Questions tagged [avg-antivirus]
Family of anti-virus and Internet security software developed by AVG Technologies
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What is JavaScript Obfuscation and why is it a threat?
AVG was recently telling me that a webpage was blocked because of JavaScript Obfuscation.
Why was the webpage blocked and what exactly does that mean?
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Clean up infected computer from viruses [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What to do if my computer is infected by a virus or a malware?
I have a computer which had AVG Free installed from day one.
After several months of operation, it starts ...
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Does FileZilla contain a virus?
I downloaded FileZilla from SourceForge on February 16, install was OK, but recently my antivirus said that the file contains a virus (MalSign.Generic.550). Previously there was no notification about ...
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Microsoft Defender vs AVG 9.0
From various forums it appears that AVG 9.0 disables Microsoft Defender. Is there any way to stop that behavior?
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how to extract a virus from a Thunderbird inbox file?
I have a virus scan running and it's found a virus in my Thunderbird inbox file. Of course, I don't want to delete the inbox file, and the anti-virus (AVG) can't seem to pull it out. There are lots of ...
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IE 9 home page is hijacked by avg
I definitely know how to change the home page in Internet Explorer (Tools -> Options -> General). The problem is, no matter what I put there, it never changes. Stop/restart Internet Explorer and ...
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How can I install AVG Anti Virus on a computer without internet connection?
I downloaded AVG Anti Virus on one computer and tried to copy it to a stand alone computer but it says that I need to connect to the internet.
Is there a way to bypass the proxy and the need of ...
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My BrowserHelperObject is detected by avg as a malware, what is going wrong
I'm building a BrowserHelperObject in C++ for Internet Explorer 8. It is a friendly add-on that gives you functionality in a sidebar.
The thing is that when you download the add-on executable from ...
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What does an AVG "False alarm" message mean?
My question is about the category of AVG alerts which contain the text "False alarm", such as the one that appears in this old forum thread: http://forums.avg.com/us-en/avg-forums?sec=thread&act=...
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Does AVG security toolbar do anything useful actually? [closed]
Does AVG security toolbar do anything useful actually? It seems to me that all its functionality is already integrated into Linkscanner.
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AVG on WIndows7 - high CPU and slowdown
I have just installed Windows7 and put the latest version of AVG8.5 (free) on there, which claims to be compatible. However, it seems to slow the machine right down.
I have not installed the Link ...
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How do I temporarily turn off AVG Antivirus?
I run AVG Antivirus (version 8.5, I believe). Now I want to install "Dragon Naturally Speaking", a speech recognition software. During installation I'm told that I need to temporarily disable my ...
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Sending email with Windows 8 Mail (Modern UI) being blocked by AVG Firewall
I've setup my Outlook.com email address in Windows 8 Mail (Modern UI) but is unable to send and receive emails when my AVG Internet Security 2012 Business Edition's Firewall is enable.
When I ...
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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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After removing AVG 2015 Windows Defender will not start
System: Windows Pro 8.1
After removal of AVG 2015, Windows Defender fails to start.
When attempting to start Windows Defender via the UI
It fails to start with error 0x8007139f
When attempting to ...
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