Avg probs

[mike ring]

ISTM that AVG7 is causing problems; only very recently, when I go online
there's solid traffic even if I'mm not aware of anything happening,
resources (system and user) vanish, and if I'm quick I can escape by
shutting down AVG (leaving AVGCC running seems ok, but I'm not sure what
protection that leaves me.)

So, any suggestions about other antivirus, in case it is AVG, I've used it
for so long I'm not up to speed on the others?

mike

 

[MLC]

_mike ring_, mercoledì 05/gen/2005:

ISTM that AVG7 is causing problems; only very recently, when I go online
there's solid traffic even if I'mm not aware of anything happening,
resources (system and user) vanish, and if I'm quick I can escape by
shutting down AVG (leaving AVGCC running seems ok, but I'm not sure what
protection that leaves me.)

So, any suggestions about other antivirus, in case it is AVG, I've used it
for so long I'm not up to speed on the others?

I'm using Avast! and wouldn't go back to AVG.

 

[Kerodo]

_mike ring_, mercoledì 05/gen/2005:


I'm using Avast! and wouldn't go back to AVG.

I've been a long time fan of Avast until just recently. Now with the
4.5 series I'm seeing error messages on startup in my Event Viewer on
W2k and also random error messages at shutdown relating to Avast. It's
always been a great product until 4.5 for me. I think they're getting
to complicated now with their network scanning and so on. I just
switched to AVG 7 and so far it seems good, although a little less
feature rich. We'll see though...

 

[bassbag]

ISTM that AVG7 is causing problems; only very recently, when I go online
there's solid traffic even if I'mm not aware of anything happening,
resources (system and user) vanish, and if I'm quick I can escape by
shutting down AVG (leaving AVGCC running seems ok, but I'm not sure what
protection that leaves me.)

So, any suggestions about other antivirus, in case it is AVG, I've used it
for so long I'm not up to speed on the others?

mike

I found avg7 very resource hungry , compared to 6 on my older w98
machine.It sometimes froze the machine (due to the cpu hogging i
suspect).Other free laternatives (with resident protection)would be
antivir
http://www.free-av.com/
or avast
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

Antivir still hasnt any incremental updates,and still downloads the whole
database everytime.No problem if your on broadband ,moreso if your on
dialup.
me

 

[JP Loken]

På 5 Jan 2005 21:01:53 GMT, skrev mike ring

ISTM that AVG7 is causing problems; only very recently, when I go online
there's solid traffic even if I'mm not aware of anything happening,
resources (system and user) vanish, and if I'm quick I can escape by
shutting down AVG (leaving AVGCC running seems ok, but I'm not sure what
protection that leaves me.)

So, any suggestions about other antivirus, in case it is AVG, I've used
it
for so long I'm not up to speed on the others?

mike

I'm using AntiVir PE on my home computer.
If you need some proxy-functionality, I'll suggest Avast!, but only if
your computer is at least a newer Pentium II with memory 128MB or better.

By the way, have you checked if your computer is infected? (Tried Ad-Aware
or Spybot Search & Destroy?)

 

[Octavian]

I found avg7 very resource hungry , compared to 6 on my older w98
machine.It sometimes froze the machine (due to the cpu hogging i
suspect).

Strange. AVG is using 0% CPU and 22 MB memory (Win XP Home).

 

[mike ring]

ISTM that AVG7 is causing problems; only very recently, when I go
online there's solid traffic even if I'mm not aware of anything
happening, resources (system and user) vanish, and if I'm quick I can
escape by shutting down AVG (leaving AVGCC running seems ok, but I'm
not sure what protection that leaves me.)

So, any suggestions about other antivirus, in case it is AVG, I've
used it for so long I'm not up to speed on the others?

mike

Thanks everybody:

I'll try avast first, in view of the comments about AV personal database;
however I see the whole .vdf file is 1.9 meg, so that's acceptable if the
prog is good.

Although I did like AVG's forced short sharp downloads to save me
remembering.

mike

 

[bassbag]

Strange. AVG is using 0% CPU and 22 MB memory (Win XP Home).

Yes , it seems to work ok on most XP machines with a decent spec.However
older systems such as 98 with lower spec seems to be a different
matter.There seem to be many similar experiences to avg7 such as mine, at
the avg forums.I dont know whther the original poster is using an older
system or low spec machine.
me

 

[mike ring]

I'm using AntiVir PE on my home computer.
If you need some proxy-functionality, I'll suggest Avast!, but only if
your computer is at least a newer Pentium II with memory 128MB or
better.

By the way, have you checked if your computer is infected? (Tried
Ad-Aware or Spybot Search & Destroy?)

Good point; but there was nothing significant

mike

 

[MLC]

_Octavian_, mercoledì 05/gen/2005:

Strange. AVG is using 0% CPU and 22 MB memory (Win XP Home).

I'm surprised it takes so much memory, because I've always read that Avast!
is a bit bloated and resourses hog in comparison with AVG. Instead now
Avast! is taking 0% CPU and 11 MB memory here (Win XP Home).

 

[EA]

_Octavian_, mercoledì 05/gen/2005:


I'm surprised it takes so much memory, because I've always read
that Avast! is a bit bloated and resourses hog in comparison with
AVG. Instead now Avast! is taking 0% CPU and 11 MB memory here
(Win XP Home).

For me, AVG uses about 10mb memory and 0% CPU (XP pro).... Perhaps
it depends on one's settings. I have auto update and email scan
disabled but, on the other hand, I have it scan all files....

E.

