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Malware sucks, Anti-Malware sucks nearly as bad.

As for what it sucks, that would be system performance. It had been a long time since I’ve used Anti-Virus software on my Windows system, I hadn’t realized how bad the performance issue had gotten until I saw the benchmarks. I’d had more trouble with the Anti-Virus software itself than it could have possibly saved me, since well, it never found anything.

Part of the problem is that for quite a while now Spyware has been much more of a problem than conventional viruses, but the big boys like Norton and MacAfee have been slow to adjust and pick this up. Things are starting to change in that regard, but that leaves the issue of speed. More…