I’ve played around with several video editing programs including offerings from Cyberlink, Corel, Adobe, Roxio, and others. They all have pros and cons, but one of my favorites recently has been Cyberlink’s PowerDirector due to it’s intuitive user interface (esp. when compared with Adobe’s offerings) and the fact that it is able to read and write to a wide variety of file formats (more than average). PowerDirector has tons of features–many of which I have not gotten around to testing out yet, but this doesn’t compromise the core operations that you will run on a regular basis–they are fast and stable (others have reported crashes, but I haven’t had any issues yet).

I installed this on my netbook. Netbooks’ are small, light-weight and have fabulously long battery life but this comes at the expense of computational power–this isn’t the machine you use for if multi-tasking is what you have in mind. As such, I didn’t want an AV suite that was going to hog all my resources, yet I wanted active, reliable security. I decided to give this product a whirl since it was advertised as being light weight due to using Cloud computing technology.

Well, I’d tried all I could to get this to work on W8 or W7, it simply won’t install. Couldnt install on W8 beta, nor Win7 but DID get it on a fresh install of XP with SP3. Scan time of 2TB drive, all files 700MB-2GB each, terrible 45 minutes scan time. Uninstallation? FORGET IT. Took me an hour deleting everything I could find left over in the registry after uninstall.

Just like my title says, Symantec is the most awful AV software around. You’d think with all their R&D they would have automatic updates set to more than once a week by default, and actually fix the problems their software has had for the last ten years. NOD32 blows this out of the water, uses no noticeable resources, and scans 300GB of data in eight minutes. It also updates continually and has a far greater ability to spot patterns of malicious code that are not in virii definitions yet compared to Symantec.

Had a VERY hard time installing this on a WinXP machine - even after a fresh OS install with SP3 installed. Once I’d finally discovered what the conflict was - I’m still unsure but I’d ripped a disk image and installed on a virtual drive, then installed it from that, it worked - scan time of 2TB drive 18m30s all file sizes 700MB-2GB each, not bad. Tried copying a malicious cookie used in an XSS attack to the drive, it wouldnt let me, but would NOT tell me why.

I only threw a few virii at this product. I renamed bagel to a text file. It caught it! I tried another 0-day explot on it, and um…it caught it AFTER I infected the system,. removal was 100% but Windows still had to be reloaded (easiest way to fix). I’m biased because I have had great success with NOD32 and I really tried things I knew bitD wouldnt catch. Nothing is 100% effective, you still need to be active in catching these virii and exploits yourself.

The coverage was great…I think…It didn’t see any virii in 6 months of light net use. It uses about 100MB of ram after a while on WinXP Pro 32b, and 150MB or more during a complete scan. Normally it runs under 64MB of ram.

I use it.

it is what it says it is.

I am glad amazon has this program.