Re: AVG 8 free


sherwindu wrote:
Tommy McClure wrote:

Have a buddy in the business, claims AVG 8 free is much faster than
anything else he has.

Any comments?

--
tommy

I don't know about your buddy, but after installing AVG 8, my
computer slowed

down to a crawl. It was using close to 100 per cent cpu, with no
other processes
loaded. I did not have this problem with AVG 7.5 and I am sorry
I upgraded.

Of course Grisoft is going to pull the plug on 7.5 in a few
months anyways.

What made me more frustrated was that using either the AVG
uninstaller or Windows Add/Delete program software, I was
getting errors preventing me from unloading the AVG 8.0. I
just took a hammer to it and stripped out
all
file and registry references. Programs like this are scary.
Now I have to search
for a new replacement for AVG. I am running an 1.3 gig cpu
with 500 meg of
ram and windows 2000. Certainly enough horse power to handle a
anti-virus

program.

see this thread : news:48581a48$0$9836$a726171b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

here are the processes for AVG 7.5 running on my box:
avgamsvr.exe 192k
avgcc.exe 1,320k
avgemc.exe 556k
avgupsvc.exe 528k
total ~ 2,500k

my comparable for Avast 4 free home version
ashDisp. 2,156k
ashMaiSv.exe 2,448k
ashServ.exe 28,300k
ashWebSv.exe 32,356k
aswUpdSv.exe 292k
total ~65,000k

Ernie's number's for same thing
<quote>
Check your settings. I just installed avast
ashWebSv.exe 1,652k
ashDisp.exe 1,300k
ashMaiSv.exe 1,908k
ashServ.exe 11,516k
doesn't even come close to 45mb.<unquote>
total 14,000k

I don't know why there was a difference in his numbers. I run W2K Pro dual
PIIs @500mhz 768mb ram. It is very slow. I am afraid to even try AVG 8 free.
My theory is that the new pcs all have about 2gb ram , 3ghz cpus and the
programmers have left folks with older systems behind. The commercial
security suites are even worse.

--
tommy










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