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Doug
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1st Dec 06 at 21:57   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
As per title really!

Im currently using sophos but under the impression that AVG is better?

Which one uses the least system resources?
Cybermonkey
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the most recent version of AVG is a bit of a resource hog TBH, almost as bad as norton
MarkM
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AVG 7.5?
Cybermonkey
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yeah
Bart
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we just rolled out 7.5 to all machines at work. i dont have any complaints so far
Dom
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run avg here and the AVG components use about 2mb of mem in all - far from resource hogging

never used sophos, but avg is pretty small - not the best mind you, but free
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I use BitDefender Professional, works a treat and doesn't hog my system.
MarkM
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quote:
Originally posted by Dom
run avg here and the AVG components use about 2mb of mem in all - far from resource hogging

never used sophos, but avg is pretty small - not the best mind you, but free


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