IIRC, this is why I stopped using AVG originally. I switched to Microsoft
Security Essentials for a while (don't laugh) and had no problems at all
with it taking over the computer. I only switched back after it became a
laughing stock in the computer magazines.
I have tried other antiviruses but all have their varying degrees of
uselessness. This seems to be a common issue with AVG, users saying it slugs
their machines. There seems to be two core issues:
1. Even set to 'dynamic' or 'basic' (lowest processor hogging) it really
slugs the machine down during a scan. So I set it to run overnight and
things like this happen.
2. If the 'scan at startup if scan missed' setting was *ever* set and a scan
is missed, there seems to be no way of preventing it running that scan at
full priority until complete (that survives a restart), which is what seems
to be happening.
I have set that not to scan after a missed overnight scan now, but lots of
people say that will only take effect after a *successful* overnight scan
(despite what AVG claim), so it looks like I can write off getting any real
use out of this PC until tomorrow now. Which is bad as I had all day to get
work done today but very little time tomorrow. Drat and double drat (as some
cartoon character used to say).
Backups - don't make me laugh. Windows backup won't work with 3TB drives,
NTIbackup seems to fail 2 days out of 7 regularly. I have no idea how
complete the backup is because of that and whether it catches up on the
weekend missed bits during the week.
Modern computers are a total and absolute joke. Everyone keeps saying switch
to Linux, but I know people who have and can't get anything working for
months, so I refuse to even try that route.
Dilwyn
-----Original Message-----
From: Darren Branagh
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 3:51 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues
Wow... that is the weirdest thing I've ever heard...
I would suggest backing up everything while it's still running.. the anti
virus must have a real foothold on the system... disabling it restored the
system to a sort of default status with only one monitor.
If booting was so slow with it disabled, it's unlikely to be that at fault..
No idea where to go from here, apart from running a cleaner and maybe a
defrag.
Very, very mysterious.
Darren.
On 9 Oct 2014 15:43, "Dilwyn Jones" <[email protected]> wrote:
OK, that was a VERY painful experience:
1. My second screen (AOC USB monitor) stopped working after disabling the
anti-virus (now works after re-enabling). Absolutely no idea why.
Shouldn't
be any connection between them.
2. Bootup took ages - I could see the desktop icons redrawing pixel by
pixel, not just icon by icon.
3. Windows Live Mail must have lost its index, since it claimed there were
no emails. It seems to have rebuilt the index now and all emails present
and correct.
4. I disabled the wireless broadband for a while but the endless hard disk
activity just continued even when it and the antivirus were off.
I had a look at my backup program schedule as well. It says every saturday
and sunday daily backup fails to run or fail to complete and Monday to
Friday backups reported as OK. This goes back several weeks. As far as I
know, nothing is differently setup for weekends the antivirus and backups
are set the same for every day.
Gets more and more mysterious.
Dilwyn
-----Original Message----- From: Darren Branagh
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 2:51 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues
Ok, so it's not a swap space issue then...
Maybe try using msconfig to stop any of the AVG files running at startup,
and see does it run any better when you restart? If you do that,
disconnect
your internet access temporarily to avoid getting a virus in the interim.
Darren.
On 9 Oct 2014 14:47, "Dilwyn Jones" <[email protected]> wrote:
C:\ 243GB free of 453GB
D:\ 282GB free of 454GB
backup drive 1.44TB free of 3.TB
Dilwyn
-----Original Message----- From: Darren Branagh
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 2:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues
Svchost.exe is the Windows service host, you need this :)
Looks like it's the AVG antivirus acting up. How much free space do you
have on the drives?
On 9 Oct 2014 14:30, "Dilwyn Jones" <[email protected]> wrote:
The ones generating most entries are:
AVGrsa.exe - presume a scan must be running even if I can't find or stop
it (scan settings are set to 'basic' for minimal interference when
machine
is busy)
BackupNowEZ - my backup program which I have to use as the external
drive
is over 2TB so M$ backup won't work, in theory (hah!) this is disabled
temporarily - I think! no hard disk activity even though the process is
generating a lot of entries.
svchost.exe (not sure what this is)
monitor.exe (less than the other three)
There are lots more processes listed, but very few entries compared to
these.
Looks like it's the anti-virus but what is it up to since it's on
minimum
settings and shouldn't be running at this time of day anyway (it's
normally
set to run overnight and not to run at startup if a scan has been
missed)
Dilwyn
-----Original Message----- From: Marcel Kilgus
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 1:54 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] PC issues
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
No, SATA drive, with Windows in C: drive part of the hard disk, and
everything else in D:
Okay, one more. Download and run the "Process monitor" tool from MS
and check if any application is generating lots of entries. This might
be a somewhat painful process on a thrashing machine, though.
Marcel
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