I Am Back To Square 1 With Anti Virus

Well, I tried PC Tools, and while it seems to pick up everything under the
sun, it has slowed things down to a crawl and has crashed my PC...and I
wasn't even home at the time. It was just doing an update when the thing
died.

I would be in the middle of typing and the AV takes up so many resources
that sometimes I'd have to wait 5 to 10 seconds for the next few characters
to display. This is just unacceptable. I never had this problem with
Kaspersky. Even typing forum posts was becoming a nightmare as the
PC couldn't keep up with my typing speed and I'm only like 40 WPM.

I know a part of the problem has to be that this crappy Windows OS (XP
Pro) is falling apart and has been for some time. That's why I didn't want to
uninstall Kaspersky. But they told me they couldn't just renew my license
after practically begging them.

So now I'm left with no choice but to buy Kaspersky 11. I don't even dare
mess with anything that I've never used before...not after this nightmare
of an experience.

So while I'm sure all your AV software that you use is great, because my
PC is being held together with duck tape, I can't afford to take the chance
on it. So thanks for your suggestions but I'm going to stick with Kaspersky 11
and hope that at least performs as well as version 9 did. I was very happy
with it. The only thing slow about it was the actual start up of my PC
(took about 11 minutes) but after that, fast as anything.

Anyway, I tried to do a system restore to just before I installed PC Tools
but it wouldn't let me. I tried other restore points too but no good. So I
simply uninstalled PC Tools and am now going to go to Kasperky's site and
try again.

Oh, and in case you're wondering why I'm typing this long post, it's to see
if the lag was in fact caused by PC Tools. No doubt about it, it was.

Wish me luck on getting this PC protected again.