It seems like there are far more people working in the antivirus sector, writing all kinds of different software, so the quality of code has gone done. One exam

It seems like there are far more people working in the antivirus sector, writing all kinds of different software, so the quality of code has gone done. One example is AV companies writing things like browser plugins that hog memory, or make browsing unusable slow. Another thing to think about is that tons of features that were never added before, are in the products now. Basically being pushed by management because more features = more sales, even if it ends up bloating the product. I remember a few years ago when we were acquired and had to switch AV vendors to McAfee, it made our oldest group of hardware basically unusable (and these were basically kiosk-type machines). The application we were using required IE so we couldn't replace them with Linux machines either.