It may or may not be AVG. I have found AVG 8.0 too big and clumsy. It’s starting to resemble Norton. So I switched to Avast. Runs great, non-intrusive, works well on the lone Vista machine on our network.
Avast doesn’t have a firewall does it?
Oh, and I agree with you about AVG starting to resemble Norton. It is getting bigger and clunkier.