AntiVirus Issues

Our ‘utility’ laptop is an Everex StepNote that has a Via CPU and 2GB of RAM.  It’s just not a powerful laptop.  After monitoring with System Internals Process Explorer, AVG appears to have more overhead than I would like.

Next, I had a problem installing AVG on my clean Windows 7 Build 7100 install.  I previously used AVG, but it was not happy installing this time.

What to do, what to do? 

I tried Clam AntiVirus for Windows.  It appears to have lower overhead, and it runs fine on Windows 7.  The ClamTray process doesn’t even register on the CPU meter.

I know AVG has been effective, blocking some compromised web sites as well as trojan/malware on several of my systems.  I will watch ClaimWin and note how effective it is as I test through the month of July.

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