I used to work for an antivirus vendor and I would not recommend this.<p>The antivirus engine is the same and the only differences are how it&#x27;s packaged. They&#x27;re still shoveling obtrusive, crap software onto your system, just being less obvious about it.<p>The only reason to have Symantec Corporate Edition Antivirus installed on your system is because your company signed a deal to use Cisco VPN &amp; Endpoint Protection and you&#x27;re literally forced to use it.<p>What mostly everyone fails to understand is that antivirus software is not effective as a _preventative_ measure. What they are good at is detecting that you&#x27;re already infected, but they all have terrible rates of false-positives. Nothing out there is much effective at protecting you from 0-day, despite industry claims to the contrary.<p>User training&#x2F;habit modification is the only effective measure at preventing infection (besides being behind a default-deny firewall, but that&#x27;s not something consumers will do). 99.9999% of infections require user interaction (and the ones that don&#x27;t require it become instant international news). Adblockers get you most of the way there and do a better job at prevention than antivirus software.<p>Flaws in AV software have been exploited by rootkits before. AV software is just another point of failure.