AVG Free Anti-Virus Program Warning!!!

Jim Saueressig

Jim Saueressig

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I have for the second time in a year had AVG Free take out my computer. It happened again after yesterdays update...

The first time a year ago I thought it was a coincidence. Yesterday I thought it was damn suspicious. I got my Win 7 back up this time with a back dated restore, Last time I was not so lucky. A few hours ago my X-father in law who I do system support for his businesses called and His Vista crashed. I had set him up with AVG last year on his computers and now one is down, he had postponed his update until last night and when restarting today it was unbootable, he can also not get system restore to work.

I just got off the phone with my X-wife and after her update last night with AVG free her computer was crashed as well this morning but was lucky enough to get the restore to work. I googled and it seems that AVG forums are crawling with similar stories that they seem to be deleting in fast order.....
 
I've switched from AVG to "Microsoft Security Essentials".
Running it for the last 3 weeks, and so far it's been fine. Runs smooth and hardly know it is there. It has popped up on occasion to make me aware of an unsafe site.
 
Like Rob, I have Security Essentials. Been using it for about 8-10 months, and I've not had one problem with it. I used to have AVG, but went to Essentials. I never had a problem with AVG though.
 
I had AVG for a long time but it was a total resource hog... so I got rid of it.
 
So is this impacting certain operating systems only? Either way, I don't think AVG pulled down the update last night (they were off) onto my XP machines and hoping they will boot up so I can promptly dump AVG.

Edit: Looks like it's a Windows 7 issues only (thanks Chris!). Apparently this is one of the few times when not having a current OS helps.
 
I used AVG for several years but it slowly became more and more bloated. I have switched to Avast on my XP, Vista, and 7 systems and have had absolutely no problems so far. It runs like a champ, uses very few resources, and is also free. I would recommend it to anyone.
 
Sorry so long to respond...

It is not a Windows 7 only issue. The two company computers that the X-father in law uses are Vista's. I had used their fix to get a boot up from USB but it took two tries after that to get the computer back up.

My wife booted hers after she got home and it had the error some had spoke of that popped up and her machine is a Windows XP 32 bit machine. Her built in mouse failed to work on hers and took placing corded mouse on the laptop to get in and finally get it going.

We will be dumping AVG completely now...

As to resource hogging I cant say that I had ever noticed that.
 
I have had AVG for a few years on my primary computer (Windows XP) and had no problem. It was put on the computer by a repair shop. There have some viruses that AVG found that Norton didn't as I share files between computers. That being said, I have been notices to "update"y AVG the last couple of weeks and have blown them off.

Bill Hark
 
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