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AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow?

takes longer but might be because of soy ware check

mine takes 30 mins

reply to Dagda1175
I'm sorry to say this but the older AVG was so much better. No it just makes it feel more like Vista. The interface is nice and polished, almost like the newer Spyware Blaster but the product is so damn slow now. I used to hate Avast but now even that is probably faster than the new AVG. I'm also not a big fan of the new Link Scanner they added, seemed to cause so many problems on my system, and that was on a clean and updated install mind you. Come on Grisoft, get your act together!

reply to Dagda1175
Yes, I have heard a similar story from a reliable source about thirty minutes ago. The affected computer crawled after installation of AVG 8.0. The user went back to Avira and everything now works well.

reply to Dagda1175
My firewall has stopped responding due to AVG's memory usage and the whole system slowed down then crashed!

reply to Dagda1175
S L O W ! ! !

Just a slug - installed it ( needed to edit ewido out of the registry ), then found that things randomly crashed, and web browsing or going to my usual sites slowed to a crawl or hung.

Uninstalled, went back to build 7.5.524.

This APP is not ready for prime time - hope they fix it.

reply to Dagda1175
As always, thanks to BBR posters for alerting everyone to potential problems. I DL'd AVG 8.0 to my test rig this morning but have not yet installed it. Now I think that I shall bide my time.
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Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.

reply to Dagda1175
Weird. I haven't really noticed any difference in performance on my rig and it's not a box one would call "up-to-date":

1.3ghz Athlon
512mb PC133 (yeah... you're reading it right)
VIA KT133A chipset

I installed it this morning and everything is just as it was last night.

reply to Dagda1175
Hmmmm. It only takes 18 minutes to do a full scan of entire pc - 70,000+ files - don't see anything slow about that.
But when I had 7.5, it took 47 minutes to scan the exact same files.
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Lonnie

Did a scan...85,795 objects - 24 minutes and 41 seconds. Still, that isn't bad at all.

Yeah, the SCAN was quick enough ( along with the scary reg hacks " ActiveX Compatability " from SB S&D and SWB kill bits ), but it slagged the speed of my laptop on all sites - Weather.com even crapped out, fer C.S.!.

I like a quick and thorough on-demand SCAN, but the resident AV sluggardlyness ( I know, but it sounds good ) is a dealbreaker.

1.7 GHz Celeron
XP SP2
2 GB RAM

I have a faster desktop, but it too shall wait and see.

And having to delete Reg entries for Ewido / AVGAS to get 8.0 to load is piss poor - it just ain't ready - Sorry.

reply to Dagda1175
I installed it on a couple of older PC's and one laptop on my network and do not see any significant hit on performance. Scanning probably takes a little longer but I do not set automatic scans; just did one after installation.

But here's the difference.

I did a "Custom Install" and unchecked all the boxes except the real-time scanner. No web checker, no email scanner, no surf-safe, etc.

None of those features make you any safer because the real-time scanner will flag anything on access. Don't install them and you should avoid associated problems.
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If America has an official philosophy, it surely includes the belief in individualism, competition, private property, democracy, freedom, and a deep faith in education. This social philosophy is called "liberalism." GKM (1936)

reply to Dagda1175
my all ready Scan 217,000 in 2 min's

reply to jmorlan
I did the same - still going to wait. Perhaps a conflict with BoClean or ProcessGuard ??

reply to jmorlan
I tried custom install and unfortunately the link scanner still installs, even tried Avg's post about not installing it. Apparently this cannot be done with the free version. Please tell me I am wrong!

Typed this into the run box after fresh d/l saved to desktop. What did I do wrong?c:avg_free_stf_en_8_100a1295.exe/REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSurf /REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSearch.

It's in matunga's link to grisoft's site...

Anyways...

reply to Dagda1175
I haven't had a problems upgrading to 8.0.

reply to Dagda1175
I have upgraded 2 XP Pro machines so far with AVG 8 Free and have seen no problems what so ever.

Zach

reply to traveler55