AVG and Antivirus 2008

Charlie Leo wrote:
> I just removed AVG. I downloaded it to get rid of 'Antivirus 2008'. It
> didn't detect it, but it sure did a number on my machine. It slowed
> everything down, particularly the startup. AVG was actually worse than
> the virus itself.
>
> I did download another program that did get rid of the nasty. I guess
> I'm overdue to have my machine 'tuned up' by my professionals, but in
> the meantime, I'm sure glad to get rid of AVG.
>
> Charlie


That's odd, I install and use AVG free for hundreds of customers,(and
encourage them to buy the full ver.)
and NEVER have I gotten one complaint, not one, but of course I am removing
Norton or McAfee internet security suites and compared to that the
PC's run much faster AND AVG usually finds a few virus files too....
I personally don't run an antivirus software, but on occasion will load and
run AVG then uninstall it the next day or so
Again never have I gotten a complaint...

What was your biggest problem with AVG??? other than detection, which I have
found to be very good...
Thanks
Clark...(a professional)
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>On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:25:19 -0400, "Clark" <Clark_throwaway.RemoveThis@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Charlie Leo wrote:
>> I just removed AVG. I downloaded it to get rid of 'Antivirus 2008'. It
>> didn't detect it, but it sure did a number on my machine. It slowed
>> everything down, particularly the startup. AVG was actually worse than
>> the virus itself.
>>
>> I did download another program that did get rid of the nasty. I guess
>> I'm overdue to have my machine 'tuned up' by my professionals, but in
>> the meantime, I'm sure glad to get rid of AVG.
>>
>> Charlie
>
>
>That's odd, I install and use AVG free for hundreds of customers,(and
>encourage them to buy the full ver.)
>and NEVER have I gotten one complaint, not one, but of course I am removing
>Norton or McAfee internet security suites and compared to that the
>PC's run much faster AND AVG usually finds a few virus files too....
>I personally don't run an antivirus software, but on occasion will load and
>run AVG then uninstall it the next day or so
>Again never have I gotten a complaint...
>
>What was your biggest problem with AVG??? other than detection, which I have
>found to be very good...
>Thanks
>Clark...(a professional)

The one thing missing since I uninstalled Norton Internet Security and
installed AVG Free is incoming email scanning. It's set to scan
incoming emails and will scan those coming in to Outlook. But I don't
use Outlook for email, I use a program called Forte Agent which
provide very good email as well as Newsgroup Reader.

I cannot seem to get AVG to scan emails coming into Agent.

Charliec
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>What was your biggest problem with AVG??? other than detection, which I have
>found to be very good...
>Thanks
>Clark...(a professional)

AVG slowed both startup and shutdown on my machine. Evidently it was
set up to scan everything that the startup loaded and all the
shortcuts. I think the same thing happened with the shut down.

I had to disable the email scan before my email program would download
emails from my server. As long as email scanner was active, it did not
allow email download.

AVG also had popup nag screens about every 30 minutes.

Obviously, I don't know that much about AVG. Perhaps I could have
configured it to be less obtrusive if I knew what I was doing. But the
fact that it did not remove Antivirus 2008 made everything else AVG
could do a moot point with me.

Charlie

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:32:19 -0700, Charliec
<charliec DeleteThis @invalid.address.com> wrote:

>What program did you download and install. I have AVG and am new to
>it, but am not quite happy.

I used 'Malwarebytes Anti-Malware' I found this on the home page of
Hal-pc (www.hal-pc.org).

Several years ago I used AVG to good advantage. The latest version
seemes to be a real resource hog, with popup nag screens to boot!
Charlie

Charliec wrote:

> The one thing missing since I uninstalled Norton Internet Security and
> installed AVG Free is incoming email scanning. It's set to scan
> incoming emails and will scan those coming in to Outlook. But I
> don't use Outlook for email, I use a program called Forte Agent which
> provide very good email as well as Newsgroup Reader.
>
> I cannot seem to get AVG to scan emails coming into Agent.

That's probably a Good Thing™. You don't need to scan incoming and
outgoing email.

http://tekrider.net/general/misctips.php#avscan

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Charlie Leo wrote:
> I just removed AVG. I downloaded it to get rid of 'Antivirus 2008'. It
> didn't detect it, but it sure did a number on my machine. It slowed
> everything down, particularly the startup. AVG was actually worse than
> the virus itself.
>
> I did download another program that did get rid of the nasty. I guess
> I'm overdue to have my machine 'tuned up' by my professionals, but in
> the meantime, I'm sure glad to get rid of AVG.
>
> Charlie

I dont think any of the main anti virus products are able to get rid of
antivirus 2008, even those that claim to remove spyware. Avg needs to be
installed using custom, and deselecting link scanner.

Gaz