Problem with AVG anti-virus

I have been using the free version of AVG as an anti-virus program for several years now. AVG recently requested that I update the program and when I did my computer would not restart (my computer has since been fixed). My friend who also uses AVG had the same happen to him as well. Both of us have windows vista. Has anyone else had any recent problems with AVG?

 

Yes. Not that problem, but in the past year I have seen AVG result in serious system performance degradation. It began with version 9 and got worse with version 8.

After being a fan for many years, I can no longer recommend AVG....

 

I switched from AVG to Avast a year or so ago. AVG got ridiculously bloated and would slow older single core computers down to a crawl. I took it off one computer I was working on and boot time went from 35 minutes down to less than 2 minutes. No joke. The hard drive just kept thrashing and that was without any daily scanning enabled.

Avast just released a nice update. It works good and now it looks good too. Well worth checking out. It will be like getting a new computer the day you remove AVG and install Avast.

 

I recommend you remove AVG and replace it with MSE.
AVG became bloated, has lower detection rate and essentially became much worse compared to what it used to be.

Avast 5 is a pretty good program, though, I encountered a problem with it in the sense it crashes the OS a lot of the times (mostly when trying to update itself).
I first noticed it on my father's computer, then on others.
I replaced it with MSE and just left it at that.

Until that crashing issue is solved with Avast, stick with MSE or Avira 10

 

i had avg pro but now the licence has run out ive changed to avast pro.
never had a problem with it crashing yet and it updates a lot more than avg ever did.
also agree mse is quite good.

 

I had Avast before AVG, It seemed ok. I've heard about Avira but not too much about MSE. Between Avira and MSE which one would you recommend?

 

MSE.

It's Microsoft Security Essentials (made by Microsoft of course).
Integrates itself into the OS without issues, no resource drain or performance loss after you install it, and it has a high detection rate (small, light and highly effective).

MSE, Avira and Avast are rather comparable actually ... I just stick with MSE though.

 

i still have avg free is a couple of xp machines (i do not have it on any vista or win 7) which are aging gracefully and on a netbook. linkscanner is a disaster since it slows down browsing too much. browsing was normal speed after turning off linkscanner. other than linkscanner, avg free has done a good job for me.

i have not tried avast or avira since last year; i rejected both -- one was slow and the other hogged too much of the machines' limited resources.

i also use malwarebytes. avg used to miss some malware. however, since program updates late last year, malwarebytes rarely picks up anything after an avg scan.

 

Better yet, uninstall AVG and then install something more effective like Avira or Avast!

 

I removed AVG and installed Kaspersky after having issues with AVG paid version. I like Kaspersky alot better and it acually catches viruses instead of of just sitting there looking happy.

 

Avg became rather bad recently on all fronts.
Kapersky to my recollection has a tendency of slowing down the performance of the computer though.

For free solutions (that are comparable to paid ones in terms of protection), install either of the following: Avira 10, Avast 5 or Microsoft Security Eessentials.