[Ham-Computers] AVG Anti-Virus 8.0 - Memory hog?

[Brian K. Gaskamp]

I have not noticed anything out of the ordinary.
Now I don't have any ham radio programs on the computer with AVG on it, but 
I have not noticed anything unusual.

Brian
KA5BKG
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave 'Doc' Corio" <dcorio at zitomedia.net>
To: <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 8:08 PM
Subject: [Ham-Computers] AVG Anti-Virus 8.0 - Memory hog?


>    Has anyone else noticed that this new version of AVG Free takes up a 
> whole lot of memory? I noticed my RTTY program slowing down a lot just 
> now, so I pulled up the Task Manager, and it shows avgrsx.exe with 36,452K 
> of memory usage. That's more than explorer.exe and svchost.exe combined! 
> Even worse, I can't end that process. Even with AVG terminated, that part 
> of it remains running, and refuses to shut down.
>
>    If this is normal for AVG, maybe I need to look into a different 
> anti-virus program. What seems to be the consensus  of a good FREE 
> antivirus program? ( and yes, I know this is like asking which is better, 
> Ford or Chevy)
>
>
> Tnx es 73
> Dave
> KB3MOW
>
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