Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? in Security

Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? in Security http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20397532 en Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:13:46 EDT Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:13:46 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21022239 anon : If you are using an AMD processor and are having slowdowns under Windows XP or Vista with AVG installed, try installing the AMD Dual Core Optimizer. It made a noticeable difference on my PC (but AVG remains a bit slow still). Most sluggishness is gone now. However, this only made a difference to the real-time performance, that is, on-demand scans were not really improved.

You can get the Dual Core Optimizer here:

»www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/Tec···,00.html]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21022239 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:13:28 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21011677 anon : I'm getting sick of avgrsx taking up most of my cpu time at boot up, I've been using AVG for a LONG time, but this has got me thinking about uninstalling it :o]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21011677 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:37:13 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20977927 tokamak : I can confirm that AVG is really slow. I use v8.0.138 and it needs many seconds before any window opens.
It's a pity because I like its interface, but my PC is almost freezed since I installed it (I have an Athlon 1400Mhz).
I think I'll try Avira, I hope they'll fix AVG speed problem soon.
:( :( :(]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20977927 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:54:41 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20883012 kmcheng : actually AVG 8 may not be that bad if you know what to disable.
1. check off the link scanner in the installation process
2. I don't know if the "scan potentially unwanted programs and spyware threats" feature will slow down the system a lot, you can try to check off this function and see if you want to.

I just uninstalled 7.5 and installed 8 and did the two things above. Now the 8 is not that bad. It may use slightly more resource than 7.5, I don't know, but it is more acceptable now.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20883012 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:51:32 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20826488 anon : I installed avg 8 on my lap top and it didn't slow it down it killed it completely. 7+ minutes to desk top and as for shutting down (windows is shutting down page) I gave up after 2 hours and hit the off button.
Took avg 8 off, put avira on and now it's like diarrhoea with daps on.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20826488 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:47:27 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20824465 iamth3b35t : agree. AVG 8 took close to 2 hr to finish 40+ GB files. It did great job btw, better than most of the scanners. i hope it will become faster with updates.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20824465 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:04:10 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20820883 anon : I'm really unhappy about AVG 8.0.
Things are REALLY slow. It's almost impossible to use my PC.
Start menu appears after 5-10 seconds. Multiple windows almost freeze the system.
I was very happy about AVG7, now I think Ill try Avira (crossing my fingers).]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20820883 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:21:12 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20796091 anon : Try this.....

*Comodo Firewall Pro*

»www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/···all.html

You can't get any better for *FREE*

If you are on DSL or Cable use a Router as a hardware firewall & turn on the Vista built in firewall.

If your intention is to block outgoing traffic than the above is a great solution, otherwise you do not need it.

AVG is still working great for me.. 8.138a1332

»free.avg.com/ww.download?prd=afe#tba2

I guess they listened to what I had to say.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20796091 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:58:43 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20794876 Le Boule : Now AVG is saying support for 7.5 Free version ends August 31st...

»freeforum.avg.com/read.php?1,136···age=,sv=

:p]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20794876 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:59:22 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20793906 anon : AVG 8 internet security works ok for the most part but the firewall is causing my online games to hiccup at regular intervals. It also slows down the speed tests here on dslreports. The only solution I have found is to disable the firewall then my online games run fine. anyone else had this problem with avg firewall? Or can you recommend a decent vista 64 bit firewall?

avg tech support has been no help.

thx]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20793906 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:31:33 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20792784 quasihedron : I turned off the link scanner feature of AVG Free 8, and it helped IE to speed up, probably since it does not have to also go get info on the many links to websites a page refers to, and where it searches for the issues. The scan time did not improve though.

Thanks for your recommendations. I will give them a try.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20792784 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:44:20 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20788691 FiOS Dan :

said by jabarnut

:

To be honest with you (and only my personal opinion of course), I think your best option is to dump AVG 8 all together, and go with either Avast or Avira. (If you're still interested in a free app).

FWIW I am testing the free versions of these AVs out at the moment and they are both performing well. Avast has more bells and whistles but in Avira you can schedule regular scans. IMO either one would be a good choice to replace AVG.
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20788691 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:16:55 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20788021 jabarnut : There were several other threads concerning AVG 8 (in addition to this one).

To be honest with you (and only my personal opinion of course), I think your best option is to dump AVG 8 all together, and go with either Avast or Avira. (If you're still interested in a free app).
Sorry, but for me at least, that's my best and only suggestion.

I was a faithful AVG user for many years.
I also tried every tweak in the book with AVG 8 (installing without the 'Link Scanner', etc), and it was still a disaster as far as I'm concerned.
And unless they've drastically changed something since I got rid of it, removing unwanted "features" is generally not much of an option...with a couple of exceptions.

I'm using Avira AntiVir now, and am pretty happy with it.

If you look around a little...(do a search here in the forums for "AVG 8"), I think you'll find that many people have abandoned AVG 8, and moved on to something else.

Good luck. :)
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I had a life once.....now I have a Computer and a Modem.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20788021 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:52:10 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20787605 anon : I recently added a new 4 port USB-2 card, a USB WD MyBook hard drive, and a USB LG DVD-writer with Lightscribe. I then did a full system backup, along with some duplicate music files and personal documents. I also have several MS system state backups. I jumped from about 800K objects to 1139K objects. The scan time changed from 3 hours to 8 hours using the AVG-Free 8; I start it a 5am. It does not always like the huge backup files at all, and hangs for hours there. I suppose it is still scanning them.

I also did an XP SP 3 upgrade since then (forced on me by Microsoft and the new hardware guys, I might add.) I have a 9-year-old P3-800mhz, 768MB ram, with a dual display and 1.5M DSL internet link. It was working fine until the AVG-Free 8 stuff for sure. During the day, when the scan is not running, avgrsx.exe pumps the cpu to 100% usage and brings the screens to a halt for minutes at a time. It also seems to not like the current Flash player in IE7. AVG-Free 8 uses about 54,000K all the time.

Any suggestions? Do I need to do an uninstall and then a reinstall eliminating some of the new (and nasty) AVG-Free 8 features?

