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Title: AVG 2011
Post by: Jimbob on 06 October 2010, 12:27:29

Installed the new version of AVG a day or 2 ago, thought all was fine, then I noticed my keyboard had gone faulty, kept on missing letters, the odd webpage would stop loading halfway though.

I have just disabled AVG, and everything is perfect again.

grrrrr, uninstall on, and time for a new AV provider.

Title: Re: AVG 2011
Post by: Chris_H on 06 October 2010, 12:37:30

I've just gone to Avira from AVG.  Too soon to give a recommendation but they were recommended to me by some technical document somewhere.

I dropped AVG because I thought they might have been responsible for highjacking me from Google to Yahoo but that may have been Java that did that.  Unjust of me perhaps but you can't trust anyone these days.

Title: Re: AVG 2011
Post by: Mysteryman on 06 October 2010, 12:44:59

AVG is a memory-hungry beast. Avast from avira much easier to use and runs in the background without any hassle. But.....update manually. If you choose auto update, it takes over your PC for about 5 mins after you boot up before announcing in a very loud American voice "Avast virus database has been updated" ;D

Title: Re: AVG 2011
Post by: Jimbob on 06 October 2010, 12:56:41

grrrrr uninstall failed, looks like its kill it the hard way  >:(

Title: Re: AVG 2011
Post by: Psychoca on 06 October 2010, 12:59:00

I personally use ESET NOD32 Security, which is pretty good and runs very well in the background...

I have used Kaspersky Internet Security which is also very good, just a little heavier on the resources...

McAffee is about as much use as a chocolate fireguard, Norton is very resource intensive...  I used to like AVG, but, went downhill about 3 years ago and started causing big system problems... 

Title: Re: AVG 2011
Post by: Chris_H on 06 October 2010, 13:02:57

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AVG is a memory-hungry beast. Avast from avira much easier to use and runs in the background without any hassle. But.....update manually. If you choose auto update, it takes over your PC for about 5 mins after you boot up before announcing in a very loud American voice "Avast virus database has been updated" ;D

Interesting.  I have auto updates on and am surprised how often it reports them.  I have the Premium edition on three PCs.

Title: Re: AVG 2011
Post by: aaronjb on 06 October 2010, 13:04:12

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I personally use ESET NOD32 Security, which is pretty good and runs very well in the background...

That's what I was about to recommend, too..

(Or "Buy a Mac"  ;D )

Title: Re: AVG 2011
Post by: CaptainZok on 06 October 2010, 13:19:10

Anyone else using the freebie security essentials from Microshaft?

Title: Re: AVG 2011
Post by: Jimbob on 06 October 2010, 13:32:32

Avast installed (and voice alerts turned off in settings  :y )

See how this goes for a bit.

Title: Re: AVG 2011
Post by: steve_daly on 06 October 2010, 13:49:09

Been using AVG for years and years, never one problem.

Title: Re: AVG 2011
Post by: Jimbob on 06 October 2010, 13:52:24

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Been using AVG for years and years, never one problem.

Me too....till this week  >:(  :y

Title: Re: AVG 2011
Post by: CaptainZok on 06 October 2010, 14:01:43

Got sick of AVG reporting that it was disabled but not allowing me to enable some time ago so it got binned. The MS freebie seems fine and not very resource hungry or intrusive.

Title: Re: AVG 2011
Post by: Gaffers on 06 October 2010, 14:28:32

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Avast installed (and voice alerts turned off in settings  :y )

See how this goes for a bit.

Been using it for about a year now and few complaints :y

Title: Re: AVG 2011
Post by: Plomien on 06 October 2010, 17:05:30

used Avast for years and not had any issues :y

Title: Re: AVG 2011
Post by: Del Boy on 06 October 2010, 18:51:29

No issues with AVG 2011 here  :y

Title: Re: AVG 2011
Post by: Mysteryman on 06 October 2010, 20:49:30

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No issues with AVG 2011 here  :y

Dont pretend you know about computers Del.

Title: Re: AVG 2011
Post by: Martin_1962 on 06 October 2010, 22:55:41

Avast :y

Title: Re: AVG 2011
Post by: Del Boy on 06 October 2010, 23:10:10

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No issues with AVG 2011 here  :y

Dont pretend you know about computers Del.

I've got an MVQ 17 in computer science actually, honest  ::)

Title: Re: AVG 2011
Post by: Martin_1962 on 06 October 2010, 23:15:58

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No issues with AVG 2011 here  :y

Dont pretend you know about computers Del.

I've got an MVQ 17 in computer science actually, honest  ::)

So you don't ;D ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: AVG 2011
Post by: Del Boy on 07 October 2010, 00:15:26

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No issues with AVG 2011 here  :y

Dont pretend you know about computers Del.

I've got an MVQ 17 in computer science actually, honest  ::)

So you don't ;D ;D ;D ;D

Not a clue  ;D ;D

Title: Re: AVG 2011
Post by: henryd on 07 October 2010, 09:54:52

I run avast on my work computer(xp) and my home laptop (vista),no problems at all

Title: Re: AVG 2011
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 07 October 2010, 20:06:46

fed up of all >:( >:( currently using nothing on home..

all back ups handy on cds.. nothing critical on pcs (3)

if any will collapse, I will re-install within an hour..

(one is already off from network and web)