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I use AVG free edition. Overall pleased but it seems like it can be a memory hog. Can anyone confirm this?
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on my 2GB memory vista laptop, when Idle AVG only takes about 300K of memory, when running a scan the 3 processes running only takes about 10,000K so really not touching the total memory
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I'm planning on using Forefront, or whatever Microsoft's consumer (free) version of that is, as soon as I get my computer back together.
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I use Bitdefender. It gets excellent reviews.
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I was using Zone Alarm, but I grew tired of answering tons of questions everytime I did anything. Now, concerning firewalls, a network person where I work said your pc doesn't even need a firewall as long as you are also using a router. I have mine running this way currently for now although I'm not too comfortable with it yet.
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Oh good lord, that network person should be fired. Fast. And a security audit needs to be performed on your network.
Routers as a base device provide at best NAT. That's it. Any competent hacker can get through NAT. It's security through obscurity.
Now, me, I find Windows Firewall with Advanced Security (read, the Windows Firewall included in Vista and 7) to be enough, but I'm also not doing anything critical on my home Windows machine.
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LoL. I don't thing we've ever had a "good" network person. He's much better that the one he replaced though, but he's hard to communicate with. It's like he thinks he's smarter than everyone else.
I checked my settings and I do have both Windows Defender and Firewall activate. I'm not sure I know what you mean by "with Advanced Security" though. All I see is it's either on or off with many options to turn on or off.
Edit: I guess by "read: Vista or 7" you mean that if you have at least Vista, it's the advanced version.
Edit2: Looks like we both responded at the same time.
Last edited by CatBrat; 03/21/10 06:43 PM.
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If you've got Win 7 or Vista, you've got Advanced Security.
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Rick, I've had the same problems with pages not loading with the 9.0 version of AVG. I ended up uninstalling it and tried the PC with out it and my PC ran super fast.
I ended up not reinstalling AVG and went with Avira Anti-virus. It too is free for personal use and the PC is running great again.
Rick
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