Thanx.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20787605 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:39:27 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20739056 Finger2208 :

said by mike232 :

:(
Turned off link scanner (gimmicky!) and resident (evil) shield so far.. The resident shield meant opening large files like movies took up to a minute while avg inspected them. Didn't used to happen with 7.5.

Oh and the annoying 'MS-windows-style-update-manager-icon' with a big red exclamation mark if you disable anything - hi fallootin' nonsense!!!

Bad work gri-soft. I used to be so full of praise for AVG. Keep it real!!!!

If you're using the latest install, try looking in the Advanced Settings. There you'll find Ignore Faulty Conditions where you can make the red exclamation mark go away for each component you decide to disable :huh:]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20739056 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:37:08 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20735824 anon : :(
Turned off link scanner (gimmicky!) and resident (evil) shield so far.. The resident shield meant opening large files like movies took up to a minute while avg inspected them. Didn't used to happen with 7.5.

Oh and the annoying 'MS-windows-style-update-manager-icon' with a big red exclamation mark if you disable anything - hi fallootin' nonsense!!!

Bad work gri-soft. I used to be so full of praise for AVG. Keep it real!!!!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20735824 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:47:17 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20695161 anon : Does the new version work with FAT32 systems? (W2K SP4 on FAT 32).

There is no clear indication about this. Updates and scanning were not working on FAT 32 systems in the first version.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20695161 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:33:58 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20694795 mhat1262 : I am having the same issue. With an external HD, it is taking about 11 hrs to scan both HD's. That is insane. I start at 1:00 am and it ends around 1:00 pm. What can be done about this? Any ideas?
Thanks
Mike :(]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20694795 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:47:36 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20690442 anon : New Version of AVG Free released today..

8.101a.1327...

»free.grisoft.com/ww.download?prd=afe#tba2]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20690442 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:55:14 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20677294 FiOS Dan :

said by jmorlan

:

...or switch to a different free product such as Avira or Avast.

Have Avira and Avast running on my two PCs with no regrets so far. :)
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20677294 Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:15:30 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20677230 jmorlan :

said by nydiariv

:

This is straight from the AVG free FAQs:
1350:Support of AVG version 7.5AVG 7.5 will be supported until December 31, 2008.

I think that's from the FAQ for the paid version of AVG. However, you are correct that the free version of 7.5 will be supported with definition updates until the end of the year.

»freeforum.avg.com/read.php?1,123···age=,sv=

For now, I would stay with AVG 7.5 as long as possible, or switch to a different free product such as Avira or Avast.
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"Old age is always 15 years older than I am." (Francis Bacon)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20677230 Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:52:12 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20677031 nydiariv :

said by mrgeek

:

This probably has been brought up before, but I believe the 12/31/2008 end of support date, is for AVG anti-spyware, not the AV.

This is straight from the AVG free FAQs:
1350:Support of AVG version 7.5AVG 7.5 will be supported until December 31, 2008. The support includes:

releases of new Virus Base updates, ensuring identical signature-based detection with AVG 8.0
releases of new program updates, fixing known or newly found problems in the program
technical and sales support for AVG 7.5
Please note that if you wish to keep using AVG 7.5 after release of AVG 8.0, you need to use the correct License Number for this version. This number was provided to you upon purchase or registration of AVG and starts with '70' or '75'. In case you purchased or renewed AVG 7.5 license after the release of AVG 8.0 and you received License Number for AVG 8.0, you may need to contact our sales support to receive a License Number for AVG 7.5.

The latest installation files of AVG 7.5 are available at our website.

Was this FAQ helpful to you? |

»www.grisoft.com/ww.faq.num-1350#faq_1350

As it says, they will continue support for AVG free 7.5 until 12/31/2008. I guess they just haven't done anything to update or remove the nag screen.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20677031 Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:57:34 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20669432 anon : Tried to upgrade AVG 8.0 on P4, 512MB DDR1, on a WinXP SP2. Works fine, if run alone. When office users open their applications like Word, Firefox or IE7, etc. It really slows down the system.

Upgrade additional 512MB to make the system RAM 1GB. All 20 P4 that runs AVG8.0 runs smoothly now.

I had 40 PC left with AVG7.5 with same specs, and I'm not upgrading to v8.0.

Just add additional memory for your P4, or go for a PC with a higher spec. I've been an AVG user for quite sometime now, but I know this is coming.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20669432 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:04:41 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20637564 BinaryXtreme : I run mine on auto at about 3 am so I have no idea how long it takes. I'll have to check my log but I don't care as it's time I'm not on.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20637564 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:35:42 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20637373 Thug21 : Nope, not at all. This laptop is from early 2003 and has Win XP home. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20637373 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:59:20 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20634690 thewayitis : thug21, Are you saying you have W98 system? ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20634690 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:54:31 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20634532 Thug21 : Avira works great on my P4 with 512 of RAM. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20634532 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:24:13 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20633316 j2 : However i configure AVG8 it slows down my p4 and i guess these new applications just arent good for p4's anymore?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20633316 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:23:48 EDT Re: Uninstall AVG 8 completely! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20633097 Slammajamma : Anyone getting the "invalid binary file update" error message when AVG tried to update? This has been going on for over a week now and i don't have a clue how to fix it. Anyone got any ideas?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20633097 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:44:27 EDT Uninstall AVG 8 completely! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20632863 anon : Try this, reinstall AVG 8, restart, you'll be asked whether to install AVG toolbar, select YES, then you follow dialogs box until it's finished. Use Add/Remove programs, choose remove, follow every instruction, then choose remove AVG 8. This should do it, remove AVG 8 completely! Good luck!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20632863 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:10:13 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20625517 anon : Need to put a space after .exe /]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20625517 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:01:03 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20617818 Tyreman : I had "custom" installed 8 as per others

Thought it was not bad..but few days ago some issues on connections was getting some hiccups.

Completely got 8 off and run Avast free.
WOW..what a treat.
Works for me.

