It took around 50 minutes to scan the almost full C drive, a 256GB SSD in a computer with 8GB RAM and 3.4GHz Phenom AMD Quad core processor. Web browsing is a breeze, it seems that AVGs script blocker is very good indeed.Įven though it came back clean in the first scan, I decided to do a full scan on the C drive (not very intuitive to get to that option). But now, even though I still get some adds, I don’t get any of those threatening pop-ups and the machine is usable again. Now, before installing and running AVG, I would get a lot of annoying pop-ups and adds while browsing. I was able to complete the first scan, it showed no errors. So, I restarted in regular mode, and incredibly everything started to run fine, even the previous antivirus was able to enable its service (which I of course disabled permanently later on). I had to restart the machine and went onto safe mode where AVG kept crashing. It started its first scan and got stuck at “checking browser” for over a half an hour (see picture). After downloading and installing the AVG Ultimate software, which I did in a normal session not in Safe Mode (I know), I run it for the first time. So, all signs of some pest infestation were there. In addition, the machine became extremely slow, especially while browsing. I was not able to determine what it was, but I knew something was going on, strange processes in the Task Manager would show up, my %LocalAppData% directory would show weird folders, the browser would display annoying adds all over the place, and up to the point that messages would show up to “click here” because your machine was infected. So, very recently, it must have in once such occasion that I (or a family member) introduced some sort of malware into the computer. A few months ago, the default antivirus for this computer starting misbehaving, its service would get disabled frequently. Yes it is an old OS, and its end of life is coming soon, but I have this desktop with plenty of software and configured to the way my family feels comfortable each with their own profile.

But now that I installed AVG and run it for a couple of days, I am extremely happy with its detection capabilities and performance, as well as the set of features that it comes with (which by the way, I am not sure I am going to end up using them all). I had adopted Windows Security software as the default on all my Windows machines, because of the poor experience I had with other Antivirus software, especially around performance and overall experience (some would monopolize the CPU to the point of freezing it). I also wanted to try something different than the default Windows Security software on another Windows10 household laptop. I decided to give AVG a try mainly because I was having some issues with the old Windows Security Essentials software on my Windows 7 (yes Windows 7) desktop.

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