Comments on: Bloor on the failure of antivirus products http://www.itwriting.com/blog/113-bloor-on-the-failuure-of-antivirus-products.html Tech writing blog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:04:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Hypnosis http://www.itwriting.com/blog/113-bloor-on-the-failuure-of-antivirus-products.html/comment-page-1#comment-91883 Hypnosis Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:52:36 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=113#comment-91883 Not sure what you are recommending here. But I agree that AV software is generally a pain in the a**. I just run the free version of AVG - and that keeps it's head down most of the time - but when it's running a scan it's eating 20% to 35% of CPU - which we all know has a lot more impact that you'd expect. (I never understand why responsiveness slows down so much when one app is running at 25% - surely I have 75% of the CPU left... but mouse responsiveness seems cut in half in opening an application takes 5x as long...) Not sure what you are recommending here. But I agree that AV software is generally a pain in the a**.

I just run the free version of AVG – and that keeps it’s head down most of the time – but when it’s running a scan it’s eating 20% to 35% of CPU – which we all know has a lot more impact that you’d expect. (I never understand why responsiveness slows down so much when one app is running at 25% – surely I have 75% of the CPU left… but mouse responsiveness seems cut in half in opening an application takes 5x as long…)

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