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AV and Firewall driving me crazy

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by koipoi1057 1 view

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I have tried several internet security products on both myhard drives and they are revving the hard drive and making everything very slow. I use to have mcafee with no problems. The new one I got started making this problem. I tried zonealarm, AVG and now TrendMicro. Each one does the same thing. I have run diagnostics on everything and everything passes. I have Dell Dimension if that means anything. ANy ideas? TIA!

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by maz

If you are low on memory, then this can happen. As a general rule, running most security packages with less than 512 MB of RAM will cause the symptoms you're seeing.

I'd say adding more RAM is necessary.

by thomasaddley

run a antivirus that is so resource intensive, when there are available systems that works better then your high end systems, without the overhead

by koipoi1057

I have been trying anything to get this to stop. I never had this problem until about 2 months ago. When my original McAfee expired. But the McAfee Birus Protection Plus started the whole damn thing.

by koipoi1057

Thanks for your idea. I have 1.5 GB tho, shouldn't that be enuff?

by thomasaddley

more than enough, avast is not resource heavy, just make sure that you uninstall any other antivirus, before installing

by thomasaddley

Try Avast, this a commericial grade antivirus, free to home users and other than during the daily update process, does not use up all your systems resources, vendors run online.

I have ben using this for two years nad do not run a firewall or at least don't run one, unless I am going to a site whwere I shouldn't Even during P2P, have not had to run a firewall, and avast has gotten everything attempting to get through. Link to Download is http://avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html, try it-you'll like it

by thomasaddley

I apoligize, but I should have said avast, not advast, but if you used the link I supplied you will have no problem as that was the correct link

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