eSet is not fair!

I've been using eSet's "Smart Security" for nearly a year now and I really like it. It protects my family's PCs from virii and malware and other nastiness, doesn't seem to slow us down any, and runs without a hitch. The icon sits in my systray and turns orange if there's a problem. Usually it's just a nice teal color. Right now, though, it's orange.

Did it have a problem with downloading a virus definition update? No.

Did it catch a nasty virus? No.

Did it detect someone 0wnz0rring my PC? No.

It is detecting that there are 14 days or less left on the year license I bought.

That's just not fair. I have become conditioned that Orange Eset icon = bad. Now every time I look at it, it looks orange and that just bothers me.

I think they should be required to just pop up a little notice and go back to blue. After all, there's nothing altogether wrong. I have time left on the license.

I've sent a bunch of people their direction, and I'll still stay by them as the anti-virus and anti-spyware of choice.

But I'm not happy about the "false orange" thing.

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  By Scott Raun, February 24, 2009 @ 12:16 pm

  I've had a similar problem with AVG Free for the past several months - they put in a pre-scan on URLs from my web-browser. I rather violently objected to this - following every link on a Google search results page before I even read it? are you kidding? - and turned it off. And it's been complaining about it ever since.

  I installed it new on a PC since the first of the year - that install doesn't have the web pre-search. I should uninstall it and reinstall it.

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