I did try :)

You just shouldn't have to "configure" and play with an app like that. :(

If they were wanting to remove their free users and loosen up server use....they sure have succeeded. :D]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20617818 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:19:27 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20617721 FiOS Dan : Laptop = PC Tools AntiVirus
PC#1 = Avira
PC#2 = Avast

All formerly AVG 7.5 and all now purring along without the slightest hiccup or slowdown. Bye bye AVG...who needs this sort of hassle?
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Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.
]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20617721 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:03:16 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20616665 anon : I just got through installing 8.0 on 3 computers. 1 Vista desktop, 1 XPsp2 Laptop and 1 XPsp1 desktop.

Not only did it TURN ON Windows Firewall on all 3 updated systems (it was previously disabled), but my network is in shambles. The two XP machines can't "see" each other or any other systems on the network, only one can can see the printer connected to one of my Visa desktops, and my 2 Vista machines can't see each other either. Believe me, I'd LOVE to blame this on something else, but the only thing I've done today was update 3 of my 6 machines to AVG 8.0, and I guess I WON'T be doing the same to the last 3 anytime soon.

Vista networking is fickle to begin with so maybe it can shoulder some of the blame here, but there is definitely something wrong with this update. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20616665 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:58:54 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20612046 mrgeek : This probably has been brought up before, but I believe the 12/31/2008 end of support date, is for AVG anti-spyware, not the AV.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20612046 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:25:13 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20611991 anon : Thanks for the tip, I will check it out. I would tend to agree with you about memberships, I belong to other forums,& it is a much better way to go, (Just did not have the time),I just wanted to quickly share my experiences with others. You can also tell by the Posts who is serious etc, also if someone else used Cavt..the IP would be different than mine as well.

I just want to give everyone here an update.. I have tested out the new version of AVG 8 & sure enough there is now an option to not install AVG active search shield.Bravo AVG.I recently bought Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1,& installed it on a second hard drive,I am running AVG 8 on it as well with NO Problems. My Vista experience Index is 5.3 Most is 5.9,5.6 etc. & I have Aero Glass on.

I would like to share a Feedback letter I sent to AVG...

I run Xp Pro Sp3,

I am an advanced, experienced computer user, & I would just like to give you some feed back on AVG 8 anti virus.I am using your latest version 8.100a1323 Free.
First of all could you please change the about AVG info within the program to display the actual full version # it never lists the a1323 build #.just 8.100.the other annoying thing is when you turn off Auto scan,Auto update,the tray Icon is in an error state,there is no need for this as the person knows he has turned it off.AFG 8 also does not remember its window position as 7.5 did.
I have used AVG 7.5 for a long time & think it is a great program,with version 8 could you please also give us the option to not install the spy ware part of it, I just want a plain vanilla Anti virus.
People on some Forums have mentioned how resource intensive your new program is as compared to 7.5. I can not complain because it is a free program,but if you give people total customizable options more people may want to buy your product. If you can please trim it down. I run Windows Defender & Spybot S&D,I use a Router & Software Firewall. I like a lot of people do not need more spy ware protection.
In closing I would just like to thank you very much for providing such a great FREE service over the years.I will continue to use your Free version 8 & wait for possible improvements to the program.
Your feedback would be greatly appreciated thank you.

I could not find a feedback area,so could you please pass this on to the actual people who work on the program. Thanks.

Hopefully they will send a reply, or just further improve the program.

My system:Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4Ghz,2gigs Corsair ram 667,ATI Sapphire HD 2600XT 512mb DDR3 Direct X10 compatible.Western Digital Sata Hard Drives 16mb Cache. Asus Workstation Motherboard.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20611991 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:02:44 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20611906 anon : No you are not missing anything,when I posted, that was the latest version out,I recently updated to version 8.100a1323. myself... Here is the direct link for AVG 8...

»free.grisoft.com/ww.download?prd=afe#tba2]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20611906 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:39:46 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20611535 anon : Disk I/O by AVG 8.0 is horrendous. My desktop takes much longer to complete startup as all the i/o is contending with other startup programs. Once this is complete, things settle down but I'm surprised at how bad this is on a 3.2GHz w/ 2 GB or ram.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20611535 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:45:54 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20607873 Jan Janowski : I've been using AVG Free on a W98 box for years, and AVG V7.5 Pro on 3 systems, 2x XP Home, 1 XP Pro for years...
When my wife got a Dell laptop with Vista Home Premimum, which came with a year free Trend, after the first Windows Update, about an hour after receiving the laptop, Trend stopped loading correctly, and wouldn't update, or Remove properly. I eventually had to manually remove it, which was a pain because it had enough of it running so as to prevent manual removal, and not enough of it running to un-install. Took about 4 hours of deleting/restarting/deleting/restarting, etc. This was a couple weeks before SP1, and I was new to Wireless, too, which made the whole experience more painful... Eventually, I went to AVG and installed V8 Demo full package based upon my Prior excellent history with AVG.

Install was flawless, and I didn't notice any slowdown, and I continued to configure the laptop for the system here...

About that time I ran into a wierd printer problem with my HP Deskjet 7310 (configured as a Network printer). Laserjet 4+, (also a network printer).
Both configured fine, and printed out test pages.
However, the 7310 would not print out in IEV7. Would work on every program I had in Vista EXCEPT IEV7. LJ4+ Worked fine, so I figured it was an HP issue. You can read on the Microsoft forum on this, showing how far this got... Calls to HP, Dell, Microsoft. A real Circle Jerk!
Eventually, on my own, by accident, I found that AVG was causing the entire issue, only to find that others had posted same results in that forum post.

OVERALL: I will say that I DID NOT Notice a Slowdown with AVG V8.

But since it disabled my printer.... It's HISTORY...

I'll have to take a wait and See approach when it comes to the V7.5 Pro licences that I own.... They (on XP Home & Pro) have been working smoothly, and work fine in XP using 7310 network printer.... For Years.
I've got 2 that expire in 2009, and one that expires in 2010. The W98 system is pretty much offline now, being used for DVR & Router diagnostics and upgrading, and this will probably remain As-Is.

