Turned my computer on this morning, a little balloon popped up from the toolbar saying that my AVG is switched off. Fine, click to open AVG and it takes ages to load up.. When I finally manage to open it up, I notice that my update manager is in 'red' therefore turning off AVG/its firewall. Again, the program is really laggy, have to wait a minute once I've pressed a button for it to respond.
Its just about to update and then windows closes the program, stops the update and gives me a error report

If anyone runs AVG on the system, do you ever get this??

I've got a spare edition of *Jesus*Norton anti-virus*Christ* which I'm wary of putting on my comp until I get any credible answers.

Any ideas?

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I used to use AVG and i had pretty much the same probs you have

Switched over to Avast! and it works brilliantly

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i think the free edition of avg only has a limited time in which you can use the active shield, it must have run out of time?

i used to use avg aswell but i now have nod32 which is the best i've used so far

i'll pm you

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The banhammer thirsts for tards | There is no 'overkill'. There is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload'.

Only use AVG's free anti vir. No problems - did you install the pro version or something?

If in any doubt, install Kaspersky with their 30 day free trial.
That'll tide you over nicely until you've checked your comp, and reinstalled or switched to another Anti Vir.

I remember i swapped to Avast a long time ago, but there's a reason I chose AVG and I came back to it (top 5 free Anti Vir, AVG always ahead of Avast!).
I don't use their firewall though, Comodo all the way

Tjolbi set me up with nod32, so I've got that up an running at the moment. Done a scan and got rid of some crap so its a start!

Thanks Tjolbi

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no problem mate

glad i could help

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The banhammer thirsts for tards | There is no 'overkill'. There is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload'.

hmm

i've never had problems with it but then again, i wouldn't notice if it had

one of the main reasons i use this one is because it doesn't ruin your computer by using half your cpu and half your ram in basic screening mode

might not be the best but it's the one i like best from all the ones i've tried (and cba to change again either )

if anyone else wants kaspersky though, i can sort it out ...

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The banhammer thirsts for tards | There is no 'overkill'. There is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload'.

am surprised at that NOD32 review, its not crap by any means

But for me, its Kaspersky, even though recently it f**kin deleted explorer.exe

Dr.Strangelove - where's me fekkin desktop

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wtf

how retarded is that xD


have you found a fix yet? (using someone elses explorer.exe?)

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The banhammer thirsts for tards | There is no 'overkill'. There is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload'.

grab the exe from the laptop, it works kind of

yeah it actually deleted mine when it shouldnt have or that might have been just me
as the it was kickin off


http://www.kaspersky.com/support/viruse ... =208279581

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hahaha

at least they provided a fix aswell (for those that didn't outright delete it )

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The banhammer thirsts for tards | There is no 'overkill'. There is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload'.

False positives do occur, it happens - although that's probably the best one i've heard

However, never met an anti virus product that just deletes Usually they require user input into what action to undertake, I'm sure most do...


So did you click on delete

How users are supposed to find the site without their usual interface though

it all happened so fast and because of the dodgy update everytime i said explorer.exe was
ok, it had other plans and got deleted (by me) in the confusion

Ctrl&Alt&Del >
File >
New Task >
type an URL > or
Browse >

was well impressed with myself when i did the above,
just guessed it all and thought,
OMFG I'm a G33K

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mmmmYou sir, are a swaggering addlepated jackanapes!
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Talking about people who don't know their arse from elbow when it comes to computers
How are they supposed to find the site when they've not go their usual interface
Glad you got it sorted though