I’m sick of it. Enough with the shoddy software. Today I shall be reporting my experiences evaluating Panda Software’s Titanium anti-virus:

Installation crapped out, ‘Pure virtual function call’ error. Made my machine reboot twice, then immediately proclaimed that the evaluation had expired, about 30 seconds after I’d installed it for the first time. Unacceptable.

While I’m on the subject, Norton AntiVirus 2006 should also be avoided like the plague. A friend of mine purchased it, and it proceeded to completely hose his system. The machine would take over 2 minutes longer to boot than before. Excel wouldn’t even start. It took me (someone considered to know a little about computers) nearly an hour to uninstall it. It finally took two safe mode reboots, shutting down (and disabling) half the windows services and two attempts at running the uninstaller to remove that little piece of scumware.