bassline
@onvol.net
| reply to Dagda1175
Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow?
problems here too. i hve 2 pcs. i have installed avg 8 on my old(really old) pc and went dead slow. all went to normal once i uninstall it. any suggestions what is as good as my old fav avg 7.5 and not so heavy on pc. i will not install avg 8 on my new pc YET
AMD's Athlon 64 X2 6000+ processor (two cores at 3GHz)
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Tyreman
join:2002-10-08 | install it the command line way? |
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Jan Janowski
join:2000-06-18
Skokie, IL
 ·AT&T Midwest
| reply to Dagda1175
Wife just got a Dell Laptop from Dell/QVC, with Vista Home Premium. Our first Vista, and I'm not too impressed with Vista, but that is another story.
Inspiron 1720. Only 1.8G CPUs. 4G (3.5G) Ram
Came with Trend, which didn't work corectly after first Windows Update, so I un-installed it and loaded AVG V8.
So far, I'm NOT seeing it as a resource hog, and is working fine. Have 20 more days free, and if I still like it then, have no problems with purchasing it...
Not seeing it be slow here.... maybe it's the ram?
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traveler55
join:2005-04-09
Mount Vernon, WA
·Verizon Online DSL
| reply to Dagda1175
I disabled the linkscanner, which I don't need! The complete C scan (410000 files) only took 56 minutes on my 8 year old computer with xp pro sp3 and only 512 megs of mem. It did take awhile to install compared to the wifes Gateway,3.0 with 512 megs,and that one has over 700000 files and only took 45 minutes! Overall I think it is great! |
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Finger2208
join:2001-04-07
Lindale, TX
| I installed AVG 8.0 Pro when it first was released. At first I liked it, but then noticed the toll it took on surfing. So I switched back to 7.5.
After seeing the release of the AVG 8.0 Free I decided to try it again, as I purchased another 2 year license a few months ago. Once I disabled Link Scanner in IE 7 add ons I've been very happy with AVG 8.0. My surf speeds are fine, as are the scan times, etc. |
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Mactron
el camino Real
Premium
join:2001-12-16
CM94sv
| reply to Dagda1175
So slow it brought by old laptop to it's knees. 
Uninstalled it and went with Avast. 
Haven't installed 8.0 on the other machines, but after this experience, AVG maybe history on all of them.
Sad, I really liked AVG. 
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kw
Premium
join:2004-06-12 | reply to Dagda1175
It brought my old laptop to it's knees...but you'll have that when the laptop is a 500mhz PIII with 128MB of RAM.
Installed it successfully on 3 boxes. Works OK here. |
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lmilone
join:2001-07-21
Northfield, NJ | reply to Dagda1175
I saw a post by rugmankc stating that he disabled linkscanner using firefox addons. I couldn't find it in addons. Can anyone give me path to find it? Thanks |
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avgtimer88
@rogers.com | The addon for the link scanner is called AVG Safe Search. Disabling it will massively speed up your browsing experience when viewing pages with lots of links... |
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Finger2208
join:2001-04-07
Lindale, TX
| said by avgtimer88 :
The addon for the link scanner is called AVG Safe Search. Disabling it will massively speed up your browsing experience when viewing pages with lots of links...
That's what I did....worked well for me! |
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Mikeytron
@omcastbusiness.net
| reply to Mikeytron
Besides the Link Scanner issues I have noticed an improvment if you go to Tools, then Advanced Settings, then Resident Shield and UNCHECK "Scan Potentially Unwanted Programs and Spyware Threats". Only Boot sector and Hueristics and Resident Should should be checked. I went from 4.5 hours to 3.12 hours in scan time ON THE EXACT SAME p.c. and also resource losses were not as bad. It made a BIG DIFFERENCE! The link scanner issue and spyware detection going on along with the anti-virus check is the killer. If I ran Spybot while the old AVG 7.5 was running it was a killer as well, and that's why I wouldn't do it. One size fits all doesn't work here. I have seen some interesting posts how other users circumvent the AVG but that is far too much to do to make a program run O.K. When you have to do that it means the software has missed its mark. Again we don't need spyware checks in AVG. |
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rugmankc
join:2007-11-26
Fairborn, OH
| reply to lmilone
Go to the FF Toolbar and click on Tools dropdown menu.
Click on addons.
Highlight AVG Safe Search and click on disable.
You may ned to restart FF to take effect.
This way you get no notices that linkscanner needs attention.
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rugmankc
join:2007-11-26
Fairborn, OH | reply to Mikeytron
Excuse the dumb question.
But, won't unchecking that lower the effectiveness of your scan?
Ken |
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Katman
@btopenworld.com
| reply to reef69
said by reef69 :
It looks nice but.....
Total Object Scanned: 527,702
Time Needed: 3 hour(s) 42 min(s)
AVG 7.5 took 1 hour
I realize AVG 8 scans for spyware as well (hence the longer scan time).Should be an option for scanning for viruses and another option just for spyware.
I have a mini ITX machine with Epia 5000 Motherboard that I use as a file server. Not a powerful machine but has served me well ans is extremely low power consumption.
