For those running AVG's LinkScanner...

a question. How big of a performance hit are you experiencing while using the web? I'd like to know particularly from those running it with an AV that utilizes a web/http guard or shield (like KAV, AVAST!, AntiVir).

 

I am using Link scanner with Avira free.It is feather light.

 

For example I get 1-2 seconds delay during google search. Delay sometimes is bigger but not often.
Avast + threatfire + AVG linkscanner

 

In my opinion there does appear to be some lag but it is not very much...perhaps a second or 2. I am running it with KIS 2009.

 

For me it ran smooth for 2 days. Less impact on browsing than Avast web scanner or F-Secure Exploit shield. I was happy until today when it all but cut off internet connectivity for both Firefox and IE. Sporadic time-outs, normal for a few minutes, then back to the timeouts. Uninstalling LinkScanner brought things back to normal.

 

im not getting any noticeable slowdowns while running it, tho im still having issues with it detecting an exploit test that it detects for other people but not me

 

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It's been working well for me for a few days. I also have the Norton Toolbar which I believe does link scanning and Norton Web Safe which displays link information in Google search pages, similar to AVG. I didn't notice a slowdown in browsing when I added AVG to this setup. They all seem to be getting along so far.

 

A sec or 2 here, with Avira Premium Security Suite. Only used it one day just to see how things went, its not bad.

 

I blue screen with Avira Premium :/

 

For some reason my browsing was slowed down quite a lot, and I regularly couldn't connect to sites because it stopped loading or something.

 

I am reposting here my posting to AVG Free forum regarding my experiences with LS 8.5 Free.

In my case, it would seem LS doesn't even work properly

 

I haven't noticed any performance hits or problems. I have the new linkscanner installed on 4 PC's. I installed it without the "Toolbar". Three PC's are Windows XP Pro SP3 and one PC is Windows 7 Beta.

 

One more running it with no issues.
It was the last thing I installed on a clean install of XP SP3, and I haven't seen any slowdown.
Opted to not install the toolbar, as I use Netcraft for site info.
There seems to be a wide variety of experiences with it, though, so who knows what will happen on your system.
I'm running it along with OA (paid), and Avira Premium.

 

Meanwhile, I did uninstall/reinstall and it seems to work now.

Keeping my fingers crossed the network link issue is gone ...