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been getting a pop-up about upgrading from 8.5 to 9 (apparently 8.5 will be obselete come december). Anyway, upgraded, all seemed to be ok, then I started browsing. It was like wading through treacle, and watching YT vids was like stop-motion. Bringing up task manager showed that AVG was running the PC at 100%, taking up 84% of the whole processing power.

I`ll try re-installing, but won`t bother with the unnecessary crap

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After years of faithful service I had to uninstall AVG about six months ago after it kept doing something similar. Am using a combination of Avira and WinPatrol currently.

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I was also having trouble with AVG hogging all my CPU, so scrapped it in favour of Microsoft`s awesome Security Essentials.

Not only did it use far less resources, it also found 3 viruses/trojans that AVG was oblivious to. It`s getting better marks among experts than the previous king of anti-virus, NOD32.

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and watching YT vids was like stop-motion. Bringing up task manager showed that AVG was running the PC at 100%, taking up 84% of the whole processing power

I`ve had these exact problems with 8.5: AVG+YouTube made my computer need a little rest every 20 seconds. My previous "let`s run this thing into the ground" motto of computer use meant I barely switched my laptop off for 18 months straight, so the scan got done in the night, now I have it sleep while I do so that means AVG *completely* ruins my computery fun for up to *4* hours every day (oh for the days of a 15 minute scan). Even Windows sounds stutter it makes it so slow sometimes. I`ve disabled it and I`m going to uninstall - I`ve been an AVG user since 2000. :(

I currently have Avast, but I`m open to other recs.

Oh and Ad-Aware can f*** off too, just crashes whenever I try to update or run a scan on several computers.




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The only thing I really liked about AVG was the resident shield, but it was always crap at actually removing anything it alerted me about (Had some nasty rootkits the other day). I actually use Malwarebytes in safe mode, and regrun on reboot. works a treat

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Interesting, i switched to Avast from AVg a couple of year sago, as I got fed up with AVG becoming as bloaty as other Av products, but when I put Win 7 RC on my laptop I thought I`d give it a go, and I recently upgraded it to the latest free avg and I`ve had no problems, but I did turn off the internet link thing and browser toolbar thing, so maybe if you just install the avg virus scanner and not all the extra crap it`s ok.

I run avast on the main pc in XP, Comodo on my old pc, they both seem ok.

Simimlary to comments above, I`ve heard good things about AVira, and the new MS one.


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I just tried AVG with W7, it lasted a week because it let me run a virus that`s been out months, one even Microsoft Security Essentials noticed was bad.

Gone back to Avira.


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Brian, I owe you a beer. I installed avira after you suggested it, and one of the first things it did was find sdra64.exe hidden on my system. a quick google scared the s*** out of me, but I think I`ve thwarted it using 4 different programs. Scary thing is it`s a keylogger, so hopefully it hasn`t given any sensitive data to anyone nefarious

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Still using AVG but my machine is old and slow anyway.
I had to take Ad aware off as that froze everything up completely.

A friend of mine who knows about these things uses ESET though I haven`t tried it yet.

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I used to be with it, but then they changed what `it` was.
Now, what I`m with isn`t it, and what`s `it` seems weird and scary

I`m using Avast on my Win7 PC and think that`s pretty good.
Switched over from AvG a while back as well since.

Thankfully (touch wood) I`ve never encountered any virus on my machine, but I think that`s mainly because I`m very careful about what I look at and do on the PC (Firefox with "NoScript" installed generally helps for those pesky drive-by ones).