>Jos,
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>>Memory hogs. I'd like to see a comparison of different AV systems. Here's one:
>>AVG Free Edition - +/-42Mg with alert manager, update manager, email scanner, control center.
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>For sure - if not connected on a weak-breasted laptop AV and firewall are the first to go.
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>I am not sure this will give you valid statistics, as perhaps the memory to be consumed is calculated depending on available / free ram. At least in the vfp-apps I develop for a great range of HW sys(3050,) has a large machine dependant twist. Don't you think this could be done by AV software, where the HW range is probably even greater by a large margin ?
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>regards
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>thomas

Yes absolutely. One needs to compare memory usage of an app in relation to the platform its running on. Quite right. I do like AVG by the way. I dropped Symantec in favour of it.