More on free antivirus software

After my last post on free software, Tarek commented that ClamWin did not provide real time virus scanning and recommended WinPooch, so I uninstalled ClamWin and installed WinPooch to give it a try.  The interface wasn’t any better than ClamWin and had two very annoying issues.  The first was that the tray icon was a pair of eyes which kept looking left and right and it was freaking me out, the second issue was whenever something came up that needed user interaction, the application would bark.  Yes I mean doggy bark and that was very embarassing at work and even at home it would totally scare me when I wasn’t concentrating that my anti virus was barking.  So I looked around again and installed Comodo.  It looks easier to use and I will be using it for a while and decide if I want to keep it or if I will be going back to Google and asking for another anti virus program.