Finallly blew up Ad-Aware

[Bossy Monkey]

In the last week, it downloaded updates three times. Each update was larger than the entire program was, say, two years ago. Now Ad-Aware says a new version is ready. I just said, not this time buddy. I don't really think it's bloatware; I'm sure it's still fine for the 90%+ of people on broadband. But I'm not one of those people. Miss the old days when the anti-malware was JUST anti-malware, antivirus was just antivirus and firewall was just firewall. All of them trying to do everything just creates software conflicts, and no one of them is likely to be good at everything. Ptttttt.:)

[GoCubsGo]

1. I got rid of that one, too.

It bogged down/jammed up my computer big-time. Had it on there to get rid of some malware. Once that was gone, and I figured out that Ad Aware was my computer to slow, off it went.

[Gold Metal Flake]

2. AVG free is more and more intrusive especially on my older machines.

Nothing good lasts.

[TK421]

4. My machine is from 2003 with no memory upgrades...AVG, while free

is STILL a hog..even though I have plenty of space on my hard-drive ( I really only use this thing to check e-mail or go to DU ) It runs 12:00 PM automatically but never even seems to find anything

[pokerfan]

3. I switched to Ubuntu two years ago

and haven't looked back.

http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-12-06-010-35-OP-SW">20 reasons you should switch to Linux