AVG signature update cripples Windows machines

[paglamon]

how do you disable the notification ad for the premium version after an update?

http://www.elitekiller.com/files/disable_antivir_nag.htm

I tried the Local Security Policy method to test. It worked perfectly.
But now I live with it. As Chewy rightly said, it is worth the nag.

[Chewy]

A friend/client's been using it(avira) since last spring when I reccomended it, he's had a few bouts with malware and somehow broke the autoupdate

Last week he suckered for some torrent program, and ended up with the new bad boy, antivirus pro 2009

Avira even with july definitions kept the system clean enough for me to boot into safe mode and run sdfix then manually load MBAM and defintions and finish the cleanup

Took about an hour

He's a retired law enforcement officer, I keep warning him about P2P

[ed klein]

@gonwk

I believe registryfix7 is one of the best to use and to learn about registry cleaning.

I have the un-registered (freeware version) which means you have to use REGEDIT command in your computer to manually remove the registry entries.

There pay version ($32. I think) for registered version will remove the registry entries automatically for you with just the press of a button.


But like ANY registry cleaner, do a restore point before you use the registry cleaners, so in case of a mistake removal you can go back to your restore point with no problems.

I have never had to go back to the restore point using registryfix7 it has always been a good engineered product for correct and not too agressive removal.

Its also user friendly, and you will have to re-boot before the registry changes will take effect. It works for me.

[Westly32]

http://www.elitekiller.com/files/dis...ntivir_nag.htm

I tried the Local Security Policy method to test. It worked perfectly.
But now I live with it. As Chewy rightly said, it is worth the nag.

A friend/client's been using it(avira) since last spring when I reccomended it, he's had a few bouts with malware and somehow broke the autoupdate

Last week he suckered for some torrent program, and ended up with the new bad boy, antivirus pro 2009

Avira even with july definitions kept the system clean enough for me to boot into safe mode and run sdfix then manually load MBAM and defintions and finish the cleanup

Took about an hour

Thanks for the advice about Avira..I'll just live with the pop up then.
And about antivirus pro, that thing showed up on my sister's computer. Nothing I tried got rid of it, and she wound up taking the pc in to a shop for repair.

[Chewy]

Nothing I tried got rid of it

I could have reccomended a few tricks even for a fully infected computer

the shop just reloaded windows I would suspect

[rago88]

Hey Blu,

Been using free Avast for past couple years...
always on top of things with at least 1-2 updates per week..
Like how the software " audio speaks" to you when it has updated..
Never a problem since using it..

[doctorhardware]

At bad buy, and the ungeek squad, if the computer is so badly infected. What will happen next, there is a time limit to spend on the computer. When that limit is exceeded, what would happen next is the customer will be called, and tell them that the OS needs to be reinstalled. So the next step is to charge them for an OS reinstall on top of the virus removal and another charge for a data backup. So the moral of the story do not go to bad buy when your computer is infected. You will pay at least $200 if not more. The software that is used is all freeware, that you can download yourself and remove the problems for free.