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AVG Free; The Buffer Slayer?
MVP's et.al.;
I am finding that I need to reboot more often with AVG Free (Dec 9/04) than I did with AVG 6/7. It seems that my buffers require purging after 3-4 hours of googling or site-hopping in order to keep site access~ page u/l~ d/l times reasonable. With AVG7, I only did this once or twice a week. Since I am running (so to speak) with 16MB@ 133MHz, my cpu's performance margin is easily challenged and very quick to complain if a background app starts running unbidden, or when the buffers need a new shift to punch in. I am not bothered about doing more frequent restarts; the protection afforded more than offsets the minor incovenience. But I do have one concern born of being both an 'ingenubie' and being afflicted with 2 identical kinds of noid. I adduce that some alien predators; (a) cause performance degradation fairly soon after infection. and (b) some of them are only fully activated *after* a reboot. Hence, a dilemma: If I become by a sudden slowdown that I might have been bitten by a bug, or even if AVG does alert to a stinker, do I run a 'stale' scan immediately or do I recharge the buffers with a reboot before scnning? The problem with a 'stale' scan is that AVG Free can take up to 2 hours to complete when the buffers are maxed up, vs. about 24 minutes when buffers are 'neat'. The onliest program I have installed in a long time is AVG Free Regards, rooster boundary bay, bc |
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Have you tried the free Anti-Vir program?
"rooster" wrote in message ... MVP's et.al.; I am finding that I need to reboot more often with AVG Free (Dec 9/04) than I did with AVG 6/7. It seems that my buffers require purging after 3-4 hours of googling or site-hopping in order to keep site access~ page u/l~ d/l times reasonable. With AVG7, I only did this once or twice a week. Since I am running (so to speak) with 16MB@ 133MHz, my cpu's performance margin is easily challenged and very quick to complain if a background app starts running unbidden, or when the buffers need a new shift to punch in. I am not bothered about doing more frequent restarts; the protection afforded more than offsets the minor incovenience. But I do have one concern born of being both an 'ingenubie' and being afflicted with 2 identical kinds of noid. I adduce that some alien predators; (a) cause performance degradation fairly soon after infection. and (b) some of them are only fully activated *after* a reboot. Hence, a dilemma: If I become by a sudden slowdown that I might have been bitten by a bug, or even if AVG does alert to a stinker, do I run a 'stale' scan immediately or do I recharge the buffers with a reboot before scnning? The problem with a 'stale' scan is that AVG Free can take up to 2 hours to complete when the buffers are maxed up, vs. about 24 minutes when buffers are 'neat'. The onliest program I have installed in a long time is AVG Free Regards, rooster boundary bay, bc |
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While AVG 7 Free is supported in Win9x, not all users find it troublefree, O
Cocky One. AVG Free Support Forum http://free.grisoft.com/doc/Forum/lng/us/tpl/v5 AVG Free FAQ http://free.grisoft.com/doc/FAQ/lng/us/tpl/v5 -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE) rooster wrote: MVP's et.al.; I am finding that I need to reboot more often with AVG Free (Dec 9/04) than I did with AVG 6/7. It seems that my buffers require purging after 3-4 hours of googling or site-hopping in order to keep site access~ page u/l~ d/l times reasonable. With AVG7, I only did this once or twice a week. Since I am running (so to speak) with 16MB@ 133MHz, my cpu's performance margin is easily challenged and very quick to complain if a background app starts running unbidden, or when the buffers need a new shift to punch in. I am not bothered about doing more frequent restarts; the protection afforded more than offsets the minor incovenience. But I do have one concern born of being both an 'ingenubie' and being afflicted with 2 identical kinds of noid. I adduce that some alien predators; (a) cause performance degradation fairly soon after infection. and (b) some of them are only fully activated *after* a reboot. Hence, a dilemma: If I become by a sudden slowdown that I might have been bitten by a bug, or even if AVG does alert to a stinker, do I run a 'stale' scan immediately or do I recharge the buffers with a reboot before scnning? The problem with a 'stale' scan is that AVG Free can take up to 2 hours to complete when the buffers are maxed up, vs. about 24 minutes when buffers are 'neat'. The onliest program I have installed in a long time is AVG Free Regards, rooster boundary bay, bc |
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from Grisoft Freeweb: FAQ 1.6: Minimal system requirements for AVG Free:
