Re: Why does AVG AntiVirus take soooooooooooooooo looooooooooooooooong?
de EFMenzel 06/17/2006 04:35
I had the same problem so I deleted the program and changed to avast which
is also free and I think much better.
EFMenzel
"Anonymous" <noemail@noisp.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:JIqdncDa4LxpjQnZnZ2dnUVZ_ridnZ2d@comcast.com...
> AVG version 7.9.394
> Virus Definitions updated this morning.
>
> This has been going on for the last few weeks. Each time I turn on my
> computer, the hard drive runs like an olympic sprinter for 30 minutes or
> more. When I check Task Manager's Process Tab, the culprit that is eating
> up all the resources is avgw.exe. When I click on Task Manager's
> Performance Tab, the CPU is running between 59% and 100%. I right-click on
> the AVG icon in my system tray, select any command and a dialog box pops
> up saying "Another process is already running."
>
> The definition download is scheduled to occur at 9:30 AM and the scheduled
> daily scan starts at 10 AM. I turn-on the computer between 5:30 and 7:00
> in the morning. So what the hell is AVG doing that eats 100% of my CPU for
> 30 or more minutes each time that my computer boots?
>
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