Re: AVG9

[John Jordan]

Mike Tomlinson wrote:
> In article <%15Pm.88860$Qc7.15139@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, John Jordan
> <junk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>
> > The default install since v8 does a full disk scan every day. This is 
> > the first thing to turn off if you don't have an SSD and you actually 
> > want to use the PC.
>
> Thanks John.  It doesn't half cripple the machine tho, and odd thing is
> nothing much shows up in Task Mangler.  Think the highest-CPU process
> shown was svchost.exe doing its usual backdoor tattling to M$ HQ.

AVG is relatively light on CPU usage, possibly because it uses 
relatively small signatures (hence the false positives). It's the disk 
accesses that really hurt.


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John Jordan