On 2012-03-08 6:06 PM, Arfa Daily wrote:

... I used to use AVG, but the whole reason that I took it off
was that it became so top-heavy, it was gobbling half the
processing power and half the memory most of the time that you
were actively connected to the outside world ...

Perhaps do as "Sjouke Burry" suggested and turn off all of the
"real time shields" except for file-read and file-write.
That should use less RAM, less CPU, etc. This should apply to
both Avast and AVG, and indeed any anti-virus software with
real-time protection.

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Cheers,
Robbie Hatley
Santa Ana, CA, USA
lonewolf (at) well (dot) com
http://www.well.com/user/lonewolf/