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

[johngadd at comcast.net]

AAron I have used NOD32 for   months and love it. Many tesh in our area use it

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From: "Hsu, Aaron (NBC Universal)" <aaron.hsu at nbcuni.com> 

> Hi Dave, 
> 
> Unfortunately, most "security" software vendors are moving towards complete 
> "end-point" protection products that incorporate not just anti-virus, but 
> additional responsibilities such as anti-spam, anti-spyware, and firewall roles. 
> The additional code required plus the larger definition database results in 
> larger footprint and slower scan times. Installing just an anti-virus app 
> doesn't make sense anymore as spyware and spam are additional ways of 
> compromising a computer. 
> 
> If you think AVG has bloated, take a look at some competing products (such as 
> NAV or McAfee). I personally don't like AVG 8's GUI, but v7.x's GUI wasn't much 
> better. Performance wise though, AVG is still pretty good - some other 
> end-point products eat a lot more CPU cycles and others just masquerade as 
> security products, eat CPU cycles, and do jack squat other than just displaying 
> a warning banner every 5 minutes! 
> 
> Anyways, I'm looking forward to finding a security suite review that includes 
> performance hit tables. Most reviews focus on how well the suite works, but 
> don't take into consideration how "fat" or "slow" they might be. Hopefully, 
> such a review will be available sometime soon. 
> 
> 73, 
> 
> - Aaron, NN6O 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 6:09 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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