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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: twiglet on 18 September 2012, 22:03:03
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Got a couple of fairly old PC's running AVG at the moment, and it seems to be making them run like dogs... Time to bin it I think.
Can anyone recommend a decent AV problem that will protect without slowing them to a crawl?
TIA :y
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are you sure you havent got any other probs there?
iv been useing avg for years without a worry.
what os are you running?
you gould download a registry cleaner, windows just loves to clutter things up in there.
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AVG got the reputation for slowing systems down a while back ... seems that "avast free" works pretty well, I use it and have .. so far .. had no problems
http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download
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I dumped AVG for the same reason
Been running Mircosoft Essentials for a few months now with no problems.
As for Reg Cleaners, your best bet is to just re install windows
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very true, a reinstall is the safest, just remember to save your bookmarks and any other stuff you want to a memory stick.
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I mostly use MS Security Essentials now, with a weekly run of the freebie Maylwarebytes.
AVG went bloaty, and Avast thought I was breaking the terms of their free licence.
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Been using Avira free for a while now on all my PC's and seems pretty good :y
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honestly whatever you use, sooner or later you will get some infection or the software itself mess up something.. I have concluded that those companies dont offer good scanner/protector software for free.. :( tried them all , sooner or later I had to download another for some reason >:(
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I use Avast, but Microsoft security essentials is good as well.
I had used Avira and a friend swore by it until it started letting viruses through as it wasn't updated frequently enough