I've continued to use it because it did a great job protecting my systems.
Lately they have a popup pushing to purchase the commercial version of their product. The popup has always been there, just not as often and not as annoying, and never destructive . . . until now.
I've often joked that antivirus companies create the viruses to justify their product.
It's TRUE.
A week ago I got home and my wife wanted me to print a one page document. Word was running and my bazaar mule was on in EQ, but the computer was lagging like crazy.
I pulled up the task manager and my CPU was being hammered at 100%. There were 16 copies of the popup program (IMPGUI.exe) each pushing more than 5% on the CPU. I deleted them all. Could not delete the program. So I went to the web for suggestions, tried and failed.
One said use the virus software itself to tag them as suspicious software and send them to quarantine - failed.
Another suggested to block them thru administrator settings - fail.
This morning I pulled up the task manager (after deleting two copies of it yesterday):
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