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> 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. 



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