.