Why I hate Windows: Anti-virus

[yakko]

Does anyone use this anymore? Have all the cool kids gone to Facebook (where I once was, but decided to give it the axe after app-driven poor behavior by family members who'd never act that way in meatspace)? Should I post my question on 4ch... no, I shouldn't. What a terrible place to get actual advice

Comments

Re: *BING* VIRUS DATABASE HAS BEEN UPDATED

[yakko]

Oh yeah... those audio notifications were the very first thing to get turned off. That's the other thing about Avast, too: if I have to keep asking "will this turn off anti-virus and anti-spyware?" when going through all the various types of protection, the software is Doing It Wrong!

I may switch the workbench machine to MSSE and see how it goes, but that machine is not very powerful (Atom).

[spoothbrush]

I use the panda. It does not bother me.

[yakko]

It probably also uses less resources than the typical Windows AV program. ;o)

[damnitnicole]

I use AVG Free and I have no nags. I just set it to do everything automatically and check in on it myself every so often.

I had been using Clamwin, but I didn't want to fuck with anything open source until I was comfortable in Win7. If AVG was irritating me, I'd switch to that.

And yes, I'm still here and still posting!

[yakko]

Luckily for AVG Free, the notification panel only shows up when I go into the interface (to manually update, pause the periodic scan, etc.), so it's not on my shit list like previous versions of AVG (which were VERY resource-intense!)

Hrrmmm... ClamAV... I'll try that on the Parallels VM and see if things improve!

[captain18]

Another vote for Panda. I've switched everything but my laptop over to it -- and that's with AVG only because it's not always tethered TO THE CLOUD.

[jon_helfrich]

I use sophos because mom gets it free from the university. It seems rather nice and lightweight and I haven't had issues with it. I think it might normally cost money though.