Under 7.5 a full system scan used to take bout 4 hours so from 3am to about 7am the machine was very slow.
Since "upgrading" to version 8, the full system scan now takes 17 hours !!! This means the machine is now totally unusable and I will be looking for alternative AV software |
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IIgs
Premium
join:2002-10-05
Montreal, QC
| reply to Dagda1175
Been using AVG 7.5 the past year after and always been happy with it (I switched from Norton) however I got the notice it would expire at the end of May. Thought nothing of it and upgraded to 8.0...
Not only did it slow my system down in every sense, it caused instabilities! First browsing in general was painfully slow, then on top of that Firefox would frequency freeze up for several seconds (I'd see "Not responding" in the Task Manager). As a matter of fact, my whole system was slowing to a crawl even outside of browsing, and when I'd investigate why, I'd see AVG was eating up a fair bit of CPU usage at random.
The final straw was cold booting into Windows XP, about 50% of the time it would hang trying to load up AVG at start up, crash with a blue screen and self reboot. Come to think of it, I remember when I installed two weeks back it hanged several times trying to load up the first time (just before its icon would appear in the system tray) forcing me to hard reset the computer a couple of times. I felt this was a bad sign.
At any rate I uninstall it and returned back to 7.5.523 (after much searching since Grisoft took it off their site from what I could see). First thing I noticed since is how much faster my computer is, and back to being stable! I'm won't even consider touching 8.x until they straighten it out. |
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ethics
join:2008-05-09
Brooklyn, NY | Folks, is the reason behind AVG 8.0 performance have anything to do with the position that it's doing a lot more than AVG 7.5? I noticed for me it's checking a LOT more than the previous version did--things like Web Links, etc... |
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ironwalker
World Renowned
Premium,MVM
join:2001-08-31
Keansburg, NJ
clubs:
 ·Optimum Online
| I turned web link checking off as well as some other stuff I dont need or other apps do.
What I dont like is the fact that resident shield now uses 100% or higher than 50% when surfing or downloading or even going through various folders in explorer and now, compared to avg before version 8 is not transparent and slows things down for me.I dont want resident shield to show in anyway that it is doing its job, I do not want to feel it in my day to day work on the pc. I have shut it down when it really lags downloads or surfing. It really shows in compressed folders like .zip .rar .7zp etc.
AVG is slow even with turning the stuff off that wasn't in avg prior to version 8.
The engine is totally different the prior versions as well, and until its is in real world use, I doubt it wont be tweaked to perfection for sometime ahead.
I do like overall better as far as options and funtionality as well as customiseing but feel some needed features have been left out.I will head to avg community to suggest such features.
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ironwalker
World Renowned
Premium,MVM
join:2001-08-31
Keansburg, NJ
clubs:
·Optimum Online
| reply to IIgs
said by IIgs  :Been using AVG 7.5 the past year after and always been happy with it (I switched from Norton) however I got the notice it would expire at the end of May. Thought nothing of it and upgraded to 8.0... Not only did it slow my system down in every sense, it caused instabilities! First browsing in general was painfully slow, then on top of that Firefox would frequency freeze up for several seconds (I'd see "Not responding" in the Task Manager). As a matter of fact, my whole system was slowing to a crawl even outside of browsing, and when I'd investigate why, I'd see AVG was eating up a fair bit of CPU usage at random. The final straw was cold booting into Windows XP, about 50% of the time it would hang trying to load up AVG at start up, crash with a blue screen and self reboot. Come to think of it, I remember when I installed two weeks back it hanged several times trying to load up the first time (just before its icon would appear in the system tray) forcing me to hard reset the computer a couple of times. I felt this was a bad sign. At any rate I uninstall it and returned back to 7.5.523 (after much searching since Grisoft took it off their site from what I could see). First thing I noticed since is how much faster my computer is, and back to being stable! I'm won't even consider touching 8.x until they straighten it out. Its a shame they wont support any older versions soon. You will have to switch AV or use version 8 before it gets perfected. Using older version without daily updated signature files is useless. |
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ironwalker
World Renowned
Premium,MVM
join:2001-08-31
Keansburg, NJ
clubs:
·Optimum Online
| reply to Dagda1175
Also just noticed avgrsx.exe (resident shield) uses over 50,912K of memory and avgwdsvc.exe is useing 15,000K of memory....thats with surfshield ...linkscanner off!
I am heading of to AVG site faq's and forums for some info/reading/and suggestions. |
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Mikeytron
@aol.com
| reply to rugmankc
Not a dumb question. The answer is yes and no. When you scan your P.C. the software just doesn't scan every file unless you tell it to do so. Virus software uses intelligence by the program and developer to scan the most effective way to find "known" viruses as identified by the program's database. By having the most updated virus database will take out many viruses in the "resident" portion of the program. It gets complicated on the software side but viruses are all about money and exploitation these days. We pay money to software companies to ensure that we are up to date with our virus definitions. Believe it or not no matter what program you pick and as long as you scan regularly and keep the Anti-virus program updated you are good to go. Its when you slack off that the problems occur. Also empty you Internet Explore cache and temp files regularly because that is where the general malware likes to reside. |
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