AVG 8.5 hijacking the 'net on me
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Use Avira or even better AVAST!
I tried installing AVG on someone's laptop for them (since it was a occassional use computer and paying for Norton or what not was not worth it).
I noticed right away I didn't like the new AVG. While I didn't get error pages for sites, I wasn't, however, able to get online AT ALL. This had never happened with passed versions of AVG. After uninstalling, the laptop was able to re-connect to the internet. PEople here used to agree with people like me -- AVG was the best free anti-virus -- but with their last two versions, I don't think it's that way anymore.
I used to reccomend Spybot as one of the best two free spyware programs. But every time with the last two versions I ran it, it never found anything. That's impossible since two other programs show there are things. I am thinking Spybot sold out.
Now the only thing I can recommend for spyware is Ad-Aware (from Lavasoft). While I never cared for little changes and the re-design, it's been consistantly a good free program. Down side: it deletes all my log-in cookies.
I noticed right away I didn't like the new AVG. While I didn't get error pages for sites, I wasn't, however, able to get online AT ALL. This had never happened with passed versions of AVG. After uninstalling, the laptop was able to re-connect to the internet. PEople here used to agree with people like me -- AVG was the best free anti-virus -- but with their last two versions, I don't think it's that way anymore.
I used to reccomend Spybot as one of the best two free spyware programs. But every time with the last two versions I ran it, it never found anything. That's impossible since two other programs show there are things. I am thinking Spybot sold out.
Now the only thing I can recommend for spyware is Ad-Aware (from Lavasoft). While I never cared for little changes and the re-design, it's been consistantly a good free program. Down side: it deletes all my log-in cookies.
If you don't mind Google spying on your browsing habits
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Amaris
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I tried installing AVG on someone's laptop for them (since it was a occassional use computer and paying for Norton or what not was not worth it).
I noticed right away I didn't like the new AVG. While I didn't get error pages for sites, I wasn't, however, able to get online AT ALL. This had never happened with passed versions of AVG. After uninstalling, the laptop was able to re-connect to the internet. PEople here used to agree with people like me -- AVG was the best free anti-virus -- but with their last two versions, I don't think it's that way anymore.
I used to reccomend Spybot as one of the best two free spyware programs. But every time with the last two versions I ran it, it never found anything. That's impossible since two other programs show there are things. I am thinking Spybot sold out.
Now the only thing I can recommend for spyware is Ad-Aware (from Lavasoft). While I never cared for little changes and the re-design, it's been consistantly a good free program. Down side: it deletes all my log-in cookies.
You know, I don't even recommend Ad-Aware anymore. They've bloated out too. The program is huge for something so simple, the resources it takes are immense for something so simple. The program also stays in memory and uses RAM constantly, even when not "in use". I can't recommend anything better though for right now, except maybe Spybot Search & Destroy, but even it's not as good as Ad-Aware.
J.
Was that 8.5 or earlier? I couldn't get online, period and had to rely on my iPhone hopping onto my wireless network to even get online. I thought my wireless thing on my XP had died of old age.
But I found out after dumping AVG that, nope, it was AVG.
Ah, it was the latest version. This was only about two weeks ago.
On one of our machines, it won't run the newer versions of ad-aware except in safe mode.
Besides ad-aware and spybot, I also use spywareblaster (Not sure how good it is, but it doesn't seem to create any issues) and superantispyware free edition.
I also had Peerguardian 2 on at one point
AVG 8.5 is still fine for me at the moment, but I'll grab the other AV software just in case
I use AVG, ad-aware, and Spybot S&D. After far as double checking what the other programs have missed, this is a pretty good combination. I haven't had any real problems besides AVG occassionally deciding that a good link or address is dead.
AVG's bloatware had been getting on my nerves for some time. I've noticed sinced uninstalling it and trying Avira (still have not tried Avast! yet) that pages load faster like they used to. I guess it's because Avira doesn't bog down the system nearly as much or scan everything every time I click a link. Sometimes that's a good thing but it repeatedly does it to a point of aggravation.
All Seeing Eye
Admiral
I downloaded the newest AVG last weekend, and since I got it (and Lord knows I had an alternative) I've noticed that when I try to go to a new site, I get a redirect from some stupid AVG search that tells me it supposedly can't find the site I'm looking for.
I'm talking about sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, really hard to find ones. The AVG web page, with a white page, links in blue and a big assed "error" page that I get redirected to has a link where I supposedly can go directly to Google or whatever. When I click on that, I can get to Google.
I deleted the first DL of AVG, and then reinsatlled it on my computer. Same thing happened. When I do the setup, I don't click to allow AVG to install its stupid toolbar or whatever it wants to put on my computer, yet I saw last night that it had installed the AVG toolbar.
Has anyone else had problems with AVG pulling this crap? I know it's AVG since the web address starts with AVG.
And on a a possibly related note, the spellcheck for Firefox isn't working.
Ok I dunno if anyone has already told you or not cos I aint read the thread but there is a way to stop this. The next time the page cannot be found page comes up there is a link you can click to turn off AVG page search. That will forever stop this from happening again. I was having the same problem.
AVG wite search is enabled and it doesn't work right so keeps saying page not found so the simple way to stop it is to just turn it off by the following the link on the "not found" page.
Weird, I've never had any of these problems with AVG; my only problem with it is that it's a memory hog and slows down my machine.
SpyBot still seems to work, as far as I can tell. Ad-Aware works too, but it takes for-freaking-ever. I have to run it overnight, it takes so long....
SpyBot still seems to work, as far as I can tell. Ad-Aware works too, but it takes for-freaking-ever. I have to run it overnight, it takes so long....
Do you know if there's a reason for that? I run scans with AVG, Ad-aware, and Spybot all at the same time, and usually finish all scans within an hour.
All Seeing Eye
Admiral
Oh and as for the spell checker I know it's a silly question but have you right clicked in the text box and enabled it? Also even if you have sometimes it won't spell check the whole thing you've typed which is something i've noticed so what you have to do is right click and unable it and then enable it again and it will check the entire text written.
Good question. For me, SpyBot usually finishes in about a half hour, while Ad-Aware takes at least a couple of hours. If I ran them both together, it would probably take a day.
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Amaris
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Good question. For me, SpyBot usually finishes in about a half hour, while Ad-Aware takes at least a couple of hours. If I ran them both together, it would probably take a day.
I'm not entirely positive myself. I just figure it's bloat, just like Avira and Norton scan for the exact same things and Avira is done in half the time and finds a virus where Norton takes twice as long and finds nothing. Every software has it's day, and I think Ad-Aware is at it's sunset.
J.
doubleohfive
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There is a link on those pages to that effect, but I kept getting an error message from Firefox saying that it couldn't find it or something to that effect. So I couldn't find a way to turn it off.
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