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I installed the program a few days ago. This program seemed to spot a number of threats that my previous program (from Computer Associates) seems to have missed. So, though I can't speak definitively about it's virus spotting ability, it seems like it's pretty good.

There are a few things about it I don't like. First of all, a few weeks back I installed the non-pro edition of this software, and it caused quite a headache. It seems as though the software was configured to check floppy drives, cd drives etc. And when there wasn't a floppy to be found, the whole thing just crapped out. It took a number of safe mode restarts for me to figure out what was going on and get rid of the software. I don't know why, but I decided to take a chance on this Pro edition. Although this one can check removable drives, it doesn't seem to hang when there is no media. Whew!

Another thing I don't like about it, is that I don't feel confident that it is actually doing the removal/quarantine. I set it to automatically delete nasty files, and I can see in the log that it found some, but nothing in the log indicates that they were deleted. Finally, I don't have much to compare it against, but I'd say its scans are pretty slow. My computer has about 48Gig of files, and the full system scan (it's a P3 500Mhz) took about 24 hours of dedicated time. It actually took more time because every once in a while it would come across a password protected file (Kazaa shop files, I think) and it would stop and wait for user input. I didn't see any setting to have it automatically skip the files without prompting. That was pretty annoying. Overall, I'd say I'm not too impressed with it.

Added: April 5th 2005

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