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

[Dave 'Doc' Corio]

    The old version is not running, and I don't have any scans scheduled 
- I prefer to do them manually. This is on a Core 2 Duo processor, also 
with 2G of RAM. Any time I bring up Task Manager, the avgrsx.exe shows 
the highest memory usage with the exception of Firefox. The worst part 
is that it will not allow me to shut it down. If I could turn it off I'd 
at least be able to remove it when I run DXLabs, but even with AVG 
stopped, I still cannot stop that task.

73
Dave
KB3MOW


JV wrote:
>     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 
>>
>>     
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