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 Do you want to signoff PCSOFT or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml