I wrote about problems with AVG 8. According to “Windows Vista Annoyances” (I really trust the O’Reilly series and annoyances.org), AVG is “a popular but poor-performing solution”. AVG 8 – yikes…
Between killing AVG and getting the Vista book, we installed Avira which is termed “frequent updates, but only average detection rates”. Ohhhkay…
Avast – “slick interface and a good feature set”. So that’s what I’m using now. One minor annoyance – it has a voice announcement after updating the virus database. I can live with that; it’s better than a persistent balloon to close.
YMMV