"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 12:08:50 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote:


"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:18:49 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
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JimH wrote:
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If I could I would cancel Norton.

The problem is I don't know what to replace it with.
AVG Free. Automatic updates. http://free.grisoft.com/

avast! is also good.
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html
JimH,
Can you see how much memory AVG uses. McAfee uses about 25,000K

Less than a quarter of that.



That would have been my guess. McAfee is a memory hog.

A quick look shows AVG processes use about 30k. I don't see that as
an issue.

--Vic

I think you misread the process information.

There are three AVG process typically running:

avgamsvr.exe
avgcc.exe
avgupsvc.exe

Depending what AVG is doing when you look the total can vary from about
2MB
to about 5MB.

I've also got guard.exe running using 23k, and a quick google showed
that to be an AVG module. Let me know if it's malware.

--Vic

Do you have the pay version of AVG. I'm using the free version and there is
no guide.exe included.

On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 12:39:27 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote:



Do you have the pay version of AVG. I'm using the free version and there is
no guide.exe included.

Free version. It's guard.exe

Oh Oh.

--Vic

"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 12:39:27 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote:



Do you have the pay version of AVG. I'm using the free version and there
is
no guide.exe included.

Free version. It's guard.exe

Oh Oh.

--Vic

I did a little searching. The guard.exe file is used by AVG to make sure
some rogue hasn't put a block on the AVG update server in the Windows Hosts
file.

Why my free AVG doesn't have it, I have no idea. For a long time I've had
the habit of periodically checking the Hosts file for unwanted entries.

Hope this helps.

On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 13:30:21 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote:

I did a little searching. The guard.exe file is used by AVG to make sure
some rogue hasn't put a block on the AVG update server in the Windows Hosts
file.

Why my free AVG doesn't have it, I have no idea. For a long time I've had
the habit of periodically checking the Hosts file for unwanted entries.

Hope this helps.

I looked a bit too and as usual got conflicting info, which I don't
care to sort out. If anything fits the description of "if it ain't
broke don't fix it," it's gotta be PC apps.
I used to like doing it, but that got old and I now only do what's
necessary - to me.

--Vic