Anything other than AVG 2013 ?

[Stujw70]

Am running a Dell inspiron 531 with Vista. I have AVG 2013 and this seems to cause the computer to grind to a halt. Just wondering if any other programs are worth considering that may not have such a affect on the computer?

It's not a massively powerful computer by todays standards running on a AMD Athlon 64x2 dual core processor 4000+ 2.10Ghz what ever that all means

I hope to increase the RAM from it's current 1gb up to it's max of 4gb and hope that will help it along the was aswel.

Thanks very much

 

[CuzGS]

Ram will help mate, try crucial theyre v good and you can check on line

I run avg with no dramas, get malwarebyres free too, with those two youre well sorted for free

 

[Stujw70]

Cheers Cuz, shall have a look at those this week.

 

[Blackal]

Read on other forums that AVG have reduced the areas protected - on their free edition in 2013.

People are complaining that AVG didn't tell them (on a free product ) ..........

I can't remember which areas, but I don't mind paying £18 for a 2yr license on 4 machines for their Internet Security 2013.

Al

 

[Fanum]

Anything other than AVG 2013 ?

Avast!

 

[CuzGS]

Cheers Cuz, shall have a look at those this week.

Not whilst at6 work I hope, Im always too busy to do stuff like that

 

[Stujw70]

Not whilst at6 work I hope, Im always too busy to do stuff like that

Very very quite at work mate, ours is off for it's annual then straight into a full respray. Kicking our heels waiting on the county machines bringing bods in.

 

[Myke Rocks]

Ram will help mate, try crucial they're v good and you can check on line

Agreed with the above, but for my money, Microsoft Security Essentials is superb, free and does not slow the computer at all. I junked everything else in favour of it.
P.S. I loathe Microsoft, but this is definitely recommended.
Myke

 

[Deleted account 190920001]

as above, increase your RAM and go get security essentials.

 

[Stujw70]

Well cheers Gents, as a start i popped x2 additional 1GB of ram in and it's like a new machine. Not bad eh, all for £25.
If it appears to remain stable i shall pop another 2GB in next week and that should sort it for a good while yet. Will have a look through the security options now it can breath again

Thanks for the advice and pointers

Stu

 

[The Other Tim]

Avast

Would second both the Microsoft security essentials and avast as a good combo...

 

[CuzGS]

Stu, at the risk of stating the obvious, did the Crucial scan say 4gb was OK as your Laptop will have a threshold.

Glad your steaming ahead again, now go back to painting your ship

 

[The Stimulator]

Stu,

Worth checking what version of Vista you are running. If it is the 32 bit version, then the max ram it'll handle is 3.12GB,

Another vote here for Microsoft Security Essentials - low resource usage, but seems to deal with anything that gets thrown at it here in Saudi Arabia. I ditched everything else, apart from the odd manual Malawarebytes scan.



Iain

 

[Stujw70]

Hi Cuz
Yes mate the crucial scan said 4gb was max it could handle in it's 4 slots.

 

[Cogs]

MSE

Coupled to a CCleaner scan every month or so, it's amazing (to me) what crud (benign) accumulates on your hard drive over time through visiting web sites.

CCleaner finds it and gives you the means to get rid safely.

Also free, BTW

CoGS