Re: [CentOS] Stupid Question (Linux antivirus)

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Drew drew.kay@gmail.com wrote:

I'm sorry but stay as far away from them as you can. AVG 7 was great, I used to recommend it all the time, but version 8 has become really bloated and chews through resources like no-ones business. I installed it on a dual-booted (XP/Debian) Laptop w/ 512M RAM and after upgrading from 7 to 8 my machine in XP began to lag badly.

That seems to be the pattern with anti-virus software. Starts out good and bloats out. I remember when McAfee and Norton (or its IBM variant) were good anti-virus applications. Then I went to AVG, used it from six on up, and also got tired of its bloat in 8. When I rebuilt my wife's XP computer I went with Avast! -- the jury is still out on that.