[roamer_1]

Now they've added anti-spy and a IE search tool bar. Insane.

Don't let it (or anything, of course) install the tool bar, and don't let it send information to AVG... both are setup options which slow INET transactions considerably...

I find it heavier than AVG 7 but still bearable for the trade off in detections. It is seriously better at trojans now that AVGAS is rolled in. I still would not stack it up against my house brand, which is F-Protect, or against Kaspersky or Nod32, but I think it a great improvement for those who don't have the money to purchase one of the above.

[MarkL]

The downside is that if you don't upgrade to the paid version of AVG 8, you lose the email protection after the first 30 days. This allowed a buddy's system to get hit by a particularly nasty version of AntispywareXP-2008. I never was able to completely rip it out (it had installed at least 4 different "phone home" trojans), so I wound up just wiping the disk and starting fresh.

They're on Avast now.

Mark