Is AVAST slowing me down?

Noticed for the last few weeks that my system has been running slower.
Getting alot of "Program not Responding" messages for IE and Outlook.
Webpages seem to open slower or hang at times before opening. AVG did find
a trojan one time but that's been taken care of. Everything seemed to
happen after installing AVAST. Does AVAST slow you down cause if it does
I'm thinking of removing it. Thanks.

 

How fast is your CPU and how much ram do you have?

Kenny

 

I have an AMD 1700+ and 512 ram. I'm also running AVG at the same time.

 

You're running AVG and Avast at the same time and wondering why your PC is
slow? Running more than one anti-virus program concurrently is a bad idea...
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nav.nsf/docid/2000031316555206

 

remove AVG, avast is good by itself and your pc is fast enough to handle
avast with no problem. Avast is the best free antivirus in my opinion.

Kenny

 

Really? I thought I was just being extra careful....OK....which one should
I keep?

 

Avast it is....thanks.

 

You have can both installed, but do NOT have both of their on-access (or
real-time) scanners enabled. You are then having multiple file
interceptors interrogating the data stream for your file. You can both
installed and use their on-demand scanners to look for infections
manually or with scheduled runs (but don't run them at the same time).

Visit http://www.virusbulletin.com/vb100/archives/products.xml to see
which AV product has historically passed muster. Avast passed 11 times
out of 30 tests (37%). AVG passed 7 out of 27 tests (26%). This does
not tell you how many viruses, trojans, spyware, or other malware gets
caught by the latest version of each. It only tells you how the
products did historically. http://www.av-comparatives.org/ lists how
each product does for coverage within several test categories but they
never include AVG. If you intend to keep only one, I would think you
are in the best position to compare the two regarding their feature sets
as to which is better for you.

Avast will scan the ADS (alternate data stream) of files but only if you
enable its option to scan archive (unpacking) is turned on. They treat
the ADS as a special type of packed file. As I recall the reply from
Grisoft, AVG does not scan the ADS. See
http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs-multi­ple.htm on what is the ADS. Ad-Aware, in
their new SE version, just started scanning the ADS. Spybot and MSAS do
not scan the ADS.

 

Thanks for the response. I'll look into this further.

 

Firewall

Is AVAST considered a firewall?