From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11902 invoked by alias); 10 Sep 2009 12:04:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 11629 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Sep 2009 12:04:42 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from lo.gmane.org (HELO lo.gmane.org) (80.91.229.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:04:36 +0000 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MliOA-0004BQ-4L for cygwin@cygwin.com; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:04:34 +0200 Received: from c-68-40-183-165.hsd1.mi.comcast.net ([68.40.183.165]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:04:34 +0200 Received: from kairys by c-68-40-183-165.hsd1.mi.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:04:34 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Michael Kairys" Subject: Re: BitDefender again Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:04:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <20090826013626.GC9672@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4A9521B7.2030806@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-09/txt/msg00227.txt.bz2 > 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. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple