PCs & Mobiles Forum - Warning about AVG 9.0 - Page 1

After years of faithful service I had to uninstall AVG about six months ago after it kept doing something similar. Am using a combination of Avira and WinPatrol currently.

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I was also having trouble with AVG hogging all my CPU, so scrapped it in favour of Microsoft's awesome Security Essentials.

Not only did it use far less resources, it also found 3 viruses/trojans that AVG was oblivious to. It's getting better marks among experts than the previous king of anti-virus, NOD32.

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and watching YT vids was like stop-motion. Bringing up task manager showed that AVG was running the PC at 100%, taking up 84% of the whole processing power

I've had these exact problems with 8.5: AVG+YouTube made my computer need a little rest every 20 seconds. My previous "let's run this thing into the ground" motto of computer use meant I barely switched my laptop off for 18 months straight, so the scan got done in the night, now I have it sleep while I do so that means AVG *completely* ruins my computery fun for up to *4* hours every day (oh for the days of a 15 minute scan). Even Windows sounds stutter it makes it so slow sometimes. I've disabled it and I'm going to uninstall - I've been an AVG user since 2000.

I currently have Avast, but I'm open to other recs.

Oh and Ad-Aware can f*** off too, just crashes whenever I try to update or run a scan on several computers.




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The only thing I really liked about AVG was the resident shield, but it was always crap at actually removing anything it alerted me about (Had some nasty rootkits the other day). I actually use Malwarebytes in safe mode, and regrun on reboot. works a treat

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Interesting, i switched to Avast from AVg a couple of year sago, as I got fed up with AVG becoming as bloaty as other Av products, but when I put Win 7 RC on my laptop I thought I'd give it a go, and I recently upgraded it to the latest free avg and I've had no problems, but I did turn off the internet link thing and browser toolbar thing, so maybe if you just install the avg virus scanner and not all the extra crap it's ok.

I run avast on the main pc in XP, Comodo on my old pc, they both seem ok.

Simimlary to comments above, I've heard good things about AVira, and the new MS one.


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I just tried AVG with W7, it lasted a week because it let me run a virus that's been out months, one even Microsoft Security Essentials noticed was bad.

Gone back to Avira.


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Brian, I owe you a beer. I installed avira after you suggested it, and one of the first things it did was find sdra64.exe hidden on my system. a quick google scared the s*** out of me, but I think I've thwarted it using 4 different programs. Scary thing is it's a keylogger, so hopefully it hasn't given any sensitive data to anyone nefarious

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Still using AVG but my machine is old and slow anyway.
I had to take Ad aware off as that froze everything up completely.

A friend of mine who knows about these things uses ESET though I haven't tried it yet.

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I used to be with it, but then they changed what 'it' was.
Now, what I'm with isn't it, and what's 'it' seems weird and scary

I'm using Avast on my Win7 PC and think that's pretty good.
Switched over from AvG a while back as well since.

Thankfully (touch wood) I've never encountered any virus on my machine, but I think that's mainly because I'm very careful about what I look at and do on the PC (Firefox with "NoScript" installed generally helps for those pesky drive-by ones).