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5469/lng/us/tpl/v5 "AVG Free is fully compatible with Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/W2000/WXP operating systems." That is simply not true. It is definitely NOT "fully" compatible with Windows 95 on the installations I have tried, or heard about. Makes me wonder if Grisoft actually tested it on that platform. BTW....cockadoodle-doo, Happy Gnu Year to both of you. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "PA Bear" wrote in message ... While AVG 7 Free is supported in Win9x, not all users find it troublefree, O Cocky One. AVG Free Support Forum http://free.grisoft.com/doc/Forum/lng/us/tpl/v5 AVG Free FAQ http://free.grisoft.com/doc/FAQ/lng/us/tpl/v5 -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE) rooster wrote: MVP's et.al.; I am finding that I need to reboot more often with AVG Free (Dec 9/04) than I did with AVG 6/7. It seems that my buffers require purging after 3-4 hours of googling or site-hopping in order to keep site access~ page u/l~ d/l times reasonable. With AVG7, I only did this once or twice a week. Since I am running (so to speak) with 16MB@ 133MHz, my cpu's performance margin is easily challenged and very quick to complain if a background app starts running unbidden, or when the buffers need a new shift to punch in. I am not bothered about doing more frequent restarts; the protection afforded more than offsets the minor incovenience. But I do have one concern born of being both an 'ingenubie' and being afflicted with 2 identical kinds of noid. I adduce that some alien predators; (a) cause performance degradation fairly soon after infection. and (b) some of them are only fully activated *after* a reboot. Hence, a dilemma: If I become by a sudden slowdown that I might have been bitten by a bug, or even if AVG does alert to a stinker, do I run a 'stale' scan immediately or do I recharge the buffers with a reboot before scnning? The problem with a 'stale' scan is that AVG Free can take up to 2 hours to complete when the buffers are maxed up, vs. about 24 minutes when buffers are 'neat'. The onliest program I have installed in a long time is AVG Free Regards, rooster boundary bay, bc |
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Hello Rooster,
I am new to computers also. I have AVG free. I recently downloaded AD-Aware SE Personal, It is Free and found at www.lavasoft.com. This has helped with my system greatly. Give it a try and let me know what you think. Lost Again "rooster" wrote: MVP's et.al.; I am finding that I need to reboot more often with AVG Free (Dec 9/04) than I did with AVG 6/7. It seems that my buffers require purging after 3-4 hours of googling or site-hopping in order to keep site access~ page u/l~ d/l times reasonable. With AVG7, I only did this once or twice a week. Since I am running (so to speak) with 16MB@ 133MHz, my cpu's performance margin is easily challenged and very quick to complain if a background app starts running unbidden, or when the buffers need a new shift to punch in. I am not bothered about doing more frequent restarts; the protection afforded more than offsets the minor incovenience. But I do have one concern born of being both an 'ingenubie' and being afflicted with 2 identical kinds of noid. I adduce that some alien predators; (a) cause performance degradation fairly soon after infection. and (b) some of them are only fully activated *after* a reboot. Hence, a dilemma: If I become by a sudden slowdown that I might have been bitten by a bug, or even if AVG does alert to a stinker, do I run a 'stale' scan immediately or do I recharge the buffers with a reboot before scnning? The problem with a 'stale' scan is that AVG Free can take up to 2 hours to complete when the buffers are maxed up, vs. about 24 minutes when buffers are 'neat'. The onliest program I have installed in a long time is AVG Free Regards, rooster boundary bay, bc |
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Y'all;
I checked the AVG Free [Dec. 9/04] FAQ's & Bumph before installing. The reason I jumped at the "Fix", as AVG meekly calls it, was v.7 was arbitrarily randomizing/editing Windows Selective Startup Lists for many faithful v.6 users, me included. AVG Forum Folk have begun querying slowdown issues as they are just now beginning to appear; e.g. AVG Free bogging down before completing, spyware scans bogging down and one poster complaining that with 80%+ of system resources free, and all temp & etc. files purged, her Win ME O/S is close to meltdown. No doubt some of these are run-of-the-mill installation/tweaking issues. Oh yes, and some jerk who signs in over there as 'irod' seems to be having the same problem as me. Go figure. Since I started this thread, I discovered (with 88% resources free and after a fresh boot) that Ad-Aware 6.0 SE, aČ free, & SpyBot-S&D 1.3 [advanced] scan rates plunge to near stagnation in mid scan. I haven't completed a scan with any of them. As of yesterday, the AVG 'savvy set' hadn't articulated a cogent response and I honestly can't say whether these