I agree with you here. People complain about Norton hogging system resources, but I've seen McAfee take more, sometimes as much as 30%.
Another area of system resource hogging is Adobe products. Open a large PDF with Adobe Reader and look at the memory use. Then open the same file with FoxIt Reader. Same functionality, lots less resource usage.
>Watch out - I'd give high odds that the security suite is the resource hog.
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>I'm suprised that a patch would reenable the firewall or Defender though. That would be annoying if you had purposfully disabled them.
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer