Norton Antivirus 10 worth it?

A friend of mine has offered to lend me a copy of his Norton AntiVirus version 10. My question is, is it worth it? i owned version 9 on my previous 12" PB and it was even a nightmare keeping it at arms lenght but i'm thinking maybe they improved version 10 any ideas?

This fall, Macworld did a review of Norton Antivirus 10, and gave it pretty good marks. They had previously reviewed Norton 9, and given it lower marks.
FWIW, I use ClamXAv, which is free, but requests a donation (which I did). I have it do a weekly scan, and so far it's only found problems in my mail, ie, Windows virus and phishing. I would recommend it, as it works well.

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