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I use AVG free edition. Overall pleased but it seems like it can be a memory hog. Can anyone confirm this?

on my 2GB memory vista laptop, when Idle AVG only takes about 300K of memory, when running a scan the 3 processes running only takes about 10,000K so really not touching the total memory

I'm planning on using Forefront, or whatever Microsoft's consumer (free) version of that is, as soon as I get my computer back together.

I use Bitdefender. It gets excellent reviews.

I was using Zone Alarm, but I grew tired of answering tons of questions everytime I did anything. Now, concerning firewalls, a network person where I work said your pc doesn't even need a firewall as long as you are also using a router. I have mine running this way currently for now although I'm not too comfortable with it yet.

Oh good lord, that network person should be fired. Fast. And a security audit needs to be performed on your network.

Routers as a base device provide at best NAT. That's it. Any competent hacker can get through NAT. It's security through obscurity.

Now, me, I find Windows Firewall with Advanced Security (read, the Windows Firewall included in Vista and 7) to be enough, but I'm also not doing anything critical on my home Windows machine.

LoL. I don't thing we've ever had a "good" network person. He's much better that the one he replaced though, but he's hard to communicate with. It's like he thinks he's smarter than everyone else.

I checked my settings and I do have both Windows Defender and Firewall activate. I'm not sure I know what you mean by "with Advanced Security" though. All I see is it's either on or off with many options to turn on or off.

Edit: I guess by "read: Vista or 7" you mean that if you have at least Vista, it's the advanced version.

Edit2: Looks like we both responded at the same time.

If you've got Win 7 or Vista, you've got Advanced Security.

Another AVG user here.

Rick, I've had the same problems with pages not loading with the 9.0 version of AVG. I ended up uninstalling it and tried the PC with out it and my PC ran super fast.

I ended up not reinstalling AVG and went with Avira Anti-virus. It too is free for personal use and the PC is running great again.