# Vista vs Virus Protection

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 7, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vista-vs-virus-protection/452181 "2008-06-07T23:50:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![notlikely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9d8465/32.png) [@notlikely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notlikely)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vista-vs-virus-protection/452181/1 "2008-06-07T23:50:51Z")

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I bought a brand new computer with Vista Premium Home Service Pack 1

It comes with pentium dual cpu 2ghz processor  
2gb RAM  
500gb storage

I took it out of the box and oh my God was it slow. Rather slow on the Internet  
After Googling around I found that it could be the virus dector. I took Norton (came with the computer) and disabled it. I disabled everything I could find. Still nothing.  
Then I uninstalled Norton and restared. Boy then did Vista work great. So I installed AVS the free antivirus I saw listed on this site.

Same thing again. I took me SIX minutes to download the main page of Google.

So I uninstalled AVS and back to the Quick Vista

OK I have looked online and other users have had this but the only answer I find is uninstall the virus protector.

I am not crazy about not having a virus protector on the machine. It wouldn’t be so bad if I could just disable it, but I have to physically uninstall it.

Any ideas on how to get some kind of antivirus protector on this?

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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vista-vs-virus-protection/452181/2 "2008-06-08T01:42:25Z")

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I’ve heard that the new AVG 8.0 is a bit of a memory hog, especially the process avgrsx.exe.

Here’s some helpful information in a [forum post on tweakguides.com](http://forums.tweakguides.com/showthread.php?p=84601) for “cleaning it up” a bit.

You can also try [Avast!](http://avast.com/) which, as far as I’ve read, is on par with AVG as “the” free antivirus software.