However,on the Wife's Laptop, Vista Home Premium, I CANNOT run AVG V8, as it disables my HP 7310 netork printer (But not the LJ4+ Network printer--Go figure) printing from IEV7 (unless you disable Protected Mode)..... It's running Avast now, and I'll probably get a single license for Avast, and worry about the AVG Pro licenses that expire in 2009.

I'm a bit upset by this, but I'm also willing to take a "Take & See" approach....

Hopefully AVG monitors these threads..... and can react to it!!!
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said by Cavt :

Thank you for confirming my POST...I was going to post a nice picture of the Nag Notification as well but I did not have a screen grabber handy.

Wisdom-soft's Screen hunter free is a nice quick loading still image capture program.

BTW-Sorry I am not a member yet,but none of us are anonymous as they log your IP address, the only thing members give out is there email address & that is private too,except for the people who run this site.

Nice things about membership - you can edit your posts to add that screen shot, send IMs to others if you have questions or information you don't want to post in the topic and track or get notifications when somebody responds to a request or post you made or are interested in. Betraying the contents of IMs in posts is looked on very darkly here, and you rarely if ever see it. As an anon user, anybody can pick up the handle used and post as "cavt". With registered users, your screen name is unique and can't be used by other registered users.

I've found all of these to be useful when giving or seeking assistance.

Also, I've never been spammed as a result of my membership. You can bet this bunch would be raising the proverbial roof if that were to happen :D
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AFAIK, only change was the fixed option to unselect LinkScanner.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20607178 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:49:20 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20606934 falcon04 : Looks like the version now available is 8_100a1323, not 1315 - am I missing something ?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20606934 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:46:31 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20606617 Fickey :

said by EGeezer

:

Confirming a recent post, it looks like Grisoft has changed the date yet again..

AVG forum still says 12/31/2008, wish they'd make up their dang minds, or at least get on the same page! :uhh:
»freeforum.avg.com/read.php?1,123···age=,sv=
»freeforum.avg.com/read.php?1,131···age=,sv=
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I used to fly.... now I crawl. It feels like I'm on dial up again while browsing the web. When I close FireFox, there are still threads running on the machine. I'm using 110 GB of space on my drive and it now took about 6 hours to complete a scan. THIS VERSION IS A RESOURCE HOG! I hope Grisoft gets the message and does something about it.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20604312 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:26:11 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20593711 anon : Thank you for confirming my POST...I was going to post a nice picture of the Nag Notification as well but I did not have a screen grabber handy.

I tried out the new version 8.100a1315 & sure enough they made some changes to the install,(as I said in my earlier posts) you can now uncheck AVG Search Shield.Its running great on my system. It scanned 3 hard drives in 14min.16sec.,I have it set to scan everything not just infectable files.I tried it with infectable files only & that ran around 11min. 54sec.

Not going to waste my time going back to 7.5, it can only get better from here (hopefully).

BTW-Sorry I am not a member yet,but none of us are anonymous as they log your IP address, the only thing members give out is there email address & that is private too,except for the people who run this site.I will make the time to sign up eventually,It's a real downer being ignored,ha,ha, good luck to everyone, hope you find the AV your looking for.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20593711 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:16:43 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20593554 EGeezer :

said by Schrade

said by EGeezer

:

This has been an interesting topic! I've kept 7.5 and noticed today that I received updates for Jun 2 2008. I suspect that the issues with 8.0 have led to an undocumented extension of the end date for AVG free 7.5.

Nope, 12-31-2008 isn't undocumented as being the end date for 7.5 support.

Confirming a recent post, it looks like Grisoft has changed the date yet again..
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20593554 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:41:19 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20592524 fox7 : travler55:
If you downloaded it to your desktop as you say... you will not see it at C:

Download it to the root of the C drive and FOLLOW instructions.

fox7]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20592524 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:27:14 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20589979 anon : I was just at the AVG Free web site,& noticed there is a new version 8 out as of May 22..the annoying thing is, AVG does not list the full version # in their About info tab within the program, really how hard would that be.

New version is 8.100a1315

»free.grisoft.com/ww.download?prd=afe#tba2

I will give it a test see if anything has changed, I was using 8.100a1295 before. FileHippo does not even have this yet.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20589979 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:50:32 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20589732 anon : After seeing your post I installed 7.5 again,So I just want to give everyone an update... This morning I got that AVG Free Notification that updates to 7.5 will not be available after June 25/2008.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20589732 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:08:33 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20584148 anon : Of course it is different for everyone with the multitude of computers out there and I respect your opinion but this is the bottom line. Its all about speed and efficiency. We don't have time to wait or to try to run a crippled system while it scans for what ever the AVG braintrusts have decided they needed now. Well they were wrong. Yes, there have been improvements and one I am hoping for is the need for rebooting after updating. Maybe any of us can reboot our p.c.'s 50 times a day or reformat but when you are running a server that is NOT an option. I run avg free and paid networked editions. The free or paid is NOT configured to run efficiently out of the box. I have done tests on many p.c's and have experimented with different configs and slider settings and even though I assume the idea was noble to try to minimize resource use but it fails. Effectively I do not use avg for anything with spyware, that is what I am able to configure anyway and now I am fairly happy. I cut very little slack because these guys are getting big bucks from me for the networked edition. The product must work with me not against me and my systems. This is not Walmart take it or leave it. Avg tried to bully us by saying May was it, but obviously after all the problems and posts they changed for a little while. Software companies assume "not as good as they want" performance when shipped knowingly keeping developers noses to the grindstone for the next "patch" subsequently the populace has become too forgiving. I guess some would be forgiving but not me. When the network is down because of a software "glitch" and the boss is screaming I don't want to tell him the system crashed because of software because he doesn't care.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20584148 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:18:40 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20583944 EGeezer : Thanks guys, for clearing that up - Based on the previous posts I'd erroneously assumed 1 May as the cutoff and hadn't seen any new notices.

Sounds like I still have 6 months and a chance to see a lighter version. My commercial AVG customer will also remain at 7.5.
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said by Schrade

said by EGeezer

Nope, 12-31-2008 isn't undocumented as being the end date for 7.5 support.

