Questions tagged [avg-antivirus]
Family of anti-virus and Internet security software developed by AVG Technologies
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Are these ads in AVG Antivirus normal?
My Windows XP PC started acting strange and I am right now actually in Linux running off of a USB drive. I am running Avast under Linux and it has discovered some viruses on my XP drive.
Some of the ...
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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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Force-install AVG 2011 along-side Avast
When trying to install the latest version of AVG, you are forced to uninstall Avast to proceed.
Does anyone know if there is a switch that the installer can be run with to bypass this? Something like:...
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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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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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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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where can I find a Locky Ransomware virus samples?
I need a locky ransomware virus sample to test it on VM for my project. Where can I get one working sample ?(Any microsoft word or excel files would work)
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No connection to Router(Lan,Wan) after installing AVG 2016 and/or Updating windows
Well..i know there have been questions like this one all over su but none have an actual solution.. so ill just give a cleaner explanation of what i did and how i did it..
Installed clean w7 Ultimate ...
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Disable process with sc config not allowed
I'm learning penetration testing and tried to disable the watchdog processes of AVG 2015 Antivirus Free on the target PC (Windows XP SP3 running in VirtualBox) with the commands:
C:\WINDOWS\system32&...
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How to stop a driver from running in Windows PE
My computer has unfortunately succumb to an error caused by AVG Anti-virus and upon boot of my computer it tells me that certain .sys files are either corrupted or missing.
Upon searching the ...
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Windows 7 AVG and Left 4 Dead
I have a father who won't allow video games at all. I managed to get a CD version of left 4 dead working perfectly on one laptop, but when I have another with avg, I run into an issue. It immediately ...
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Can AVG 2015's Online Shield be used Chrome (and not give NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID)?
I am using AVG 2015. If I enable Online Shield, websites that use some of Google's API's (including StackExchange sites) become unavailable and start displaying a NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID error ...
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Does AVG Outlook add-on scan drafts?
I'm trying to figure out whether or not the AVG Outlook add-on scans drafts, but I can't find any documentation about this, or any kind of log which indicates when scans are being run.
Can anyone ...
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AVG Internet Security 2014 gets stuck at 99% during scan
I run a scan every night with AVG and in the morning I notice that lately it has been getting stuck at 99%. I can't stop or pause the scan, I have to restart my computer. It doesn't seem to keep ...
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