 

[JP Loken]

På Wed, 5 Jan 2005 22:51:10 -0000, skrev bassbag

Yes , it seems to work ok on most XP machines with a decent spec.However
older systems such as 98 with lower spec seems to be a different
matter.There seem to be many similar experiences to avg7 such as mine, at
the avg forums.I dont know whther the original poster is using an older
system or low spec machine.
me

I've installed AVG 7 over AVG 6 on a PII/CPU266MHz/96MB memory; OS WinME.
It's running smoothly.

Tried Avast! last summer, but the computer became too sluggish.
(Pity, because Avast! is very nice and rich in features.)

 

[Mel]

ISTM that AVG7 is causing problems; only very recently, when I go online
there's solid traffic even if I'mm not aware of anything happening,
resources (system and user) vanish, and if I'm quick I can escape by
shutting down AVG (leaving AVGCC running seems ok, but I'm not sure what
protection that leaves me.)

So, any suggestions about other antivirus, in case it is AVG, I've used it
for so long I'm not up to speed on the others?

mike

I've started having problems with AVG 7 (on 98SE) just recently.
In fact I had to uninstall it because It was causing crashes when
running certain programs (an AVG7 VXD error).
It initially worked fine, not sure if my problem was caused by one
of the updates or something I've installed recently.
My bro. tells me it works without an issue on his XP home system.

You may still be able to get a free one year licence of etrust
courtesy of Microsoft - requires registration. (Don't bother to
install the firewall though, it's just zonealarm free I think)

http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft

By the time it expires hopefully AVG will be fixed.(if they are still
supporting 98 that is).

 

[Andy]

For me, AVG uses about 10mb memory and 0% CPU (XP pro).... Perhaps
it depends on one's settings.

32-38 Mb here (2K). That's far too much.
17-18 Mb with e-mail scanner switched off.
Still too much.
A memory hog.

Andy

 

[Terry Russell]

32-38 Mb here (2K). That's far too much.
17-18 Mb with e-mail scanner switched off.
Still too much.
A memory hog.

mum, the hogs are doing backstroke in the feeding trough again

see MEM_RESERVE and MEM_COMMIT

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-s/memory/base/
memory_protection.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/memory/base
/virtualalloc.asp

memory allocated isn't necessarily used, if it is used and you run out
of RAM for an application it may be shifted to temporarily cause
in this case 2cents worth of disk to be used

until the disk is nearly full thats 2c worth paid for but
unused, so whats being wasted by using it?
if indeed it is really used
memory use is dynamic , distilling it down to one number
is almost always going to be misleading

At the moment I see 2meg unused RAM, 100meg swapfile used
and 14,900 meg available for swap
avg is using 41 meg of which 5 meg is in RAM.and is commited
a sizeable chunk of that is system DLLs
it averages 0.05% cpu use on a system that has the idle process
consuming 80% of cpu time

cpu use is usually the only resource likely to be approaching full use
even that means little if something is IDLE_PRIORITY_CLASS
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/bas
e/setpriorityclass.asp

avg is using 0.05% of something usually not being used
1% of something that is virtual and 0.25% of something that is
is 99% empty, the hogs are asking for a diving platform

 

[Kerodo]

32-38 Mb here (2K). That's far too much.
17-18 Mb with e-mail scanner switched off.
Still too much.
A memory hog.

Andy

17 megs here on 2K, and that includes both services... AVG7 latest..

 

[bassbag]

På Wed, 5 Jan 2005 22:51:10 -0000, skrev bassbag



I've installed AVG 7 over AVG 6 on a PII/CPU266MHz/96MB memory; OS WinME.
It's running smoothly.

Tried Avast! last summer, but the computer became too sluggish.
(Pity, because Avast! is very nice and rich in features.)

Im glad its working for.I found i had the opposite effect.Avast works
great whereas avg7 slowed my down and also caused freezes. (thats on a p3
733 98).Obviously it agrees with some systems and not others.
me

 

[mike ring]

Im glad its working for.I found i had the opposite effect.Avast works
great whereas avg7 slowed my down and also caused freezes. (thats on a
p3 733 98).Obviously it agrees with some systems and not others.
me

I tried Avast, and didn't like it a bit; I don't like a voice talking to me
when a ding would do.

I had to use enditall to close it for a virus check as it wouldn't close
down, so I reinstalled AVG after a total clearout in the hope that it was
AVG itself that had become corrupt, now I'll see if the symptoms come back.

If they do I'll have to try AVpers, (which I must admit I liked the look
of) and have to deal with the updating issue

mike

 

[bassbag]

I tried Avast, and didn't like it a bit; I don't like a voice talking to me
when a ding would do.

I had to use enditall to close it for a virus check as it wouldn't close
down, so I reinstalled AVG after a total clearout in the hope that it was
AVG itself that had become corrupt, now I'll see if the symptoms come back.

If they do I'll have to try AVpers, (which I must admit I liked the look
of) and have to deal with the updating issue

mike

The talking is easy to disable in avast and can be disabled in contol
panel>sounds .If a virus was found , the wav file did cause freeze
problems on older systems when it loaded and was recommended (per the
forums) to disable.However on my system at least it was much,much lighter
on resources than the new avg7 free.
me

 

[mike ring]

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The talking is easy to disable in avast and can be disabled in contol
panel>sounds .If a virus was found , the wav file did cause freeze
problems on older systems when it loaded and was recommended (per the
forums) to disable.However on my system at least it was much,much
lighter on resources than the new avg7 free.
me

I'll keep it in mimd!
Idon't find AVG a resource hog, I went from 78 88 78 without Avg running to
76 83 76 with it.

I know you may be talking about memory use, but that's never been an issue
with me, so much so I don'r even know how to check it, but W98 resources is
always a burning topic

mike