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I've been using norton for years with very few problems. I've recently had an issue with my machine and norton won't run. I noticed that w/o norton there is quite a bit of memory available that it used to be using.

So I was thinking about trying to find a good AV program that does just that. I don't need all the extras and I'm not worried about paying for it. I just want a good strong AV program that stops viruses.

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CingularDuality

I've heard good things about the free version of AVG: http://www.grisoft.com/doc/289/lng/us/tpl/tpl01

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I use that particular free version of AVG. Haven't had any problems with it so far.

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I like AntiVir from www.free-av.com.

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panda is good...gotta pay for it. small resource usage
avg is great and its free.
i switch a couple years ago when i relized norton was a hog.

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USN_Squid

I quit Norton for this very same reason, and others, and have been using AVG for a few months trouble free.

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CingularDuality

I think I'm going to be doing the same and for the same reason...

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i love AVG free, no problems, pretty light

Wyzcrak

I used AVG in the past and have since switched to avast after AVG allowed a rather nasty something into my mother's machine some time back.

http://www.avast.com/

I know not enough about either to comment further, really.

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I use it also, really good program!

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I recommend AntiVir XP to all my customers. It is quite good and doesn't take up alot of resources.

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TheFeniX

The most CPU friendly version of anti-virus I had seen was Symantec Corporate Edition AV 8.x and 9.x. Then 10.0 came out and it seems to be taking the same route as Norton. I hope they patched the later releases.

I use AVG free at home and have been very satisfied with it's performance. Even when scanning, I notice no large latency. At least not enough to affect me browsing the web or editing some small graphics.

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JME.Fidelity

AVG is a great program. But personally I dont like real time virus protection.

Every so often I check my computer with TrendMicro's Housecall free online virus scanner. Works great

asch

So I'm in the process of rebuilding my HD and have decided to go with AVG as my anti-virus program. I'm looking at task manager and see that there are four programs running in task manager that are eating up a lot of memory.

avgamsvr.exe 6.9MB
avgcc.exe 5.3MB
avgemc.exe 6.1MB
avgupsvc.exe 2.9MB

That's approximately 21.2 MB memory?!?! When I look at any tasks that run for Norton and there's only a couple MB worth.

Is AVG really a light-weight application?

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