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That's a bit more than a glitch though. QA AVG?
Anyway, all the more reason to use MSE.
NOD32 FTW:clapping:
bugger, installed that update and shutdown my laptop. I haven't tried to restart it yet.
Glad I didn't update then! Started a thread here about it, I was put off by the sheer size of it, but that it seems should have been the least of my worries!
AVG is uselessly slow at scanning in my experience, so I avoid it.
I moved over to avast a while go, glad a did from the sound of this.
Interesting - i have Win7 and AVG with the update...no issue for me.
I've found AVG very poor at detecting malware anyway, I'm always trying to get rind of malware on PCs using AVG, it just doesn't seem to stop anything.
I know they say stuff like this happens but surely someone should have noticed something this big in testing - they do test huge updates, right?
Having serviced many PCs for years now, I've noticed that Avira and Avast seem to do a pretty good job of keeping their software fast. Or at least fast enough. MS Security Essentials seems to be a touch heavier on the CPU load, so I wouldn't put it on a single-core system. But even on first-gen dual-core CPU systems with 1GB of RAM and Windows XP, it works perfectly well enough.
AVG has been slow since v8. It's become even slower now with this 2011 iteration. Don't bother, install one of the other three I've mentioned and you'll be better off.
I put MSE on a single core, works fine, wouldn't even notice it was there.
No way, AVG breaking unbreakable Windows 7 machines? That has to be some sort of achievement?
Who's at fault?
If this had happoned to me this week I would have been gutted as I have only just reinstalled win 7 due to buying a ssd.
and the moral of the story is simply DONT USE AVG :)
irony of an anti viri program breaking a pc!
Haha yeah. For people that don't have any personal details on their PC this would be no different to getting a bad virus!Quote:
Originally Posted by binaryknight