It's been 12/31/08 at least since 5/5/08.

»freeforum.avg.com/read.php?1,123···age=,sv=]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20581510 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:30:44 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20581146 Schrade :

said by EGeezer

Nope, 12-31-2008 isn't undocumented as being the end date for 7.5 support.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20581146 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:16:06 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20578430 EGeezer : This has been an interesting topic! I've kept 7.5 and noticed today that I received updates for Jun 2 2008. I suspect that the issues with 8.0 have led to an undocumented extension of the end date for AVG free 7.5.
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20578430 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:01:13 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20578238 anon : I think someone mentioned they were looking for the older version of AVG 7.5 for download...you can get it here...

7.5.524

»www.filehippo.com/download_avg_a···us/4029/

Hopefully in future releases AVG will give us the choice of what we install, I would like to see just a plain vanilla AntiVirus again in version 8. Maybe feedback to AVG would be more productive than complaining here. I think they will have to do something because the paid version is how they make their bread & butter,so if not many people buy version 8 pro because of all these issues it will send them a clear message. If you think about it you only get major slow downs if you are actually running out of ram & start using the page file. I have my scan speed slider default at Fast.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20578238 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:33:30 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20577922 anon : First of all everyone may have a different experience because you all have different computers, so I can only speak for mine, Its not always fair to blame AVG 8 for all your problems. I recently did a Clean Install of Xp Pro with Sp3 slipstreamed. I run a Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz 2gigs ram. My system runs 0-2 cpu usage,(Have about 31 processes running)The only thing I have running down by my clock is Commodo Firewall Pro 2.4) not even breathing hard, You want real slow downs try NORTON.

I too uninstalled AVG 8 went back to 7.5 but then I got the nag that support would end May 31, so I went back to 8. I have been running it for a while now with no issues.

To simplify things for people who do not like to tweak, why not just Disable Link Scanner within the program after install??? easy to do, then go into your browser...Firefox its an ad-on and disable AVG safe search. In IE go to manage ad-ons & disable it. I also disabled Auto anything. I did not install mine with email scanner , I do not use Outlook,why not let someone else handle all the problems like Gmail etc. You can also disable the tray Icon by going into Msconfig.

I too have tried other free solutions but I keep coming back to old reliable AVG, its been around long enough to be trust worthy. I did find some false positives when scanning but that was because I have Spybot S&D with immunization turned on. You have to stop & think for a minute,the reason it may take a bit longer on some machines is it now scans for a lot more problems than in 7.5.

The bottom line here is we should not be so quick to condemn AVG 8 they are providing an excellent FREE service,& its only the first version out of beta,give them a chance, Look how many program updates there were for previous versions of AVG. I run Windows Defender & Spybot S&D so I did not really what more spyware protection but I can live with it,as I do not have to pay for definition updates every year.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20577922 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:38:15 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20572687 Jan Janowski : FYI: After removing AVG V8, I found I could print in Vista IE7 with protected mode on!

Bug in AVG V8!

»[Vista] Printer that prints test page--but won't print in IE
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1. Download a fresh copy of the installer, saving it to your C: drive (i.e, C:\avg_free_stf_en_8_100a1295.exe) =>

[Mod Note: File removed! »Posting Rules - Security ]

2. Uninstall AVG 8.0 via Add/Remove Programs & reboot.

NB: You're "working without a net" now: Don't to ANYTHING else online (e.g., browsing; reading email; chatting) until you've got AVG 8.0 installed, properly configured, and updated!

3. Carefully follow these instructions to (re)install AVG 8.0: »free.grisoft.com/ww.faq.num-1338

Tip: Do NOT install the toolbar (if offered) or either of the email scanners. Email Scanning provides no additional protection, it's a major source of corruption and problems in Outlook Express/Windows Mail, and even Symantec(NAV) says it's not necessary:

quote:
Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against viruses that are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect scans incoming files as they are saved to your hard drive, including email and email attachments. Email Scanning is just another layer on top of this. To make sure that Auto-Protect is providing the maximum protection, keep Auto-Protect enabled and run LiveUpdate regularly to ensure that you have the most recent virus definitions.

Source: »service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/na···12533106

4. Configure AVG as you wish via the User Interface | Tools | Advanced settings

5. Check for and install any available updates.
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I was tearing my hair out as to what the problem was. Both machines slowed to a crawl and browsing was either akin to dial-up or pages failed to load at all.

After years of solid AVG use, it was the LAST prog I expected to be causing problems. I even made a number of calls to my ISP enquiring about service outages etc - they were as stumped as I was!

I eventually put 2 and 2 together (both machines had been fine pre-update), found this thread and removed AVG 8 from both (also performed a sys restore). Both machines now back to their best.

VERY disappointed with AVG, but relieved to have the problem sorted after 24 hours of PC hell :-(

Thanks again to all posters.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20562743 Fri, 30 May 2008 10:09:25 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20556254 anon : Its not the SCAN that is slow, its the entire PC usuage after installation. The AVG works amazingly well, but nothing else gets by with the serious speed reduction. :D]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20556254 Thu, 29 May 2008 06:44:35 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20549364 GroovyPhoenx : I've installed, 4 copies of AVG 8.0 (using the mentioned safesurf/safesearch removed option..

4 systems.

950 mhz
1.2 Ghz
1.8 Ghz
1.76 Ghz

EDIT: Fixed my ooops, meant Ghz not Mhz...

3 with 768mb of ram
1 with 512 (the 950) mb of ram.

Results?

No slowdowns, no more then AVG 7.5

In fact I found that it is a bit faster on the email portion. (yes I use Outlook as my reader) and, its not causing the "chug" that 7.5 would do on load up.

Thing to note, on my system I have 8 email addresses configured to poll and its not slow.

I also like the fact that they removed the "Outgoing" mail and that they finally realised that forcing a DAILY scan was a bit much and to allow you to configure it to be one WEEKLY scan instead.

Daily was a bit much, I do like a full scan once a week though.

I don't mind the daily update, for the 2 minutes or whatever it takes on boot up I enjoy the knowledge its updated.

