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Posted by on May 7, 2008, 7:04 am
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options > XP Home. AVG v. 8.0.100 installed over 7.5, toolbar not installed.
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> 1. At system startup the resident scanner process (avgrsx.exe) runs
> fluctuating at near to full CPU usage for almost three minutes, making the=
> system unusable for this time and doubling the boot interval. I can find
> nowhere in advanced settings to turn off this boot / startup scan. Also at=
> rest the memory commit has risen by around 25 mb since install.
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> 2. I prefer to update manually and not by schedule and so have disabled th=
e
> update manager which puts a red exclaimation mark over the AVG tray monito=
r
> which is unsightly and would cover any real error notification. Same is tr=
ue
> for disabling any other module, such as the linkscanner or e-mail scanner.=
> Version 7.5 had a means to turn off similar systray false error messages
> which were in fact user selectable preferences.
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> 3. Scanning any file via the shell extension throws up the main user
> interface showing the total shell extension scan results which feels like =
an
> ad together with two tray notifications, the first of which says only that=
> the shell extension has been started and the second gives the results. The=
> tray notications can be turned off in settings but I can find no way to st=
op
> the main interface jumping on screen and also can not kill the obvious
> 'shell extension was started' popup without also removing the results tray=
> notification.
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> 4. When the user interface is opened it appears to select excitingly rando=
m
> screen locations unrelated to the last position it took at close and often=
> partly off screen. Also the hide notification for the fun promotional
> info-block at the base of the interface only holds for that incarnation an=
d
> deselects for the next show.
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> If I have missed any solutions to these problems I would be very grateful =
to
> know. Thanks.
>
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Just upgraded to AVG 8.0 and immediately uninstalled it!!
Having been and supporter of AVG for many years it seems they have now
lost the plot completely with 8.0. After installation it immediately
became obvious that applications ran slower, but worse still it locked-
up our company's wireless router/firewall crashing everyone out, must
be a kind of traffic overload! Whatever the cause, deactivating AVG
had no effect, but the moment it was uninstalled everything worked
again as normal.
There is now way that I can afford to let AVG cripple my PC's
performance this way, in fact it would be quicker to install AVG, run
a full virus scan and then uninstall it for the times that a full
system scan is required. The attraction of AVG was that it could be
turned on/off at will, what=92s the point of buying a quad core system
just have it become a virus checker!
AVG has now joined the ranks of Norton Symantec which was ditched same
reason - it interfered with the OS too much and couldn=92t be simply be
deactivated. Norton was worse though it permanently damaged Windows
which needed a full HD format and re-install.
Perhaps a "Yoggie" system would be better? Sadly I've never met anyone
who has used it or recommended it.
Anyway can we have the old AVG back? To be honest I liked AVG and
nearly bought it, the reason I didn=92t was over the worry about the
full version hooking into everything, how glad I am now that I didn=92t!
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