http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20482435 en Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:15:25 EDT Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:15:25 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20486239 seankelly : This topic seems as good a topic to reply to on AVG 8 as any of the many others.

I've ditched AVG 8 from my laptop and suddenly web browsing is snappy again. Nice. And yes, I had already disabled the link scanner.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20486239 Thu, 15 May 2008 09:56:01 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20482586 jabarnut : There are actually a ton of threads going around concerning AVG 8.

Here's a sampling. ;)

»AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow?

»AVG 8?????

»AVG 7.5 expires

»AVG 8 Free Better Than 7.5 After Tweaking
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7.5 took about an hour if IE was open, but 8.0 takes 90 minutes regardless. Did they slow it down to make me want to pay for the better version?
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