What is the most hassle free antivirus program out there?

Here are the hassles I'm trying to avoid:

* high resource usage (Panda Software)

* a virus disabling the antivirus (Norton)

* Internet Explorer dependencies (Mcafee)

* bad tech support (almost every antivirus vendor)

* firewall or antivirus pop-ups (systray notification is fine)

Ideally, the vendor would have forums, user-submitted documentation and other mechanisms short of contacting technical support to solve problems, and a bug reporting form.

If the answer is Trend Micro, will someone please help me find someone who can support it free of charge without my having to call them? The spyware scan seems inconsistent sometimes finding things sometimes not (2 minutes of each other), it has trouble removing TSPY.SN and keeps popping up to tell me it found TSPY.SN creating what is essentially an infinite loop.

When I boot into safe mode, the product fails to work properly.

Ideally, I would want a security suite.

--Sam

What is the most hassle free antivirus program out there?anti virus protection

Norton is pretty hassel free if you've got enough system resources for it not to be a problem. Updates by it self, does the job, and besides if you have a NT OS system resources aren't something you've gotta worry about as much anyway. At least not as much as you do with windows 98, which was a nice OS for the time but basicly screws you over with the OS system resources running out and thus forcing you to restart everytime this happens.

What is the most hassle free antivirus program out there?antivirus

I'd recommend McAfee Security Suite. It is not dependent on IE. It has a real simple User Interface (UI). Norton's UI is not as good as McAfee's but, is a second best. You can turn alerts to the way you want. Standard though, is where a little alert pops up in the system tray and the goes away, (also it does take up about 1/8 of the screen).