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From: "Michael Kairys" <kairys@comcast.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: BitDefender again
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:04:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <h8apvr$fhi$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <h7p5j8$p39$1@ger.gmane.org>

> But can anyone say more about Dave Korn's comment that it could "horribly 
> frag your heap and bork
> your maximum allocatable memory limit"? Can I test this somehow?

Guess I'll just go with it then... :)

In the interim I've tried out a few other "leading" AV products: Avria, 
Nod32, and Kaspersky, and I must say BitDefender is still my first choice. 
My criteria are pretty simplistic though: score well in at least two 
independent tests and otherwise be as invisible and unobtrusive as possible. 



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      reply	other threads:[~2009-09-10 12:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-26  0:10 Michael Kairys
2009-08-26  1:36 ` Christopher Faylor
2009-08-26 11:37   ` Dave Korn
2009-08-26 13:19     ` Michael Kairys
2009-08-26 15:29       ` Wilfried
2009-08-27 13:19         ` Michael Kairys
2009-08-28 15:05           ` Wilfried
2009-08-29  2:08       ` Joe Smith
2009-09-01 13:28         ` Michael Kairys
2009-09-03 19:32           ` Michael Kairys
2009-09-10 12:04             ` Michael Kairys [this message]

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