Panda quits, changes lingo, news at 11

Today, when I started my computer at work, Panda Security Anti-Virus went postal :/

I've been testing it for about three years, and being that it's somewhat anthropomorphic in name, I was rooting for it. Despite a few minor issues, it's been pretty dependable... until today. Firstly, it went completely Spanish and wouldn't let me set it back to English. ;P .... Also, it refused to start or run properly.

I am wondering if this has anything to do with the main company completely updating its base verion to 2.0 within the last week or so.

In fact, the New Programs listing showed that it was listed as a new program, so it must have auto-updated to 2.0 and lost functionality. Another case of one of the modern day worst epidemics: POOR FIELD TESTING BEFORE RELEASE. I see this all the time in my business, and it's a sad testimony to the current mindset in much of technology.

Summarizing, I can no longer recommend Panda as an anti-virus option -_-

The newly updated list is:
1) MSE
2) AVG
3) TrendMicro

The following are secondary options:
4) Avira
5) Avast
6) Comodo
7) eSet

For sheer bloat and slowness, I do not recommend
8) McAfee
9) Kaspersky

One more note.... Norton had also become an unwieldy behemoth over the last decade, but the last installation I encountered on a Win7 intel-i7 machine seemed to handle it quite well, so perhaps hardware has finally caught up to match Norton on a manageable level once again, so I will half-recommend Norton if this trend continues.

Best Wishes, and compute safely :>