AVG is really annoying

i downloaded avg a while back and had no problems with it. recently ive been haveing about 100 popups from avg saying i have viruses and trojans... they dont really exist i ran mulitple scans online and offline and they aren't their... i downloaded a new anti-virus called avast! and now i want to uninstall avg but it wont let me

anyone have any ideas?

 

Run the AVG setup program again. There is an option to uninstall when it opens.

 

the pop ups you are getting are true but avg is already healing them, go to your virus vault and there you will see the viruses they are talking about. avg picks up viruses most programs miss. the only one that is better is microtrend/pc cillin think twice before you change. but if you still want to try these if your running windows
1. go to add/remove programs and delete
2. if you have a utility go to file wipe and get rid of it
3. if worse comes to worse go to c:\ program files\grisoft and delete folder
good luck

 

You must be doing something wrong with AVG then, because I've been using it for a long time & it's not once let me down. Never had a problem updating or with how it performs.

 

Same here. AVG is a great, free antivirus program. I used to use Norton and found AVG much better.

 

ok so I was wrong, avg FOR SOME REASON DOES NOT DETECT VIRUSES IN SYSTEM RESTORE FILES when you run AVG you need to turn off system restore. if you already have bugs in your system restore run trend micros house call http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ this will clean out your system rerstore files
everybody makes mistakes

 

Some online virus scans give false positives to trick people into thinking they have a virus and the product being sold online is superior to others.

Not saying that's what happened to you MaXimus but AVG is an excellent antivus program that-if updated regularly-will find every virus on a computer as good or better than every other antivirus program out there.

AVG works for me.

 

Not true. AVG will detect and notify you of infected files in System Restore, but it cannot remove them. You must turn off SR and then turn it back on in order to remove the restore points containing infected files-- unfortunately at the expense of good restore points. An inconvenience, but I would rather keep SR on, and have to deal with those times when SR picks up some bad files, than do without SR altogether. The possibility exists with any AV that a bad file can get into a restore point before being detected by the AV.

As to the earlier statement that AVG fails to heal certain files it finds, that is indeed true-- when those files' attributes are set to "system". I wouldn't want any cleaner program to summarily delete a system file without warning, since some viruses replace system files with copies of themselves so they will be executed by Windows, or unwittingly by the user himself.

 

Ok just downloaded the NOD32 trial version & ran it. Nothing was found, so I guess my machine is clean.

I don't use System Restore myself. I use GoBack, pretty much does the same thing, only better.