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Post by shadowmonty on Jan 20, 2010 9:57:06 GMT
AVG Residents shield keeps coming up when I go into spotify telling me I have a problem with spotify, I don't, but it won't accept it. I can turn it off that is AVG Residents shield, but is this the answer?
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Post by ken on Jan 20, 2010 10:32:26 GMT
AVG was made for steam driven computers. Why not try a antivirus like Avast that has been invented since the advent of electricity. You will find it works a lot better than that other old resource hog and your computer will run a lot better all round.
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Post by nike on Jan 20, 2010 11:45:38 GMT
That's a bit cruel Ken!
Just because AVG thought that they could turn EWIDO into something other than the fantastic program it was, after they purchased the company, and failed miserably after bastardising it to the point of making their finished article just like "N", there is no reason to bag their feeble effort, is there???
AVG 7.5 was a great product actually, then they dropped the ball !!!!!
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Post by ken on Jan 20, 2010 14:45:05 GMT
Dunno Kev; their attempts after 7.5, made me think that the "N" thing had become a silent partner. Although I thought the rot had started after 7.0.
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Post by Roz on Jan 20, 2010 15:20:23 GMT
I don't use AVG either these days, but read this thread on the AVG forums Monty. It tells at the top how to tell AVG to ignore something, but more importantly lower down it gives this address to send the file, so that they can analyse it and take it out of the database. virus@avg.com |
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Post by shadowmonty on Jan 20, 2010 18:33:44 GMT
Using Avast now on Windows 7 computers and AVG on xp computer, the thing I like about avg is if you do a search with google, the sites have ticks on them, it gives you confidence that you won't get an infection if you open one.
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Post by ken on Jan 21, 2010 10:24:32 GMT
Avast updates several times a day and if theres anything on a site Avast will block it and ask you what you want to do. Theres no need to be using Google to look things up. If Avast haven't got something on their list, you can bet your life Google wont have it either. You cant be 100% safe, no anti-virus in the world can anticipate what will come out and so they are always a bit behind the nasty writers. Most infected computer that I have looked at are running AVG and I have never found a badly infected computer running Avast. Saying that, I mean infections that anti-viruses are made to combat. There are infections that no anti-virus can fix, thats why it important to use anti-malware programs such as SAS and MBAM.
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Post by mikkh on Jan 21, 2010 10:39:56 GMT
Yes I concur with my learned colleague / Yup wot he said
(delete as applicable)
And the pointless virus vault - what's that all about? I remember fixing someone's PC that had 6000+ items in the virus vault - taking up a huge chunk of HD space in the process.
AVG + common sense was only ever barely adequate protection even in it's heyday and now it's added bloat to it's repertoire, it's next to useless
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