We had a discussion on this last year and the owner was miffed how AVG's process was lumped into that item and not on it's own line.
I've subscribed to see how this discussion plays out.
However as more threats appear, the antivirus apps grow. I see nothing wrong with using 113.004 megabytes of ram today. Your systems from the last 5 years have been showing up with 2000 to 4000 megabytes so this is not being overindulgent.
Bob
I have 4 XP pro computers with various anti virus programs. Only the computer with AVG 2011 shows a process "system" using over 113004K of precious RAM! Is there a fix for this?

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