AVG slowdown?

I could be wrong, usually am, but since installing the pay-for version of AVG 7.5 from Grisoft, on both my wife's pc and mine --- it allows up to 3 puters and also gives a CD-ROM --- am pretty sure it is the cause of a marked slowdown. Very marked.

Am reluctant to uninstall before I read experiences of other users this forum. btw we do have F-Prot to fall back on.

I cannot help wondering if the slowdown may not be due to updating (which is a lengthy business). Have tried to find out a way of re-scheduling updates from auto-upon-boot to a manual-when-it-suits-me but no joy with this idea. I also suspect, really suspect, it also scans the entire pc as soon as boot completes and that takes serious time and uses serious resources. We are both letting it run its spam-scanner for OE6 and also provide a firewall.

Any thoughtz plz guyz and thanx. Bruce +++

Edited by BruceThief37 (Sat 08-Mar-08 13:46:27)

I also used the paid for version of AVG (2 laptops and a desktop).. Can't say I have noticed any kind of slowdown, except when the scan is running.. Must admit, I normally cancel it on the laptop but the desktop runs 24/7 so the scan is done at 3AM..

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it also scans the entire pc as soon as boot completes and that takes serious time and uses serious resources.

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I think that is an option which can be deselected on initial instalation.

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I think that is an option which can be deselected on initial instalation.

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Even if you can't you can change it later. From memory it defaults to doing a full scan daily, which takes quite a while, does slow things down, and isn't IMHO necessary.

Sorry I'm on a Linux box or I'd look up where you can change that setting.

Control Center > Scheduler > disable the "test plan is basic mode" task.

Thank you Jon. Have disabled the setting that scans the two pc's on startup and will report back to this forum in a few days when the result has permated what remains of my grey matter. My wife however is much faster to scream at me when anything is wrong! And she has. Bruce +++

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... & of course a sharp piece of string

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I dread to think what your better half will do with that string if you don't speed things up...

Here is my final post but always pleased to read your commentz chapz. My wife & I are now back on F-Prot antivirus having dumped AVGv7.5 because both our pc's were getting slower & slower. As you know, AVG features anti-virus, anti-spam, anti-spyware and provides a replacement firewall for Windows' one which it auto-disables. The lethargy was increasing, perhaps as updates are accumulated?

My pc was definitely slowing down to load applications and boot was occupying much more time. My wife's pc took ages to load say W2000 and eventually became unbootable!

It took me a whole hour this afternoon to get her to the far end of the boot and then only by giving it the 3-finger salute when I found the CPU was marking time on the spot at 100% and the seven or so AVG running processes were taking 99% depending on which one I selected. Almost as fast as I stopped one running process (End Now) it then switched itself to another AVG and that too at 99% but fortunately after say 5 seconds delay.

The delay enabled me to grab a few clock cycles --- 'tis the way I clumsily understand it --- before AVG restarted another of the unremovable processes and that smidgen of the CPU enabled me to oh-so-slowly work my way thru the stages of Settings>Add & Remove and then finally get it to actually un-install AVG. Nice one Grisoft?

Reboot and wow, look at the speed, kiss my monitor, 'tis a blur.......

Wife now seriously pleased with rapidity which applications load, and boot back to zip-flash, was that a black screen I briefly saw? My pc likewise. Both have F-Prot again, both have Windows firewall, but neither have say Spamhilator back yet (which last was not a resource grabber in our experience).

I would be most interested to read any explanations posted this thread. CD now winging its way back to Amazon. Not a treasured experience, this Czech AVG encounter. Bruce +++

Hi Bruce, Norton and AVG slowed down my PC too much, so I switched to free �Avast� and never looked back.

I download it without skins to keep it very light, it starts with the simple interface skin which is the default one that looks like a media player, to get rid of that, from �Program Settings� un check [Enable skins for Simple User Interface] and you get a real plain easy to use interface, and each morning you have a friendly voice with, ding-dong �Virus database has been updated�.

Free, Avast! version 4.7 Home Edition read the reviews (here) and (here).

I installed a 775Ghz machine with 128Mb RAM with XP Pro and it ran well until I installed AVG Free. Then it slowed to a walking pace. With AVG it took 205 seconds to boot compared with 45 seconds without AVG. Removal of AVG bought it back to top speed.
I then installed Avast and it does not interfere with the opening and closing of programs.
My thoughts are that AVG has become too big (60Mb download) and is not suitable for computers less than 1.6Ghz and less than 1GB RAM.