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Old 11th August 2008, 14:56   #1 (permalink)
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Tenerife Forum members, has AVG 8.0 Antivirus slowed your pc down?
It flippin has all of mine. Any solutions apart from changing programmes?
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Ours is slow but only when it is scanning the computer.
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It flippin has all of mine. Any solutions apart from changing programmes?
not noticed it to be slower but takes ages to do a system scan
mind you i do have over a terrabyte of hard drive may be that
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My pc is always on ago slow
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Flaming Google plug-ins driving me mad too.
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i wouldn't have said mines any slower with AVG 8.0
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Try Avast. It's free for home use and is the business. I prefer it to AVG or McAfee, both of which I have used in the past, any day.
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AVG scans on start up so does slow your pc, just interupt the process & you'll be ok again.

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