I know this is not a Kiero forum but am fishing in a river where Kiero's
are knows to hang out.

I'm a Norton user now. Norton's DRM fiasco (straw in the bunch really)
has convinced me to seek aternatives when my subscription expires in
May04. From lurking around here it seem like AVG & Kiero FW are tempting.

I am currently on XP but happened to pop in an old drive and install 98SE
with all the updates. Why not test out AVG & KFW 4! AVG is fine. KFW
works except, as soon as I try to download a file from a web page
everything slows to a crawl. Mouse barely functional. May respond to
movement 10 sec later but eventually things freeze.

Reboot. Turn off KFW. Go to page and can download same file repeatedly no
problem. Turn on KFW. Problem surfaces immediately on same file.

I checked the Kiero forum and there is someone there who describes this
problem as well. No responses. Maybe when I put it on Xp it will be a non
issue. Dunno.

Machine is a decent 1.6GHz with a half gig of memory. I'm going through a
Linksys 4 port router on DSL.

Any simple hints from this arena?