Comments on: Internet Slow to Crawl and Frequently Cannot Connect or Hang After Installing AVG 8.0

By: Setup and Install AVG 8 Without Web/Search/Surf Shield, Firewall, Toolbar and Link/Email Scanner Feature (And Silent Switch) » My Digital Life

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:53:29 +0000

[...] new AVG 8 features of LinkScanner and Web Shield is infamous for slowing down the Internet browsing and surfing speed. In some worst case, Link Scanner’s Search-Shield and Active Surf-Shield is causing total [...]

By: How to Disable AVG Search-Shield and Active Surf-Shield (LinkScanner) » My Digital Life

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:49:36 +0000

[...] the Search-Shield and Active Surf-Shield Link Scanner technologies are known to cause slow web pages loading or cannot cannot problem. Beside, Search-Shield and Surf-Shield may block certain websites, especially those related to [...]

By: yes, massa

yes, massa — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:27:14 +0000

Here’s a test for you guys:

Install AVG 8 Antivirus. After installation, when AVG is loaded and active, fire up the good ol’ taskmgr. Go to processes tab–>view–>select columns..–>tick I/O reads.

Now check out lsass.exe -process’ I/O reads statistics. Bananas. Like 36 reads a second or something.

By: yes, massa

yes, massa — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:22:53 +0000

Yeah, i tried AVG 8 Antivirus with that free license i got here.

But i stopped using it. Why?

Well, because it made lsass.exe go crazy, the disk reads for that process went through the roof.

After disabling AVG 8 service, the aforementioned process went back to behaving normally.

Needless to say, i uninstalled AVG 8 right away. I tried disabling components (like resident shield, for example) but it still affected the lsass.exe process. AVG 8 woulda probably broken my hard disk with all those disk reads it caused lsass.exe to make

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:14:28 +0000

After upgrading to AVG 8, my browser history stopped recording sites Ive been to. Using IE7 and Vista.

Anyone else come across this?

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:33:24 +0000

It’s a shame Grisoft is dropping support for 7.5 as of May 31 it appears. A Huge step backwards… time to switch to a different free virus software I guess! 8.0 slows my CeleronD Xp laptop to unusable levels!

By: DonLogan

DonLogan — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:06:34 +0000

It is always a compromise between usability and security. I think they’ve gone to far with this one, but I am using a free version of AVG 8 anyway so thanks for the tip.

By: Snuffy

Snuffy — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:34:41 +0000

The easy way. uninstall AVG 8 and reinstall AVG 7.5 – The Snuffy way. I’m tired of working all the damn time trying to correct something that should never have been released .. my ISP is slow enough with out AVG 8 killing it..

By: dick

dick — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:34:31 +0000

so, developed a technology which requires people to turn it off, nice