Reccommend Me Some Free Anti-Virus Software and Maybe Internet Security, You Know the Like :)

AVG 9.0 totally stuffed my system up yesterday. Couldn't even open a browser, despite reinstalling it a second time after system restore.

Giving Avira a shot since last night, seems ok.

thanks for the heads up with the AVAST programme just replaced AVIRA with AVAST and it found 3 virus's on my lappy!

AVG makes Kate's Vista laptop unusable when it's running a scan, so I shall be changing it to Avast when I get a chance. Cheers.

Anyone had a problem uninstalling AVG, I can't seem to do it.

[dizzyblonde]

Just find the 'uninstall AVG' programme on your computer and it does it automatically. It was as easy as that when I did it.

Originally Posted by lily

Me and drew both use Microsoft Security Essentials we did have AVG but like dizzy it was slowing down vista a lot.

No problems since installing the above.

Im going to throw my weight behind this suggestion. I recently removed Kaspersky from all my computers and have begun using the Microsoft suite mentioned above. Its free, super easy to use, doesnt bug you unless the proverbial is hitting the fan and updates through Microsoft update (which you should be using anyway)

[madcockney]

Originally Posted by madness

Anyone had a problem uninstalling AVG, I can't seem to do it.

We have just changed at work from AVG, the commercial product, to Sophos (only available as a commercial product and not in shops). We changed due to too many false positives, slowing down the machines, and hogging our servers. (450 computers including laptops, and numerous servers.)

There is a problem in some instances in the removal of AVG. Even a later version of AVG cannot always remove an earlier version automatically and you have to remove using the AVG uninstaller or "via Add or Remove" in Control Panel. When that doesn't work you have to fire up Regedit do a search on AVG and delete all entries relating to AVGx where x relate to version numbers, The you can remove the folder containing AVG and any remaining shortcuts, etc.

[Viney]

Originally Posted by madness

Anyone had a problem uninstalling AVG, I can't seem to do it.

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

Just find the 'uninstall AVG' programme on your computer and it does it automatically. It was as easy as that when I did it.

Originally Posted by madcockney

We have just changed at work from AVG, the commercial product, to Sophos (only available as a commercial product and not in shops). We changed due to too many false positives, slowing down the machines, and hogging our servers. (450 computers including laptops, and numerous servers.)

There is a problem in some instances in the removal of AVG. Even a later version of AVG cannot always remove an earlier version automatically and you have to remove using the AVG uninstaller or "via Add or Remove" in Control Panel. When that doesn't work you have to fire up Regedit do a search on AVG and delete all entries relating to AVGx where x relate to version numbers, The you can remove the folder containing AVG and any remaining shortcuts, etc.

When i ran AVG, i had total nightmares uninstalling it, and having to resort to Reg hacks, deleting folders etc. Horrible

I managed to uninstall it last night, but I had to download a program from the AVG website to do it. I then downloaded and installed Avast.

I downloaded it with no problems, and then installed Avast. Have yet to try it out.

AVG runs fine on my XP machine for the time being, so it can stay!