Thanks for the advice but AVG isn't troublesome enough yet to bother
changing. But I'll keep it in mind.
Chuck Norcutt
khen lim wrote:
> Chuck,Try AVAST and see what you think. I'd be interested to know.
> I have been on AVAST and so far, it hasn't been intrusive and it picks up on
> those horrid viruses that are lurking around these days like Solow. It's
> been serving me very well and I can't see any reason to have to change
> again.
> Like you, I had my fair share of experiences with both McAfee and Norton. Of
> the two, Norton was by far the worse. McAfee was slightly better but both
> were hugely ineffective when it comes to trapping viruses.
>
> My two bobs' worth anyway.
>
> K.
>
>
> 2008/12/17 Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>> I can't tell you about the present products but I gave up on McAfee and
>> Norton Antivirus products about 4 years ago. Slowness was one of their
>> more desirable features. :-)
>>
>> I've been using AVG for the last couple of years but it too seems to be
>> becoming more intrusive. My computer is almost unusable for the first 2
>> or 3 minutes after the first boot of the day because AVG is churning the
>> disk mercilessly. I have no idea what it's doing but it does hundreds
>> of thousands of I/O operations in a short period of time. It then goes
>> quiet but wakes up at odd moments a couple of times/day for a few
>> seconds of thrash the disk. When it finally comes time to do a virus
>> scan for the day it's so resource intensive that the computer is nearly
>> unusable even after I click its lower priority switch. I've given to
>> giving it a start time after I've gone to bed and let it shut down the
>> machine afterwards. Since I can do other things for the first few
>> minutes after the morning boot and can sleep while it's doing the virus
>> scan none of these shenanigans have caused me to think seriously yet
>> about replacing it but it could be getting to that point. I just wish I
>> knew exactly what it was doing and why.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>> John Hudson wrote:
>>> Please excuse this OT question but I am sure somebody will have a quick
>> and
>>> short answer.
>>>
>>> Does the McAfee anti-virus / utility / anti-spam package have a
>> reputation
>>> for slowing down one's computer when being run in "background and always
>>> alert" mode? On the assumption that all such software causes some degree
>> of
>>> slowdown is McAfee worse than the competition?
>>>
>>> Our daughter has recently taken out a 30 day subscription to the McAfee
>>> package and tells me that her computer has really started to slow down
>>> making her feel that McAfee is churning in the background and slowing up
>> the
>>> works.
>>>
>>> jh
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