Microsoft Security Essentials

[apple]

I recently installed this,thinking i'd have a change from AVG,and is it normal for it to be making like short scanning noises on my hard drive even when its not running scans.

at first i thought my drive was failing,but as soon as i uninstalled morro its fine again.

avg never did this!

 

Thanks

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I recently installed this,thinking i'd have a change from AVG,

 

Did you Un install AVG first AVG Antivirus and Security Software - Tools download

 

if not then try removing AVG completely first as running two Antivirus applications quite often causes conflicts that prevent them working properly.

[apple]

no its the only AV on my PC.

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Did you Un install AVG first AVG Antivirus and Security Software - Tools download

 

you never answered this question, if you just used the Microsoft Uninstall programs feature of windows then their is a high possibility that some files and registry entries were not completely removed !!!

 

if not then try removing AVG completely first as running two Antivirus applications quite often causes conflicts that prevent them working properly.

 

I'd advise you to do this anyway, as AVG 9 free edition will quite often allow your system to get infected then will not be able to remove the infection and suggest you upgrade to the paid version.

 

where as if you use something like Avast or Avira it will prevent the infection, and remove any you may already have.

[Tootech]

to be making like short scanning noises on my hard drive even when its not running scans

 

No its not normal - its very quiet and unobtrusive in operation.....unlike AVG!

[muppet rebecca]

I agree you need to make sure that AVG has fully un-installed off your system even when you've used windows add/remove programs feature. You go into run > regedit and you'll notice that there might still be a couple of avg keys hanging around but don't do that if your not a confident regedit user. You'd be better getting a program like tweaknow power pack on the computer that can uninstall programs and clean the registry along with junk files. Another thing you would be better off with another av program and the person who posted about avast and avira speaks true.