Comments on: AVG Antivirus - The Web Bandwidth Killer http://www.cornellfinch.com/2008/06/16/avg-antivirus-the-web-bandwidth-killer/ Why stop now, just when I'm hating it? Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:25:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Gert Hough http://www.cornellfinch.com/2008/06/16/avg-antivirus-the-web-bandwidth-killer/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Gert Hough Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:06:23 +0000 http://www.cornellfinch.com/?p=39#comment-41 Yep, I agree. Not only does it steal bandwidth but it must be a huge lag on computers that is connected via dial-up! I have fast ADSL (relatively speaking) and I have turned it off as well. I cannot imagine that it does not rather querie a database listing of known-to-be-infected-websites so that the issue be resolved. Yep, I agree. Not only does it steal bandwidth but it must be a huge lag on computers that is connected via dial-up!

I have fast ADSL (relatively speaking) and I have turned it off as well. I cannot imagine that it does not rather querie a database listing of known-to-be-infected-websites so that the issue be resolved.

]]> By: prying1 http://www.cornellfinch.com/2008/06/16/avg-antivirus-the-web-bandwidth-killer/comment-page-1/#comment-40 prying1 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:31:29 +0000 http://www.cornellfinch.com/?p=39#comment-40 I too use AVG free and found the little green tick marks when I upgraded. "This is cool!" I thought when I had hovered the cursor and read the message. But then I noticed that my machine was slowing down. And for some pages it was taking quite a while for the tick marks to appear. I have the preferences set to 100 hits on both Google and Yahoo Searches. I turned it off. I too use AVG free and found the little green tick marks when I upgraded. “This is cool!” I thought when I had hovered the cursor and read the message.

But then I noticed that my machine was slowing down. And for some pages it was taking quite a while for the tick marks to appear.

I have the preferences set to 100 hits on both Google and Yahoo Searches.

I turned it off.

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