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How To Waste 4 Hours (Thanks Windoze & Avg)
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<blockquote data-quote="ProDave" data-source="post: 353301" data-attributes="member: 6969"><p>Only a short job today so an afternoon off. NOT</p><p></p><p>last night Mrs PD's lappy, the one I've complained about before, running windoze vista and AVG anti virus, received an AVG update and it then requested a re boot. But it wouldn't boot up, it gets part way and crashes with a blue screen of death.</p><p></p><p>So my afternoon off was spent fixing it.</p><p></p><p>I soon found it would boot up in safe mode okay, but would repeatedly crash if you try and start it in normal mode.</p><p></p><p>After disk checking and stuff like that, nothing found.</p><p></p><p>So I ran that good old favourite Malware Bytes anti malware. It crashed when it got to scanning C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEMPROFILE\APPDATA\LOCAL\AVG2014\log\avgmf.log.lock and it did that twice scanning the same file.</p><p></p><p>Hmm so it started crashing immediately after an AVG update, and scanning a particular AVG file crashes Malware bytes.</p><p></p><p>So using MS config, I disabled all referenced to AVG in startup, and now it booted fine.</p><p></p><p>So AVG has now been uninstalled. I sent this same report to them to say why I uninstalled it.</p><p></p><p>So now it's running quicker than a quick thing for once now it has no anti virus software on it. I've enabled Microsoft security essentials. Is that enough or should I be looking for a different anti virus program for it?</p><p></p><p>What puzzles me is it would seem an AVG update bu99ered the computer, but you think the net would be alive with it if they had just sent out a dud update?</p><p></p><p>EDIT</p><p></p><p>I've just googled "AVG update crashes my computer" and found this is a problem that's been going on for years. Sounds like it's best to avoid using AVG at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ProDave, post: 353301, member: 6969"] Only a short job today so an afternoon off. NOT last night Mrs PD's lappy, the one I've complained about before, running windoze vista and AVG anti virus, received an AVG update and it then requested a re boot. But it wouldn't boot up, it gets part way and crashes with a blue screen of death. So my afternoon off was spent fixing it. I soon found it would boot up in safe mode okay, but would repeatedly crash if you try and start it in normal mode. After disk checking and stuff like that, nothing found. So I ran that good old favourite Malware Bytes anti malware. It crashed when it got to scanning C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEMPROFILE\APPDATA\LOCAL\AVG2014\log\avgmf.log.lock and it did that twice scanning the same file. Hmm so it started crashing immediately after an AVG update, and scanning a particular AVG file crashes Malware bytes. So using MS config, I disabled all referenced to AVG in startup, and now it booted fine. So AVG has now been uninstalled. I sent this same report to them to say why I uninstalled it. So now it's running quicker than a quick thing for once now it has no anti virus software on it. I've enabled Microsoft security essentials. Is that enough or should I be looking for a different anti virus program for it? What puzzles me is it would seem an AVG update bu99ered the computer, but you think the net would be alive with it if they had just sent out a dud update? EDIT I've just googled "AVG update crashes my computer" and found this is a problem that's been going on for years. Sounds like it's best to avoid using AVG at all. [/QUOTE]
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