My big pet peeve? Sometimes it does not DO IT on startup but waits for YOU to start doing something net related (and I have my net connection up 24/7) before it will update.

Overall? So far impressed, its not bad.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20549364 Tue, 27 May 2008 23:01:38 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20543786 anon : Oh thank God I found this forum. I thought it was just me having problems with AVG 8.0! It took me ages to figure out that the link scanner was slowing everything down to dial-up proportions. I uninstalled it and re-installed it again to see if there was an option not to load the link scanner at all (there isn't), and the only other option was to have that accusing exclamation mark staring at me from the taskbar if I disabled it!

Luckily I kept the installation for 7.5 and went straight back to that and now there's no more crawling to a halt! Would like to stop the incessant pop ups to upgrade though!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20543786 Mon, 26 May 2008 23:06:11 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20536750 R4M0N :

said by Fickey

:

I wonder if Grisoft makes a distinction between the sunset of paid AVG 7.5 and AVG 7.5 free?

I think they do. I haven't received any notice to upgrade "or else" on my company's computers. Then again, we are using 7.5 network edition.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20536750 Sun, 25 May 2008 09:53:46 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20533514 Fickey : I wonder if Grisoft makes a distinction between the sunset of paid AVG 7.5 and AVG 7.5 free?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20533514 Sat, 24 May 2008 12:24:13 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20532555 anon : Must have clicked the wrong reply button :p
My reply was directed at FiOS Dan and IIgs for confirming. :D

Cheers, Thanks again guys]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20532555 Sat, 24 May 2008 02:53:22 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20532537 anon : Excellent... thanks for the replies and confirming 7.5 will be supported until december. Hopefully AVG 8 will have the bugs worked out by then.

Mine is still telling me may 31st is the cutoff date,I hope it's not just the paid version thats supported until december... soon find out! lol Thanks again guys :D]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20532537 Sat, 24 May 2008 02:42:07 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20531080 IIgs :

said by reef69 :

I only upgraded to 8.0 because of the pop-up warning said my subscription expired May 31, 2008. Needless to say, after using 8.0 a week or two, I went back (should I say ran back!) to reinstalling 7.5, and now interestingly enough, the pop up warnings are no more!

Still concerned, I went into Security Status in my reinstalled 7.5, scrolled down to the license and it thankfully says:

"Your license will expire on 12/1/2008. When renewal is due, please visit www.grisoft.com to purchase your license renewal at a discounted price".

Not sure if reinstalling extended the license, or Grisoft changed their mind about May 31th. I'm also not sure what to expect at the end of the year, can I renew my 7.5 or will they force me to "upgrade" to 8.x? Whatever the case, if 8.0 is anything remotely like it is now come seven months, I'll be switching to something else...! No way is 8.0 going back on my system!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20531080 Fri, 23 May 2008 19:37:14 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20530164 FiOS Dan : There recently was a post in another thread reef69 that said it was confirmed in an AVG forum that December 31 is the cutoff date.
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Are you sure 7.5 will continue updating until december? I thought it was until the end of may. :huh:

I used version 8 for around 2 days and finally got fed up with it and returned to 7.5 figuring i'd have to find another antivirus by the end of the month...but if this is true and 7.5 will continue to be supported until december i'd be staying put with avg. Can anybody confirm that 7.5 will continue updating until december???]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20530127 Fri, 23 May 2008 16:05:12 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20524055 anon : There are many reasons why it is slow. #1 this program is bloated like other combo programs i.e. Norton. It does not come set up in its default install mode to run properly. One other post said his scan time went from 4 hrs to 17. The most likely reason is because AVG 8 does not default to fast scan. There is a slider bar and it is set in the middle. Plus there are so many other thngs to configure. They don't have "global" configurations. You can configure each little part even in the free version. That is good and bad. Bad for newbies because it makes everything worse by a long shot. This program needs big time work. I have been using it on workstations and servers and am very disappointed. There is no one size fits all check for everything. Is the person at work for 5 hours muddling around and does little work better than the person there for and hour that goes flat out and gets it done? Again spyware and virus scanning running together is not good. How could AVG have such a great product in ver. 7.5 and go to 8? If you look at the tools and advanced menu you can experiment with unchecking certain boxes. You have to be careful but for instance "Scan Potentially Unwanted Programs and Spyware Threats" is worthless as far as I am concerned. It adds massively to scan time with little payback. Also AVG 8 has many false positivse in active X controls from microsoft for example.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20524055 Thu, 22 May 2008 14:51:44 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20521336 jmorlan :

said by wvbanjo :

I will be changing soon, too bad we can't go back to 7.5, loved it!

You can go back to 7.5 if you saved an old installation file. I just re-installed 7.5 on two computers here. It updates fine and should be good until December. After that, maybe they will get the kinks out of 8.x.
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I switched for this reason. I had a great running system where I could game, work on Video, graphics, etc. and the scanner not interfere. Now with AVG8 I'm feeling just like I have Norton or McAfee installed. I will be changing soon, too bad we can't go back to 7.5, loved it! This thing is sluggish to say the least!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20521254 Thu, 22 May 2008 00:06:09 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20519121 anon : 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20519121 Wed, 21 May 2008 17:36:53 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20512745 ironwalker : 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20512745 Tue, 20 May 2008 15:16:44 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20512686 ironwalker :

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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20512686 Tue, 20 May 2008 15:09:28 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20512669 ironwalker : 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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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20512669 Tue, 20 May 2008 15:07:28 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20506107 ethics : 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... ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20506107 Mon, 19 May 2008 12:21:27 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20506098 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20506098 Mon, 19 May 2008 12:19:41 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20505749 anon :

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 :(]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20505749 Mon, 19 May 2008 11:02:50 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20473017 rugmankc : Excuse the dumb question.

But, won't unchecking that lower the effectiveness of your scan?

Ken]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20473017 Mon, 12 May 2008 22:59:20 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20473006 rugmankc : 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.

