Ramblings, opinions, and general meanderings from the Deep South

Saturday, November 04, 2006

Problems with AVG 7.5?

AVG Anti-Virus is in the process of changing to version 7.5. They will stop support on the recent 7.1 version in January 2007. Recently I upgraded to the newer version and upon booting the computer takes forever with AVG doing something in the background. This has been going on for a week and has not stopped. If it does not cease I'll switch to Avast and recommend that to all my clients. It seems that even though the software has been told to scan at a specific time the program will run a scan immediately after boot if it was turned off during the scheduled time. Sorry, this just won't work. It's MY computer and I'll decide when something runs. Will keep you posted. In the meantime, stick with the older version. It's controllable. One important note about all this, AVG does provide this edition as a FREE service controllable or not.

Have you had such problems? Right now I kill the avg.exe process and turn off the control center. This PC rarely goes to unknown sites and GMail is in use so it's not in great danger. Let me hear from you.

"Choices are the hinges of destiny."
-Markham

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