If you are using AVG 8.0, you have a lot of controls to work with. I'll
address your points numerically for clarity.
1. AVG's anti-virus updates should not require a reboot, however,
program updates will. This is standard practice for most programs
that I know of.
2. In order to not have the computer bogged down initially, you can
uncheck "Run on computer startup if task has been missed", in the
"Edit scan schedule" page. You can also set the scan speed for
each type of scan, but remember that there are three distinct
places you can do this depending upon which scan you want to control:
* Scan whole computer - for manual scans
* Scan specific files and folders - manual scans
* Edit scan schedule - Make sure that you are setting this one
to the slowest rate, if you want to be able to use a slower
computer while it's scanning. I've got mine set to the
fastest scan speed and scheduled to happen when I am more
than likely to not be doing a lot of web stuff, although it
doesn't impact the 2GB memory too much. How much memory are
you running?
3. If you want it to scan automatically while you're off of the
computer, you might have to leave it set to run and not standby.
Or you could take Tony's suggestion and always do a manual scan
when you are done with the computer for the day.
The only ding I saw with AVG 8.0 is that it seems to take longer to scan
the computer than 7.x, but then again, it looks like it is covering a
lot more types of definitions and not just anti-virus's. After upgrading
to 8.0, it found a few things that had been missed by my anti spyware.
I'm staying with it.
Good luck,
Richard P.
Robert wrote:
Partly because of advice I had read on this listserv, I let my Norton
Anti-virus suite of programs lapse and installed the free AVG
anti-virus program a month or so ago. I am quite dissatisfied with it
because of the following reasons:
1. The virus update comes (about) daily, which when installed
requires a reboot of the computer. This takes about 6 minutes, while
I wait impatiently. It reminds me of Windows ME which required
frequent reboots, but at least they were not so long.
2. Once the computer reboots, AVG starts to scan for viruses. This
takes about 4 hours and slows down the computer almost to a standstill
because the boot drive is used to 100% capacity. This drive is SATA,
7200 RPM, with 8 MB cache. I have recently reset the virus scan
preference to "slow" but the computer is still slowed down a
significant amount.
3. Even if there is no virus update, the virus scan starts as soon as
I start using the computer in the morning. This is because the
scheduler, set for scanning at 1:00 AM, does not work until I awake
the computer in the morning. My computer is set not to hibernate,
just to stand by.
I had none of these problems with Norton. Is there anything that will
improve the situation with AVG? If not, does anyone have experience
with Kaspersky?
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