AVG8 is nasty... I loved AVG 7.5, but 8 is just over the top, and its linkscanner feature causes a lot of web servers issues.

It scans every link on every page you visit, (a mega pain if you had dialup!) it overloads servers because every single visitor with AVG8 visiting a site could effectively be loading a few hundred to a few thousand links at once, depending on the amount of links on a page... I made the switch to NOD32, and love it!!