Anyones AVG 8 messing their computer?

Question

Well as everyone knows, AVG 8 was phased in a little while ago. However, this new ver. in my opinion is absolutely terrible. When it starts to scan, my computer lags tons. Running multiple windows, opening new tabs, watching Youtube and playing games. Even after a pause, games like Team Fortress 2 will freeze on loading screens and will only work after a computer reboot. Does anyone else have similar problems and have solutions? I still want to have an antivirus. I wish AVG would let us keep the old one but still have updates.

Answer 1

I always recommend the following be stored on computers and install them myself on any I repair.

Avast Home Edition http://avast.com

Run a full scan once a month. I find this the best free anti-virus software

SUPERantispyware http://superantispyware.com

Update and run a full scan once a week.

Spybot Search and Destroy http://safer-networking.org

Update, Immunize and scan once a week.

ccleaner http://ccleaner.com

Run the Cleaner scan and remove all it finds

Run the Registry scan and fix all issues but repeat this until nothing is detected.

Run this daily.

Comodo Firewall http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/

Some people just prefer the Windows one but this is better.

Check that you don't need to defragment monthly and also run a Disk Cleanup monthly too.

A good program for removing programs that seem to refuse to go no matter what you do is http://www.revouninstaller.com/index.htm... however be careful how you use this.

Feel free to email me if I can be of further help  

Answer 2

Scan after you're done using the computer.

Answer 3

google mcafee 8.5i enterprise update 6

and download the product.

Tell the others(all avg,norton and trend lovers) how it is here if possible !!

Answer 4

Tell everyone that you can get Kaspersky Antivirus free for 6 months and not mess up their computer with other junky softwares. For more information see below.

Answer 5

AVG made  a mistake with V8 and it's bloated, slow and inefficient. Interestingly, the longer AVG is on a machine, the longer it takes to scan, even if you have added nothing new, cleaned your history etc and defragged.

Consider changing to Avast 4 Home Free, anti-virus better definitions, anti-spyware and anti-rootkit built in, faster and more reliable:

http://www.download.com/Avast-Home-Editi...

Setup Guide:

http://cotojo.wordpress.com/2008/07/15

Comparisons:

http://www.av-comparatives.org/

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-compare-h...

http://free.avg.com/ww.download-avg-anti...

Answer 6

dont use avg use this

My top 4 antivirus

Nod32

Avast

Kaspersky

Zonealarm

Dont use, Avg,norton,mcafee because it may harm your computer