Posted: 7/30/2012 7:45:57 PM EDT
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Hey guys I wonder if I am having a coincidence or what. I watched a video the other night about a guy that ran a vm and called one of the fix it companies and they basically tried to trick him into buying there service.
My avg subscription is running out and lately now it seems that I am having more issues than before. I avg is popping up and finding more malware. I have been having all sorts of other issues. My clipboard was disabled the other night. I have right now about 5 versions of iexplore.exe that wont close no matter what I do They reappear if i end task. IE is not open. Do you think avg is running scare tactics to get people to buy? |
| In my opinion, AVG jumped the shark on offering quality free service a few years ago. I've switched to a combo of Avast and Malwarebytes, and haven't had any problems. The safe mode cleaner that Malwarebytes runs is top notch, and the preboot scan that Avast can do knocks out anything that is left over. |
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In my opinion, AVG jumped the shark on offering quality free service a few years ago. I've switched to a combo of Avast and Malwarebytes, and haven't had any problems. The safe mode cleaner that Malwarebytes runs is top notch, and the preboot scan that Avast can do knocks out anything that is left over. I started having problems with Avast, so I dumped it and started using MSE. So far it has been working great. MSE, Malwarebytes and Spybot S&D work so well that I never (knock on wood) have any problems. Vulcan94 |
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Quoted: Quoted: In my opinion, AVG jumped the shark on offering quality free service a few years ago. I've switched to a combo of Avast and Malwarebytes, and haven't had any problems. The safe mode cleaner that Malwarebytes runs is top notch, and the preboot scan that Avast can do knocks out anything that is left over. I started having problems with Avast, so I dumped it and started using MSE. So far it has been working great. MSE, Malwarebytes and Spybot S&D work so well that I never (knock on wood) have any problems. Vulcan94 Out of curiosity, what type of problems? I keep it on flash drive and put it on all my customers computers just because it's free, quick, and auto-updating. I've (almost) never had malicious threats that running a deep Avast and Malwarebytes scan wouldn't fix, there's always the exception, but those are rare. |
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In my opinion, AVG jumped the shark on offering quality free service a few years ago. I've switched to a combo of Avast and Malwarebytes, and haven't had any problems. The safe mode cleaner that Malwarebytes runs is top notch, and the preboot scan that Avast can do knocks out anything that is left over. I started having problems with Avast, so I dumped it and started using MSE. So far it has been working great. MSE, Malwarebytes and Spybot S&D work so well that I never (knock on wood) have any problems. Vulcan94 Out of curiosity, what type of problems? I keep it on flash drive and put it on all my customers computers just because it's free, quick, and auto-updating. I've (almost) never had malicious threats that running a deep Avast and Malwarebytes scan wouldn't fix, there's always the exception, but those are rare. As near as I remember it ended up always being disabled. I uninstalled and reinstalled it several times to no avail. It really bugged me at the time because I had used Avast for forever and really liked it. I finally had to install MSE and when I ran it in safe mode it did find a virus. I'm guessing that's what caused the problem with Avast, but I decided to give MSE a try and so far it has worked really well. Vulcan94 |