[geeks] About that Windows antivirus question

[Gaz God]

Yup its a definite CPU whore, its brought my P4 3.2 XP SATA box to its knees
several times.

It seems to ramp the cpu usage up to 50% but as this is a ht box it it kills
all other tasks, the only solution i've found is to kill it and restart, not
the best solution for a virus scanner.



On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net>
wrote:

> Ok, so I've been running AVG 8.0 Free for about a week and a half now.
> Not sure what it's supposed to do *for* me that 7.5 didn't, unless I use
> Intarweb Exploithost, but 8.0's resident scanner slows Windows 2000 to a
> crawl on an Athlon64/3000 PCI/E machine with SATA disk and 3GB of RAM.
>
>
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