My wife and I are avid Eset customers and have been using their
Smart Security program for about 6 months or so.
It's not system resource intensive - it runs on half of what Trend Micro's PcCillin required, and uses about 1/4 what Symantec's Norton Antivirus bogged us down with. There are no annoying pop ups, nothing. It just runs and keeps the system clean.
Glad to hear the "Antivirus" was successfully removed. It sounds like something that requires hours to be able to get through and clean up.
Speaking of Windows and computer viruses, I tried to delete the files for IE7.
10 seconds later, they came right back!
