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I feel your pain. I used free AVG for years, upgraded to the commercial version about three years ago, and when I got my new box I decided to reward them for their years of free service by purchasing 8.0.

Big mistake. Major bloatware. That goldang Yahoo search toolbar is also the only way to control the browser filter from the browser itself; delete it and you have to do that from the control panel. That filter has known incompatibilities with IE7 under Vista - there's a patch I can look up if you need it. Even after installing it the browser freezes up at random when it senses certain old Java content or some Active-X stuff I haven't identified yet. I turned it off.

Same sad story we've seen with Norton/Symantec and McAffee. No simple, sleek AV engine, you're gonna get a suite containing a firewall, browser filters, etc, etc, whether you like it or not.

I made the decision to replace it earlier this week but I haven't identified a replacement yet. I'll be looking at this thread for suggestions. Free isn't important; unobtrusive is. Thanks for posting this.

I started out with Norton when I first got a computer. I found AVG and I have been using it for a couple of years now and I like it.

I'm going to bring up my Netstat and see if it's still eating my BW. *fingers crossed*