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

[JV]

    I have DXBase, Dxlab Programs, N1MM Logger, etc in the two Dells at the
ham station. I see no slow up. I do have AVG schedule for 0200AM. I would
think if AVG is running at the same time as other programs, there would be a
slow up. The Dells have 2Gb of memory and the OS is XP.
    No Vista here. Talk about a memory hog!!! 
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-------Original Message------- 
 
From: Brian K. Gaskamp 
Date: 6/8/2008 4:34:53 PM 
To: Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, communications, or
experimenting 
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] AVG Anti-Virus 8.0 - Memory hog? 
 
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 
>