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[twiglet]

Got a couple of fairly old PC's running AVG at the moment, and it seems to be making them run like dogs... Time to bin it I think.

Can anyone recommend a decent AV problem that will protect without slowing them to a crawl?

TIA 

[stewart000]

are you sure you havent got any other probs there?
iv been useing avg for years without a worry.

what os are you running?
you gould download a registry cleaner, windows just loves to clutter things up in there.

[Entwood]

AVG got the reputation for slowing systems down a while back ... seems that "avast free" works pretty well, I use it and have .. so far .. had no problems

http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download

[tigers_gonads]

I dumped AVG for the same reason

Been running Mircosoft Essentials for a few months now with no problems.

As for Reg Cleaners, your best bet is to just re install windows

[stewart000]

very true, a reinstall is the safest, just remember to save your bookmarks and any other stuff you want to a memory stick.

[TheBoy]

I mostly use MS Security Essentials now, with a weekly run of the freebie Maylwarebytes.

AVG went bloaty, and Avast thought I was breaking the terms of their free licence.

[henryd]

Been using Avira free for a while now on all my PC's and seems pretty good

[cem_devecioglu]

honestly whatever you use, sooner or later you will get some infection or the software itself mess up something.. I have concluded that those companies dont offer good scanner/protector software for free..   tried them all , sooner or later I had to download another for some reason

[Plomien]

I use Avast, but Microsoft security essentials is good as well.
I had used Avira and a friend swore by it until it started letting viruses through as it wasn't updated frequently enough