I got tried of their AVG (free)  update server being flooded
and non-responsive. This was a few years ago.
My wife JUST quit Avira (free) a month ago on an old Win-XP-Pro-SP3
box used only for archives.
Their server was VERY bad. (I have FIOS and no other D/L problems.)
YMMV.

Rick Glazier

From: "Tom Mayer SC"
>A few years back I switched from Norton to AVG (free) and have not had a 
> virus on my computers. With Norton since DOS I also never had a virus. 
> With both programs, every once in a while I got/get a message that some 
> bad thing was being blocked. Both products update automatically. The 
> reason I changed products is not quality.
> 
> Norton kept adding more and more to their product to where (in my 
> opinion) it had become bloat ware. I did an evaluation between Norton 
> and AVG and found that Norton consumed 3 times as much RAM as did AVG. I 
> had found one of the answers to the gradual slow down in my computer. I 
> switched to AVG and was pleased at the increase in performance.
> 
> I do not know what, if any, the current performance difference is, but I 
> just thought I'd mentioned that there are reasons other than quality to 
> use a different product. I really hope this does not open another long 
> forum discussion as this subject has been beat to death on numerous 
> forums. As long as a product is doing its job and the operator likes it 
> - that is good.
> 
> Tom

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