Questions tagged [avg-antivirus]
Family of anti-virus and Internet security software developed by AVG Technologies
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System becomes unusable due to hard disk 100% usage with AVG, WhatsApp, Chrome, and System at various times
I have a Lenovo IdeaPad 2017 model with Windows 10 OS and SATA hard disk, with 12 GB RAM and i5 processor.
Last many months, I have been facing 100% disk usage at various times, and it is different ...
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Win32:trojan-gen virus exe installed
I ran fake exe as i thought it was another program. After deep scanning with AVG, it located a win32:trojan-gen exe, moved it to quarantine and deleted. After scaning again, shows no malware. I am ...
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Attempting to delete executable shows error that the file is in use by that same executable
I've been doing some C++ programming in Notepad++ and, seemingly randomly, updates to the code did not modify the output, so I opened it up in Windows' file explorer to delete the executable, however ...
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AVG official download site
I want to download AVG internet security. I went to avg.com and clicked on the download button. Then my browser asks me if I want to download or run the file from bits.avcdn.net
I was expecting the ...
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Why AVG SafePrice was added to Chrome when AVG is removed since long lime?
I had a free version of AVG antivirus on my Windows 10 machine that I removed a half a year ago.
Today I opened Chrome with another profile and I mentioned that AVG SafePrice extention was added to ...
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Windows won't Restart, can't access Task Manager or launch certain Programs
I recently encountered the problem that Windows 10 hangs on restarting and shutdown. I have to turn off the machine my the power button. I also can't launch Windows task manager. I've tried a safe ...
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How to get rid of AVG Watchdog & AGVAmps services Win 7
First time poster here so please be kind!
Been having a few problems with my mouse the last couple days & while investigating the problem I happened on these two services in my task manager...
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How to permanently kill steam client bootstrapper
I have the following situation in my task manager:
I don't know what kind of app it is, but definitely not Steam client bootstrapper because I didn't install it and also can't uninstall it.
If I try ...
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are these file paths safe?
I ran an AVG scan on my macbook and it quarantined the following path(s), are they safe ?
/private/var/db/uuidtext/27/5C90F7E4A93732B3C1B576AF6DA7D5
/private/var/db/uuidtext/CE/...
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Potential Virus Undetected by AVG?
recently some files have been showing up (only 2 as far as im aware) in our families old laptop. most of the others aren't concerned about them, nor do they care, the laptop is years old and close to ...
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AVG suspecting MSBuild and VBCSCompiler as viruses, blocking me from compiling in VisualStudio
AVG is suspecting that MSBuild.exe and VBCSCompiler.exe are viruses when I try to compile a C# project in Visual Studio. This has suddenly started happening.
I have added both exe's to the ...
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AVG scans "Installer" folder on each boot. Can I disable it?
I found my PC boots pretty slow, so I used Windows Performance Toolkit to profile boot process.
What I found is "avgrsa.exe" reads every single file in "Installer" folder.
This folder is used by ...
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How can I get rid of "Trojan:Win32/Manrele.G!cl"? [duplicate]
Windows Defender pops up every 30 seconds or so and says it has removed malware called "Trojan:Win32/Manrele.G!cl". Obviously it's missing something, or this wouldn't keep happening.
I'm running ...
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AVG update january 2017 more than 1.5GB?
I installed NetLimiter to see broadband usage because I noticed that in last 5 days I spent 20Gb while I normally spend so much in whole month. After instaling it I noticed that just today c:/program ...
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how do I create an AVG bootable USB device from Linux?
Per AVG instructions on creating a bootable USB device:
Using the RAR/ZIP archive to create a USB bootable device
To create a USB flash drive variant of AVG Rescue CD, you will need to do the ...
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