Wierdness after AVG 8.0 up grade

[Guest Anthony Diodati]

Not sure if it's related,but after AVG 8.0 up grade, google advanced search

seems to be acting strange.

Maybe I would be better at an IE group, sorry if this is not the correct

group to post this.

Takes a long time to search, and any "find" I go to I get a lot of slow

downs, and Internet explorer cannot display the web page, also then seems to

affect other pages I have open.

If I close all my IE windows, and open a new one, all seems fine again.

Don't know if it's related to AVG or not.

Or could google advanced search have an issue.

Am running IE 7. No problems with it till now.

Thanks, Tony

[Guest Malke]

Re: Wierdness after AVG 8.0 up grade

 

Anthony Diodati wrote:

> Not sure if it's related,but after AVG 8.0 up grade, google advanced

> search seems to be acting strange.

> Maybe I would be better at an IE group, sorry if this is not the correct

> group to post this.

> Takes a long time to search, and any "find" I go to I get a lot of slow

> downs, and Internet explorer cannot display the web page, also then seems

> to affect other pages I have open.

> If I close all my IE windows, and open a new one, all seems fine again.

> Don't know if it's related to AVG or not.

> Or could google advanced search have an issue.

> Am running IE 7. No problems with it till now.

> Thanks, Tony

 

Apparently quite a few people are having difficulties with AVG 8.0. The

right place to post is in their user forum. Go to AVG's website and look

for their forums.

 

Malke

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[Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Re: Wierdness after AVG 8.0 up grade

 

AVG Free Support Forum

http://freeforum.avg.com/

 

[it's prolly LinkScanner that's causing the slowdown.]

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MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002

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DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

 

 

Anthony Diodati wrote:

> Not sure if it's related,but after AVG 8.0 up grade, google advanced

> search

> seems to be acting strange.

> Maybe I would be better at an IE group, sorry if this is not the correct

> group to post this.

> Takes a long time to search, and any "find" I go to I get a lot of slow

> downs, and Internet explorer cannot display the web page, also then seems

> to

> affect other pages I have open.

> If I close all my IE windows, and open a new one, all seems fine again.

> Don't know if it's related to AVG or not.

> Or could google advanced search have an issue.

> Am running IE 7. No problems with it till now.

> Thanks, Tony

[Guest Big Al]

Re: Wierdness after AVG 8.0 up grade

 

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:

> AVG Free Support Forum

> http://freeforum.avg.com/

>

> [it's prolly LinkScanner that's causing the slowdown.]

 

I found linkscanner slowing my IE7 down and just disabled it.

I guess its good for my grandmother that doesn't know site A from site

B, but I'm going out on a limb and say I know better :-)

[Guest Anthony Diodati]

Re: Wierdness after AVG 8.0 up grade

 

 

"Big Al" <BigAl@nowhere.com> wrote in message

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>> [it's prolly LinkScanner that's causing the slowdown.]

<<SNIP>>

Yes it was................

You guys are too much,

Thanks To all.

Tony

[Guest Anthony Diodati]

Re: Wierdness after AVG 8.0 up grade

 

> "Big Al" <BigAl@nowhere.com> wrote in message

> news:bWm%j.14864$9H6.14534@trnddc04...

>>> [it's prolly LinkScanner that's causing the slowdown.]

> <<SNIP>>

 

"Anthony Diodati" <mrbreezeet1NO SPAM@verizon.net> wrote in message

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>

> Yes it was................

> You guys are too much,

> Thanks To all. Tony

 

For sure it was, cause I re enabled link scanner and tried google adv.

search again, and got the same problem.

Funny though, it was only (SFAIK) on the google adv. search, and not on a

yahoo search or windows live,MSN search.

Thanks again.

Tony

[Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Re: Wierdness after AVG 8.0 up grade

 

Anthony Diodati wrote:

>>>> [it's prolly LinkScanner that's causing the slowdown.]

>> <<SNIP>>

>

>> Yes it was................

>> You guys are too much,

>> Thanks To all. Tony

>

> For sure it was, cause I re enabled link scanner and tried google adv.

> search again, and got the same problem.

> Funny though, it was only (SFAIK) on the google adv. search, and not on a

> yahoo search or windows live,MSN search.

 

Did you ever have a McAfee application installed?

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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)

MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002

AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net

DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

[Guest Anthony Diodati]

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"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message

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>

> Did you ever have a McAfee application installed?

 

No, Not on this machine/system.

Tony

[Guest Rene Brehmer]

Re: Wierdness after AVG 8.0 up grade

 

On Wed, 28 May 2008 23:54:43 GMT, Anthony Diodati wrote:

> Not sure if it's related,but after AVG 8.0 up grade, google advanced search

> seems to be acting strange.

> Maybe I would be better at an IE group, sorry if this is not the correct

> group to post this.

> Takes a long time to search, and any "find" I go to I get a lot of slow

> downs, and Internet explorer cannot display the web page, also then seems to

> affect other pages I have open.

> If I close all my IE windows, and open a new one, all seems fine again.

> Don't know if it's related to AVG or not.

> Or could google advanced search have an issue.

> Am running IE 7. No problems with it till now.

 

It's a problem with AVG 8's site checker. It eats up all your bandwidth and

takes forever, so your browsers ends up timing out and failing.

 

Disabling the site checker in the AVG control panel helps, but then AVG

keeps giving you error messages that something is disabled, and when you

reboot it, the site checker is turned back on.

