> We stopped using Avast a while back, as I got tired of uninstalling all the bloatware
> that my not-as-computer-literate extended family managed to install every time Avast
> updated itself.
Not sure what you mean by bloatware, I don't remember seeing any adware/spyware tagging along with the download/install process for Avast. Unless you mean all the new "features"/"optimizers" they seem to add with each new release - but I don't see any "advertising partners"...
> Bitdefender has a free version that works the way Avast used to: lightweight, no
> questions, no bloatware, no bullshit. -JW
Oh! If Bitdefender has a free version, then it's probably the way to go right now. The pay versions always score really high in terms of resource-friendliness, etc.
http://www.bitdefender.com/solutions/free.html
As for me, I recently found out that a family member is only using two seats out of their three-seat Norton 360 subscription ($69.99/yr or so doesn't look so bad when you consider it protects up to three computers/devices), so I might go that route for the time being instead.
- Stiletto
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