Originally posted by sonhouseI've never run into the need of deactivate it.
I'm running AVG on this laptop, a differant machine than the one for pogo, and when I right click on the icon there is a line saying 'quit AVG control center'. Is that the one to click to turn it off temporarily? It brings up a screen that says you won't be able to manage components. Does that mean its turned off? It doesn't say unambiguously it goes off.
Click on Quit AVG Control Center. Then go to the active tasks list, and see if it is yet active. 🙂
- J
Originally posted by huckleberryhoundAVG is free. And it doesnt eat so many resources from yor machine as Norton does. If you have a good machine, don't worry. And be happy! 🙂 Continue with Norton.
Mines is norton, you have to pay for it, but its updated every day,and it works well.
I have a humble, 8 yo PII 266 😳 running win98 1st edition.
This oldie lot of crap runs 24/7 whithout needing a reboot. May be I'm too lucky 🙂
Cheers.
Originally posted by CrazyLilTingJust bought mine, so its flying away.
AVG is free. And it doesnt eat so many resources from yor machine as Norton does. If you have a good machine, don't worry. And be happy! 🙂 Continue with Norton.
I have a humble, 8 yo PII 266 😳 running win98 1st edition.
This oldie lot of crap runs 24/7 whithout needing a reboot. May be I'm too lucky 🙂
Cheers.
I just find the live updating useful, it not only tells me theres a virus or a hack attempt, but tells me its history and what it was trying to do.
To be fair, i just went with what was on the pc when i got it, and renewed it at the start of the year, but a friend of mine downloaded PUNISHER, even though he had aventis (i think that was what it was called).
Originally posted by belgianfreakWhen I used to work in tech support, 30% of the issues I dealt with were caused by Norton updates trashing people's systems.
just don't use Norton! I got conned into buying it by a deal on it and it's useless. I know I've got a pop-up causing virus but it can't find it, even though it's been on my system for weeks. I now don't dare use my PC for anything like shopping or banking for fear of what else it's not finding.
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Originally posted by Daemon Sini've came across a few programs, particularly file sharing ones (did i say that out loud?), that need you to turn off your security system, i just dont do it, maybe thats why i don't get many problems.
Well, obviously people with Norton didn't call up to tell me everything's working fine so I only really got half the story. There's probably a fair few users out there that it works brilliantly for, but I've only heard the bad stuff 😕
I don't use a wide variety of applications either, so maybe i just haven't fully tested it, but all its done so far for me, is catch the ball when i never seen it coming. . .so i can't fault it.
I have AVG, Norton (subscription recently expired) Ad-aware SE, Spybot and Spyware Doctor (CCleaner and Privacy Mantra for 'cleaning' purposes and Zone Alarm as the firewall) - the AVG freebie being the last one I downloaded last week.
Now Ad-aware freezes at the end of every scan on KB896688 (Windows update) which never happened before ... turning off every other of the above programs doesn't help ... 😕
Originally posted by treetalkYou should uninstall [or at least disable] Norton - it's unwise to run two AV programs at once.
I have AVG, Norton (subscription recently expired) Ad-aware SE, Spybot and Spyware Doctor (CCleaner and Privacy Mantra for 'cleaning' purposes and Zone Alarm as the firewall) - the AVG freebie being the last one I downloaded last week.
Now Ad-aware freezes at the end of every scan on KB896688 (Windows update) which never happened before ... turning off every other of the above programs doesn't help ... 😕