wtnhunt Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 I know there are several people out there using it. Is anyone else having to restart there computer with every single update? This is an every day thing. Getting kind of annoying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kid Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 i haven't had any problems with it, but i can see where that would get annoying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebeilgard Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 never heard of it. i leave my computer on for days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddyboman Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 Yes I have AVG on some of my computers.... I do have to restart after some updates....but its not an everyday thing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 I never have to restart due to AVG updates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griz Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 No! So far I haven't had any problems with it here William... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texastrophies Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 I have avg free on my personal computer and a paid subscription on the company computer and I don't have to restart on either one of them. Might check your settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michihunter Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 I've used it for years with no problems whatsoever. Might want to check your settings to see why that's happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted December 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 Might check your settings. I did, everything looks like it always has. For some reason it has been doing this for about the last month or so. Every day after it downloads the update, it will say that it needs to restart. If I dont restart it will show that the AVG is not active, display is shades of gray instead of the colored icon in the tray. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddyboman Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 might want to reinstall it, obviously something is not right. Had to do that to one of mine once....cause it wouldn't do the auto updates....and like you said all the settings were correct.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andrea Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 AVG? No, but sometimes with the Norton updates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted December 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 might want to reinstall it Yeah, think I might just dump it and start over with a fresh install. My other antivirus software is running fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Finn Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 I never have to restart due to AVG updates. me either Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckee Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 Yeah, think I might just dump it and start over with a fresh install. My other antivirus software is running fine. Maybe it's a conflict with your other running antivirus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted December 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 Maybe it's a conflict with your other running antivirus Would not think so Steve, had not had any issues with the other programs running together before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddyboman Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 Steve does have a point....as I'm sure you know some virus softwares can't run together.... maybe and update to your other virus software is causing the issue with AVG?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 Maybe it's a conflict with your other running antivirus Yep, in spite of what you may of been told or think you are experiencing. Two anti-virus programs running together, in real time protection mode, on the same machine without conflict is practically impossible. Unless the two softwares were developed together by the same company they simply won't play well together. Tweaking the settings of these two programs to get them to work together inevitably leaves you less protected than if just one program was installed and running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MallardPrincess Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 I have it and have been using avg for the last 6 years and no I never have to start my computer after an update, maybe you should remove the program and reload it again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CampRAGS Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 last time that happen to me i lost my hard drive.....two weeks to get it right.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M00N Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 Yep, in spite of what you may of been told or think you are experiencing. Two anti-virus programs running together, in real time protection mode, on the same machine without conflict is practically impossible. Unless the two softwares were developed together by the same company they simply won't play well together. Tweaking the settings of these two programs to get them to work together inevitably leaves you less protected than if just one program was installed and running. I completely agree with what Leo has said. I use Kaspersky Internet Security myself and when I purchased it they sent me a big e-mail reminding me that all other Anti-Virus, Firewall, etc. must be uninstalled before installing it due to conflicts and security risks. Most Anti-Viruses that I've tried in the past if you go read their instructions/manuals all specify that other similar programs must be uninstalled to use them properly. I'd highly recommend using only one Anti-Virus program. In either case both should be uninstalled and the one you like best put back in by itself. By having them both installed there is a very high risk that both anti-viruses are not functioning properly at the moment, insecure, and probably have a few missing/corrupt files due to them seeing each other as an intruder most likely and "fighting" with one another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted December 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 Thanks everyone, think I will probably just remove the AVG and leave it off, at least for now. Other than restarting for the updates with avg to take effect, there has been no problems. It had been running fine as it is for quite some time with both running. I dont know why if it is the case that the other program is causing this in the way of a conflict that it started when it did a month or so back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 When uninstalling a anti-virus program. Windows Add/Remove programs utility is quite often NOT enough. Norton is particularly persistent. You really should download their removal tool and use it before installing another anti-virus program. You actually should do this if you are upgrading Norton as well. If there is no Unistall package on the products website use their unistall program provided with the software. Should be accessible through your start menu. Still I've experienced having to use other uninstall/clean up utilities to completely remove an anti-virus program. A partial uninstall can be as messy as trying to run two anti-virus programs. It's even more frustrating because the average user thinks that program is "gone". The other thing it could be besides a conflict is a regenerative virus. These things latch into your system restore and reinfect every time you reboot the computer. If the anti-virus software finds these type programs, it does delete them. But it does not remove it from system restore. So magically you get reinfected by the same virus over and over. You MUST do this. When the program finds a virus. Turn OFF system restore, power down (don't just restart), reboot and then scan again. If it scans clean, then you can turn restore back on. Some viruses can not be permanently removed with any anti-virus program or protocall. You have to download a specific removal tool to clean the infection. Don't just assume your program caught it and got rid of it. If a specific virus shows up regularly in your scans, you need to research it's removal recommendations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowJoe Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 I recently removed AVG Free because I had a virus I couldn't get removed and it even blocked the scanner on Ad-Adware. I tried everything from AVG to Bit Defender and nothing deleted it. Don't get me wrong, AVG detected it but could not remove it or fix it. I checked on a certain site and asked a few of the smarter people I know. They said to try avast. It's free and all you have to do is go to their site. They will redirect you to a download site and you're off and runnin. Of course I deleted avg first and then installed avast. It will do a complete hard drive scan when it reboots and then it won't do it again unless you want it to. The very first scan found the virus, deleted it along with two others that i didn't even know about. The first one was actually attached to Ad-Aware. The best part is this program runs in the background with even less interference than avg let alone Norton and McAfee. It updates automatically and has yet to ask me to restart. I used avg for 4 years and never thought I'd try anything else. Man am I glad I did. Good luck and maybe avast will work better for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted December 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 Norton is particularly persistent. You really should download their removal tool and use it before installing another anti-virus program. You actually should do this if you are upgrading Norton as well. If there is no Unistall package on the products website use their unistall program provided with the software. Should be accessible through your start menu. Still I've experienced having to use other uninstall/clean up utilities to completely remove an anti-virus program. A partial uninstall can be as messy as trying to run two anti-virus programs. It's even more frustrating because the average user thinks that program is "gone". Thanks Leo. This is AVG, not norton, and it does have the uninstall option through the start menu. I will not use norton for the reason you mentioned, norton is notorious for embedding in a system. Both norton and mcafee were loaded on this dell when I bought it and one of the first things I did was to remove both. My other software is part of a utility package, "fix it utilities" from avanquest, that antivirus software is from trend micro. Neither scanner is finding any viruses, so I dont think the computer is infected. Actually think maybe an update sometime for avg may have caused the corruption or problem that is requiring the restart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Posted December 22, 2007 Report Share Posted December 22, 2007 I didn't mean to imply you had a Norton problem. I only meant to mention Norton as a example of one of the softwares that really embeds in the system. Any of the anti-virus softwares out there right now with "active" protection do that to some degree. Norton is just most known for it. But since you do mention Norton was pre-installed on your computer, I urge you to download the Windows Installer cleanup utility from Microsoft. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301 Use this to remove all the remaining "Symantec" exe's. Prepare to be surprised, there actually may still be some in there. This program will find it if there are. Why doesn't Microsoft just make Windows do that to begin with? I don't know. They know how to, obviously, they wrote the utility. Just one of the many mysteries of the Microsoft universe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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