Ken]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20473006 Mon, 12 May 2008 22:57:50 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20469916 anon : 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20469916 Mon, 12 May 2008 13:27:38 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20469831 Finger2208 :

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!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20469831 Mon, 12 May 2008 13:11:18 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20469779 anon : 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...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20469779 Mon, 12 May 2008 13:01:56 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20469612 lmilone : 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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20469612 Mon, 12 May 2008 12:21:45 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20465960 kw : 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. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20465960 Sun, 11 May 2008 15:54:25 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20464805 Mactron : 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. :huh:
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If only the Verizon CSRs worked this well. ;)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20464805 Sun, 11 May 2008 10:20:14 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20464796 Finger2208 : 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20464796 Sun, 11 May 2008 10:16:09 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20464717 traveler55 : 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!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20464717 Sun, 11 May 2008 09:50:59 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20464647 Jan Janowski : 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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AMD's Athlon 64 X2 6000+ processor (two cores at 3GHz)
4 Gb ram]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20464521 Sun, 11 May 2008 08:21:10 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20464399 wvcaver : AVG 8 is crashing my Firefox 2.0.0.14 !]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20464399 Sun, 11 May 2008 06:51:58 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20464289 darthboy : I just had some popup ads (heh :uhh:) on both my computers saying that updates to 7.5 will end at the end of the month and I need to have 8.0. Bummer.

Is there any way to install 8.0 without having the browser integration? ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20464289 Sun, 11 May 2008 04:33:08 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20461645 anon : Yes, I agree. There should be a spyware option. I use spybot and that is good enough for me. AVG gives many false positives on the spyware check. Newbies think this is good because it "finds" something. What a laugh. I am made because I liked the OLD Avg.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20461645 Sat, 10 May 2008 13:52:27 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20461630 anon : Yes, I have used AVG for years and now this version * with all the other junk in it has turned it into a dog. Especially with scanning time. I went from 2.5 hours to 4.5 hours scanning on the exact same P.C. This program has turned into McAfee/Norton a resource hog and dog. I use both paid networked version at work and the free versions for home. I am the IT guy at work and our license is coming up for renewal on May 20th and if this doesn't change I am going to another vendor. I am very upset. All the networked P.C.'s are still on 7.5.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20461630 Sat, 10 May 2008 13:47:58 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20461604 rugmankc : Disabled linkscanner thru firefox addons.

Scan settings set to default. About 150,000 items in 27 minutes.

No slowdown. No problems other than the add banner at bottom of control center window to buy AVG 8.0. Maybe it will go away eventually. But, not a big deal. Updates are faster.

8.0 uninstalled 7.5 during the install process. No problems

Ken]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20461604 Sat, 10 May 2008 13:41:21 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20459956 Tyreman : there was is a download from ms to do with avg.
when i tried to install avg it gave the update.
kb929547 said to get that first.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20459956 Sat, 10 May 2008 00:14:55 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20457776 anon : 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've liked AVG for a long time,it was always lightweight,easy on resources,fast,and did what it was supposed to do.I'll now be looking elsewhere for an antivirus solution.

So long AVG]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20457776 Fri, 09 May 2008 15:38:51 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20457502 anon : I am not sure what OS you have but Windows xp alone has far more than 70,000+ "object"' because that is what the program is scanning. Typically most people have more like 300,000+ objects. The P.C. I am on now has been scanning for 3.5 hours and probably has another 2 to go. I am letting the program run to the end to see exactly how long it takes. It is configured to run the fasteset speed it can. The P.C. is not very good, and I wouldn't mind more time just not like this. I am deciding whether to deploy the new AVG 8 for my business and so far a resounding NO is the answer. We have been very happy with AVG 7.5 for years. I put the new AVG in the classes with Norton and all the other far too agreesive dogs with nothing more than a name. Just like Vista a shiny dog that cannot walk without assistance! A person or user should be able to still use the P.C. during a scan. Maybe the performance is slower but again SOFTWARE is supposed to work with us for productivity. We are not supposed to alter our work for it. A big loss for AVG!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20457502 Fri, 09 May 2008 14:37:02 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20449975 anon : I installed it last week and scanning isn't much faster/slower, but the start-up time of Windows almost doubled!!

Setup:
AMD Athlon X2 6400+
3x 1GB Kingston HyperX 800mhz 4-4-4-12 2T

Windows Vista Business x86 SP1

I guess i will be buying NOD32 soon...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20449975 Thu, 08 May 2008 04:54:53 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20445764 anon : My scanning isn't any slower, but I immediately realized that it was slowing my browsing to a painful crawl.

All I had to do was open the AVG user interface, open the "Link scanner" section and disable it. That completely took care of the problem. :) ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20445764 Wed, 07 May 2008 13:15:17 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20436937 pepperxn : I just got the popup that says 7.5 won't be supported after the end of this month today.

I wonder if this is a mistake, and they mean december, not may.

When AVG 8 reached beta, I looked at the list of known issues/bugs, and soon after that, it released as final. I knew it wasn't a good sign. If 7.5 isn't supported after this month, after a week or so, I'll either upgrade AVG to 8.0.latest build, or ditch it for Avast or Avira.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20436937 Mon, 05 May 2008 21:15:51 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20436856 anon : I have now installed the AVG 8 as suggested in Falcon04's post. (see below)
To be sure that AVG 8 was not slowing me down, I installed it on my old laptop, IBM T23, 1.1 processor, 512 ram and a slowpoke 4,200 rpm hard drive.
I have tested an retested, and I cannot feel any slowdown whatsoever, comparing it to the 7.5, nor to Avira.
It may take a bit more ram than the previous, but that's the only difference that I see. (Once warmed up and calmed down, 55 megs of ram with XP)
I have noticed that it takes a fair bit less ram on my Vista puter, maybe 35 megs of ram total.

Considering that this version does more and handles spyware too, I have to give it a thumbs up.
PS: Full scans take no longer than with the 7.5, maybe even less time.

