I do not have a question, just a comment. After using AVG for several years in my Win XP system, I decided to remove it and try something else. After upgrading AVG to the 2011 version earlier this MONTH, Windows Explorer was not properly loading all program icons that normally load in the Notification Area, or System Tray. I also feel AVG has become afflicted with the bloat syndrome. It was ACCOUNTING for 9 processes in Task Manager and the Add or Remove Programs showed it to be consuming about 96MB, as I recall.

I suspected that AVG was causing the problem with Explorer during startup. After removing it and restarting, all icons/programs were loading correctly.

After installing MSE, I opened Add or Remove Programs and see that it only consumes about 16MB. The drive space is not an issue in itself but it's an indication of the bloat syndrome.

I had also been thinking about making a change of anti-virus program before the upgrade of AVG to version 2011. A full hard drive scan was a slow process, usually taking several hours, and slowed the computer while AVG was scanning. I should mention some hardware specs: an AMD Athlon XP 2200 and 512MB of RAM. In a more powerful system, perhaps I would not have NOTICED much impact from AVG running a scan.

Regarding the choice of MSE, it's just one of the anti-virus programs I have been thinking about trying, based on a favorable impression from various sources. I'm using avast! anti-virus in my Win 7 system and like it but just THOUGHT this would be an opportunity to try another anti-virus program. I dropped Avira AntiVir from 2 older computers because it refused to auto-update or even manual update. Even on a new computer is doesn't update daily, where AVG does.

Installed AVG 2011 on the 2 older computers with no apparent issues. There have been 5 releases of AVG 2011 in the past couple weeks to correct major bugs. Haven't updated the old computers with the latest REVS. The auto-update sometimes doesn't update the engine, just the defs.

I notice that AVG has 9 processes running consuming 30-40MB RAM. The install program is now 140MB, installed about 100MB.