 

I gave up on AVG and switched to Avast instead. It's a little slower when

accessing harddrives, uses 17K more memory, but overall system performance

is higher, and you can actually chose not to install the site checker. If

you run Firefox, you don't need it anyway.

 

 

--

Rene Brehmer

IT Technician

 

North Hill Inn

http://www.northhillinn.com

[Guest Rene Brehmer]

Re: Wierdness after AVG 8.0 up grade

 

On Thu, 29 May 2008 10:22:48 -0400, PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:

>> For sure it was, cause I re enabled link scanner and tried google adv.

>> search again, and got the same problem.

>> Funny though, it was only (SFAIK) on the google adv. search, and not on a

>> yahoo search or windows live,MSN search.

>

> Did you ever have a McAfee application installed?

 

Good thought... their site checker won't go away even when you uninstall

it. Symantec makes the only software where I have to reformat the computer

to uninstall them...

--

Rene Brehmer

IT Technician

 

North Hill Inn

http://www.northhillinn.com

[Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Re: Wierdness after AVG 8.0 up grade

 

Rene Brehmer wrote:

>> Did you ever have a McAfee application installed?

>

> Good thought... their site checker won't go away even when you uninstall

> it. Symantec makes the only software where I have to reformat the computer

> to uninstall them...

 

The McAfee removal tool will make quick work of any McAfee leftovers

(including Site Advisor, even the standalone version) after uninstalling a

McAfee application:

 

McAfee Consumer Products Removal Tool

http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?id=107083&lc=4105&partner=McAfee&type=TS&ia=1

[Discussion: http://www.pchell.com/virus/uninstallmcafee.shtml]

 

After uninstalling a Norton application (and LiveUpdate) via Add/Remove

Programs, use this removal tool to get rid of the leftovers:

 

Norton Removal Tool

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039

[Discussion: http://windowssecrets.com/comp/080207#story1]

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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)

MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002

AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net

DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

[Guest Anthony Diodati]

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"Rene Brehmer" <rene@metalbunny.net> wrote in message

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>> , and when you

> reboot it, the site checker is turned back on.

 

IT is? Damm, Yea, don't think I rebooted yet after turning the site checker.

Tony

>

> --

> Rene Brehmer

> IT Technician

>

> North Hill Inn

> http://www.northhillinn.com

[Guest Anthony Diodati]

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"Anthony Diodati" <mrbreezeet1NO SPAM@verizon.net> wrote in message

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>

> "Rene Brehmer" <rene@metalbunny.net> wrote in message

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>>> , and when you

>> reboot it, the site checker is turned back on.

>

> IT is? Damm, Yea, don't think I rebooted yet after turning the site

> checker.

> Tony

 

I gave uninstalled AVG and switched to Avast Too, We will see how it goes.

So far working fine.

I could not find antwhere though to set up a scan like 1 time a day, at

XX:XX time, or 1 time a week.

Do I need that, or just run it about 1X a week?

Thanks, Tony

[Guest Ken Blake, MVP]

Re: Wierdness after AVG 8.0 up grade

 

On Sat, 31 May 2008 12:32:42 GMT, "Anthony Diodati" <mrbreezeet1NO

SPAM@verizon.net> wrote:

>

> "Anthony Diodati" <mrbreezeet1NO SPAM@verizon.net> wrote in message

> news:wx%%j.58$qP.35@trnddc03...

> >

> > "Rene Brehmer" <rene@metalbunny.net> wrote in message

> > news:qrv6zd74jssy.12oepo468cuvw.dlg@40tude.net...

> >>> , and when you

> >> reboot it, the site checker is turned back on.

> >

> > IT is? Damm, Yea, don't think I rebooted yet after turning the site

> > checker.

> > Tony

>

> I gave uninstalled AVG and switched to Avast Too, We will see how it goes.

> So far working fine.

> I could not find antwhere though to set up a scan like 1 time a day, at

> XX:XX time, or 1 time a week.

> Do I need that, or just run it about 1X a week?

 

 

One of the best features of Avast is that you can set it to run a scan

every time the screen saver comes on. That means that whenever the

computer isn't otherwise being used, it scans.

 

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[Guest Anthony Diodati]

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"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message

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> On Sat, 31 May 2008 12:32:42 GMT, "Anthony Diodati" <mrbreezeet1NO

> SPAM@verizon.net> wrote:

>

>>

>> "Anthony Diodati" <mrbreezeet1NO SPAM@verizon.net> wrote in message

>> news:wx%%j.58$qP.35@trnddc03...

>> >

>> > "Rene Brehmer" <rene@metalbunny.net> wrote in message

>> > news:qrv6zd74jssy.12oepo468cuvw.dlg@40tude.net...

>> >>> , and when you

>> >> reboot it, the site checker is turned back on.

>> >

>> > IT is? Damm, Yea, don't think I rebooted yet after turning the site

>> > checker.

>> > Tony

>>

>> I gave uninstalled AVG and switched to Avast Too, We will see how it

>> goes.

>> So far working fine.

>> I could not find antwhere though to set up a scan like 1 time a day, at

>> XX:XX time, or 1 time a week.

>> Do I need that, or just run it about 1X a week?

>

>

> One of the best features of Avast is that you can set it to run a scan

> every time the screen saver comes on. That means that whenever the

> computer isn't otherwise being used, it scans.

>

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> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

> Please Reply to the Newsgroup

 

Is that that VRDB? I have it set to "when computer is Idle", as I am not

running a screen saver.

 

Tony