problems are widespread or only affect a few users. Perhaps there aren't any answers yet and I'll just have to be a little patient. I don't have the wetware to understand just what "compatability issues" might actually entail; blaming the buffers is just my best guess. Perhaps I should have named this thread: "Buffer the Spyware Slayer" .... but no.... that might have seemed a little cocky, eh? ......and "Guppy Gnu Deer" to you, too, O august and wizened Majestrates O' the Peerage, may temperance, wisdom and honour be 'rampant' upon your noble escutheons, a symbol of condign benignity and puissance to us humble folk abiding in your surfdom[sic] as you sit upon your estimable and prodigious assizes in the coming twelve-month.. wassail & huzzah! rooster |
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Thanks Lost Again, & Happy New Year;
We posted simultaneously so you couldn't have seen that I have Ad-Aware 6.0 SE already. But thanks for the consideration. rooster boundary bay. bc Advice for the New Year: "Never slap a man who chews tobacco." From: The Boundary Bay Morning Steamer January 1, 2005 |
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reinstall adaware, 6.0 is dead and buried and hasnt had an update release
for ages gotoget SE -- Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de spybot http://security.kolla.de AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com Etrust/vet/CA 12 Month free trial (till Feb 2005) http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/ Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/ActiveScan/ Catalog of removal tools (1) http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/ Catalog of removal tools (2) http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387 Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters _ "rooster" wrote in message ... Thanks Lost Again, & Happy New Year; We posted simultaneously so you couldn't have seen that I have Ad-Aware 6.0 SE already. But thanks for the consideration. rooster boundary bay. bc Advice for the New Year: "Never slap a man who chews tobacco." From: The Boundary Bay Morning Steamer January 1, 2005 |
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1. There is (outdated) 'Ad-aware 6' and then there's 'Ad-aware SE'. There
is not an 'Ad-aware 6 SE': You either have one or the other. 2. Many Win9x users have found that Ad-aware and Spybot work much more effectively and scan more quickly with anti-virus (*any* anti-virus, not just AVG) disabled. Careful! If you choose to do so, you should be physically disconnected from the internet. -- ~PA Bear rooster wrote: Y'all; I checked the AVG Free [Dec. 9/04] FAQ's & Bumph before installing. The reason I jumped at the "Fix", as AVG meekly calls it, was v.7 was arbitrarily randomizing/editing Windows Selective Startup Lists for many faithful v.6 users, me included. AVG Forum Folk have begun querying slowdown issues as they are just now beginning to appear; e.g. AVG Free bogging down before completing, spyware scans bogging down and one poster complaining that with 80%+ of system resources free, and all temp & etc. files purged, her Win ME O/S is close to meltdown. No doubt some of these are run-of-the-mill installation/tweaking issues. Oh yes, and some jerk who signs in over there as 'irod' seems to be having the same problem as me. Go figure. Since I started this thread, I discovered (with 88% resources free and after a fresh boot) that Ad-Aware 6.0 SE, aČ free, & SpyBot-S&D 1.3 [advanced] scan rates plunge to near stagnation in mid scan. I haven't completed a scan with any of them. As of yesterday, the AVG 'savvy set' hadn't articulated a cogent response and I honestly can't say whether these problems are widespread or only affect a few users. Perhaps there aren't any answers yet and I'll just have to be a little patient. I don't have the wetware to understand just what "compatability issues" might actually entail; blaming the buffers is just my best guess. Perhaps I should have named this thread: "Buffer the Spyware Slayer" .... but no.... that might have seemed a little cocky, eh? .....and "Guppy Gnu Deer" to you, too, O august and wizened Majestrates O' the Peerage, may temperance, wisdom and honour be 'rampant' upon your noble escutheons, a symbol of condign benignity and puissance to us humble folk abiding in your surfdom[sic] as you sit upon your estimable and prodigious assizes in the coming twelve-month.. wassail & huzzah! rooster |
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Almost;
Good party last nite??? Things a little blurry today?? Eh? Maybe a cup o' 'lectric java to pitch that pesky ol' horizon back on bubble? Me, I'm barely sentient at the best of times.... so I'm loathe to assume, but didn't I write "... I have Ad-Aware 6.0 SE already." in my post to LostAgain? |___________________| | ^ _ | | (©) (©) | | ------ooo--(_)--ooo------| | ///~ \\\ | |___________________| |
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