AVG FAKE ANTI VIRUS OR REAL?

Well it crashed my laptop last 2 years ago.
first came the taking hours too run even the scan was f****ed up. so i shut down my pc, got the blue screen of death and after fixing it, it would take 3 hours to boot up. Or was it zone alarm that did this to my pc? it's just as bad as malware alarm and yes dare i say it spysherriff.

never heard of avg crashing a computer. Or zone alarm for that matter.

its happened a lot of times specially with avg and zone alarm specially on older systems and windows xp
avg its has so many modules running that it hangs up the system sometimes causing its scanning takes forever to complete
zone alarm firewall almost blocked everything could not even browse for google i just thrashed both and switched to eset nod 32 which quick and easy on older systems

My scans would finish, but it gave me trojans and I kept getting the BSoD.. I deleted it but the trojans stayed.. :/

koushik · #3its happened a lot of times specially with avg and zone alarm specially on older systems and windows xp
avg its has so many modules running that it hangs up the system sometimes causing its scanning takes forever to complete
zone alarm firewall almost blocked everything could not even browse for google i just thrashed both and switched to eset nod 32 which quick and easy on older systems

been using AVG since i can remember, no problem so far.

Use Avast! It got free fire wall, the 5 shields, anti virus and fast scan

Avast is best anti virus program for me!

unqiueninja · #6Use Avast! It got free fire wall, the 5 shields, anti virus and fast scan

It's a network shield, not a firewall. The network shield scans incoming data for threats. But it doesnt block unwanted connections.

calvin_0 · #5been using AVG since i can remember, no problem so far.

Yes, same here.

I guess the topic starter had an older computer, as since AVG launched version 9.0 many older speced computer owners I know have complained about the AV eating up vast amounts of resources.

linkfan551 · #8It's a network shield, not a firewall. The network shield scans incoming data for threats. But it doesnt block unwanted connections.

I use the premium one for your information and not the free version.

Avg is one of if not the best free antivirus software. It finds stuff Norton doesnt.

norton finds very little.

i used to have norton but then i got Avg It's not that bad.

norton is a joke antivirus. It finds barely any virii, half the ones it does find it cant do anything about and the AV itself behaves like a virus (resource hogging and very hard to remove).

AVG is stupid and to think it would come up with there own use of money and time well spent. I use PANDA antivirus software and this stuff is alright. The only donwside to these softwares is the fact that they come out newer viruses are created in response so really what is the use. Hackers are the virus creator themselves and the antivirus software are made by theses suckers, who choose to work rather than do community service. If I was a hacker I'd rather do work.

I've never had any problems with AVG and I've been using it for years...

I have AVG on my computer and i have never had any problems with it. Right now i'm using my laptop with Sophos Antvirus which is quite good.

MSE is about the top free AV and KIS is about the top paid for security suite.A lot of security experts I know like Avast,but that didnt intercept files from my free tomtom map kit,but KIS did.......And whats this thread got to do with World News LOL

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I managegd to buy AVG as a prmotion.