[geeks] About that Windows antivirus question

[Phil Stracchino]

Gaz God wrote:
> Yup its a definite CPU whore, its brought my P4 3.2 XP SATA box to its knees
> several times.
> 
> It seems to ramp the cpu usage up to 50% but as this is a ht box it it kills
> all other tasks, the only solution i've found is to kill it and restart, not
> the best solution for a virus scanner.


I just uninstalled AVG 8, and I'm giving Avast! 4.8 a shot instead.  One
thing I see right from the start is that it can perform a boot-time scan
before Windows even loads, something AVG doesn't do.  It seems to me
this should be a big help against anything that tries to use Windows
tricks to hide from antivirus software.


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