The temperature outside is 33°C and sweat rolls off me in large, round beads, as I am encoding XviD files inside a Virtual PC installation of Windows XP, since WinVista and Gordian Knot failed to play nice with each other.
anyway, the birds are singing, the front panel case fan is making strange noises and I feel like making a few comments about the current state of anti-virus software. My god, what the hell happened? WinVista aside, it seems that every major A/V program has become a fascist pain in the ass.
Since both Kaspersky 6 and 7 refused to install due to some InstallShield bullshit (despite all the workarounds from their knowledge base), I cautiously tried running Norton 360 and then quickly got rid of it, since it tried to integrate itself into every single facet of windows with its annoying, "made for idiots" interface.
Next, I gave McAfee a go, and came to regret it soon afterwards, since it turned out to be a tyrannical utility that takes ages to configure, does not allow the on-access scanner to be turned off on the fly without a special patch, and deletes files without the user's approval during on-demand scans.
Finally, after musing about Matthew's recent choice of the Slovak-made Eset NOD32, I have uninstalled McAfee and installed NOD32 in one fell swoop. What a change occurred before my eyes, ladies and gentlemen, for before me appeared a program with short loading time and a decent memory footprint, and I have beheld an anti-virus that did what I told it to do.
True, NOD32 is still a little rough around the edges in the GUI department, but there will be time to improve that later. The important thing is that there is finally a contender on the market that gets the job done and does not piss me the hell off. Get the torrent here. ;)
Don't you just love NOD32?? I know I do, at least it doesn't bog everything down when it scan, you can actually do work and not notice it at all
Damn right, man. I'm tired of the A/V heavyweights and all their resource hogging.
Fucken NOD32 is the man. This is the first virus shit I amused with. I am glad it's there and it doesn't bother me. And mind you, I have a 667 MHz CPU. I am well amused. I only have to temporarily disable the hourly update so it doesn't steal resources. Otherwise it only makes itself known during installations while it scans every single file being installed and slows down the entire process. Though, for what it's doing, it is surprisingly quick.
I'm very glad that your new anti-virus is like some sort of obedient mail-order bride. Now if only it gave you blowjobs and cooked for you...would you ever have to leave the house? ;)