>>Are you using the newest version of AVG Free Edition? I thought that was dog slow, so I changed to the PC Tools free antivirus. I am having decent luck with that so far.
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>I'm not sure. It did an update not too long ago. Doesn't seem any slower. I may give that one a look-see. Ta.

If you're on 7.5, it probably has updates scheduled. Just checked mine, and the its tables are one day old.