"Download the AVG 8.0 Free Edition installation package from our website.

save the AVG Free installation file directly to disk C:\

open menu Start -> Run

type ( copy and paste is easier )

c:\avg_free_stf_en_8_100a1295.exe /REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSurf /REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSearch"]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20436856 Mon, 05 May 2008 21:00:44 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20428936 Anonymous_ :

said by alt2541

:

Installed the full free AVG 8 and did notice the avgsrx.exe run at about 41,000 but when unchecking linkscanner under components tab it dropped to around 21,800---have not noticed any slow downs on a fresh install of xpp sp3---have not done a full scan yet. How long b4 7.5 goes away---will stay with it on the other boxen for a while......

my only uses 15MB

YEs THAT IS A LOT OF system REsorces! :uhh: 15 whole Megabytes :hmm:

anti virus enabled
anti spyware enabled
anti rootkit enabled

Explorer.exe is eating 58Megabytes/

internet explorer is using 100's of megabytes :uhh: help me free upsome RAM]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20428936 Sun, 04 May 2008 03:16:24 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20420811 Luppy :

said by ks_av8r

:

I had a pop-up that indicated 7.5 wouldn't be supported after the end of this month.

I got the same pop up this morning.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20420811 Fri, 02 May 2008 11:30:38 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20420512 ks_av8r : I had a pop-up that indicated 7.5 wouldn't be supported after the end of this month. Who knows, that may change.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20420512 Fri, 02 May 2008 10:31:26 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20420364 traveler55 : Thanks, that is exactualy the way I did install, from the rename shortcut, and it worked. I must the linkscanner was really slowing down my system. Granted it is 8 years old but hey I have never had to fix one single piece of hardware todate. :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20420364 Fri, 02 May 2008 10:00:33 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20420247 alt2541 : Installed the full free AVG 8 and did notice the avgsrx.exe run at about 41,000 but when unchecking linkscanner under components tab it dropped to around 21,800---have not noticed any slow downs on a fresh install of xpp sp3---have not done a full scan yet. How long b4 7.5 goes away---will stay with it on the other boxen for a while......]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20420247 Fri, 02 May 2008 09:30:41 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20418886 j2 : AVG 8.0 is slower than AVG 7.5 on my system plus AVG8.0 uses more memory ram than AVG 7.5 and the application response time is slower with AVG 8.0

]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20418886 Thu, 01 May 2008 22:47:03 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20418224 Grail Knight : AVG 8 is not using any more memory then the previous version and scan time might be a few minutes longer on my machine.

I use ZAP also and AVG 8 is getting along fine with it.
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"Why answer any questions when you can pull a MuMu"? - unknown]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20418224 Thu, 01 May 2008 20:18:36 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20417976 falcon04 : This works - I've condensed from the AVG FAQ and input the actual install filename I downloaded into the command line:
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How to install AVG without LinkScanner

If you wish to install AVG 8.0 Free Edition without the LinkScanner component, or uninstall this component from your program, please proceed as follows:

Download the AVG 8.0 Free Edition installation package from our website.

save the AVG Free installation file directly to disk C:\

open menu Start -> Run

type ( copy and paste is easier )

c:\avg_free_stf_en_8_100a1295.exe /REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSurf /REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSearch

The installation will be started, and AVG will be installed without the LinkScanner component.
---------------------

I did not install the E-mail Scanner, and created 2 shortcuts:

Update shortcut: ( target ) - for silent update

"C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG8\avgupd.exe" /sched=

Location of update files: ( target )

"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\avg8\update\download"

I installed on my slower laptop ( 1.7 Ghz Celeron Toshiba, XP SP2 ) and it appears to only marginally slow browsing - haven't tested scans but I do this on-demand anyway.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20417976 Thu, 01 May 2008 19:11:48 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20401612 Finger2208 :

said by traveler55

:

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!

According to the email I received from Grisoft a little over a month ago, you can't skip the linkscanner in the Pro version as well. "Note that AVG LinkScanner component is a core AVG component and can not be excluded from the installation" is exactly how it was worded. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20401612 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:41:39 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20401193 zach3 : I have upgraded 2 XP Pro machines so far with AVG 8 Free and have seen no problems what so ever.

Zach]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20401193 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:20:27 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20401160 Jovi : I haven't had a problems upgrading to 8.0. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20401160 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:14:26 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20400441 dinferno : It's in matunga's link to grisoft's site...

Anyways...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20400441 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:08:32 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20399423 traveler55 : 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20399423 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:13:58 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20399347 matunga :

said by traveler55

:

I tried custom install and unfortunately the link scanner still installs

Run the installer with the parameters /REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSurf /REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSearch:
avg_free_stf_all_8_100a1295.exe /REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSurf /REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSearch
»free.grisoft.com/ww.faq.num-1338#faq_1338]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20399347 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:00:27 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20399270 traveler55 : 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!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20399270 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:45:25 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20398265 falcon04 : I did the same - still going to wait. Perhaps a conflict with BoClean or ProcessGuard ??]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20398265 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:45:52 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20397985 Anonymous_ : my all ready Scan 217,000 in 2 min's]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20397985 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:21:58 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20397889 jmorlan : 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.
--
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)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20397889 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:37:55 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20397532 falcon04 : 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20397532 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:15:34 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20397499 LadyL : 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. :D
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Lonnie

Did a scan...85,795 objects - 24 minutes and 41 seconds. Still, that isn't bad at all.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20397499 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:05:11 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20397188 R4M0N : 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20397188 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:49:53 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20397055 FiOS Dan : 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.
--
Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.
]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20397055 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:23:53 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20396831 falcon04 : 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20396831 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:42:48 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20396453 j2 : My firewall has stopped responding due to AVG's memory usage and the whole system slowed down then crashed!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20396453 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:16:03 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20396382 Allyn_P : 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20396382 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:59:13 EDT AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20396198 anon : 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!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20396198 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:23:37 EDT Re: AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20395839 mark5019 : takes longer but might be because of soy ware check

mine takes 30 mins]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20395839 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:41:10 EDT AVG 8 EXTREMELY slow? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20395757 Dagda1175 : 7.5 completed a scan in about 40 minutes. 8 takes about three hours. Anyone else noticing this or did mine install somehow wrong?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20395757 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:19:16 EDT