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Originally Posted by babymaker
Use avast! its free and great and updates a few times a day  |
I used Avast for quite awhile, but its turning into a resource hog. Massive button in the Windows Sidebar (which I use for currency exchange, international time, and local weather), constant FUCKING BUY AN UPGRADE ALREADY!!! reminders, and a horrendous false-positive record.
Avast is going the way of AVG - useless. If you actually buy the Avast security suite, its even worse. Might as well buy Norton. Or McAfee. Garbage built to make you pay for shit you don't actually need.
Microsoft will, I'm sure, be refining their product (I get too many false positive with it right now), Kaspersky is amazing (but I cannot tolerate the Sidebar intusion). I've settled on Panda Cloud.
Tiny footprint, few false positives. I almost can't tell Panda is running - but it doesn't miss a thing. Its updated in real time 24 hours a day. No downloads, no (or very, very few) updates. Your machine will not slow down when it scans. A stunning product that will only get better.
Hey bada-boom, bada-bing.