Disabling the AVG Virus Checking?

[W. eWatson]

I just installed AVG yesterday, and do not see a way to prevent it from
virus checking any of the items on its list.

I see various icons, Anti-virus, License, Anti-spyware, etc., as Active.
Help isn't helping. How do I enable/disable them?

It seems as though when one installs a virus checker, they just assume you
want it turned on all the time. Yikes!
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W. eWatson

(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet

Web Page: <www.speckledwithstars.net/>

 

[Eric]

I just installed AVG yesterday, and do not see a way to prevent it from
virus checking any of the items on its list.

I see various icons, Anti-virus, License, Anti-spyware, etc., as Active.
Help isn't helping. How do I enable/disable them?

It seems as though when one installs a virus checker, they just assume you
want it turned on all the time. Yikes!
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                                W. eWatson

              (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std.time)
               Obz Site:  39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32"W, 2700 feet

                     Web Page: <www.speckledwithstars.net/>

Open the program by right-clicking on its icon in the Notification
Area. Look under Tools - Advanced Settings. You can set the settings
for the various components in there.

Eric,
PC Buyer Beware!
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/

 

[W. eWatson]

Open the program by right-clicking on its icon in the Notification
Area. Look under Tools - Advanced Settings. You can set the settings
for the various components in there.

Eric,
PC Buyer Beware!
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/

Thanks. It looks like I have to uncheck every box for each scan and the
schedule. I moved the slider to as low as it wil go. If I detect it scanning
anything on my PC, I'll uninstall it.

Great. I turned off a number actions, but I see on the top level page,
Anti-virus, Anti-spyware, e-mail scan, Resident Sheild are still active.

Another thing I'm not liking is that it has put a toolbar aross the top of
my browser (FF) just below the FF entries. I want this s/w to be virtually
silent until I want to use it.
--
W. eWatson

(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet

Web Page: <www.speckledwithstars.net/>

 

[Tim Meddick]

Hi Mr Watson,
I have this. Why would you want to disable
Anti-Spyware/Anti-Virus anyway? However, click on the AVG icon in the area
near the taskbar clock to open the user interface. Double-click on any of
the icons (Anti-Spyware, Resident Shield, etc). Some of these components
you will not be able to disable such as Anti-Spyware, but others you can
these include: Resident Shield; Email Scanner; Link Scanner; Automatic
Update Manager. If you turn off "Resident Shield" and do not perform any
scans, effectively the Anti-Spyware function and Anti-Virus functions are
turned off as well. It's only through the Resident monitoring portion of
the program that these other functions can possibly be enabled. The Link
Scanner and the Email Scanner are separate but can also be turned off by
double-clicking on their icons and unchecking them. I advise you not to do
this as AVG is reasonably good at what it does and in conjunction with
Spybot (with the tea-timer program) is quite the most effective protection
for your system that you'll get for free!
Once again, if you turn off Resident Shield and don't perform a scan
it's just about turned off!

 

[W. eWatson]

Hi Mr Watson,
I have this. Why would you want to disable
Anti-Spyware/Anti-Virus anyway? However, click on the AVG icon in the area
near the taskbar clock to open the user interface. Double-click on any of
the icons (Anti-Spyware, Resident Shield, etc). Some of these components
you will not be able to disable such as Anti-Spyware, but others you can
these include: Resident Shield; Email Scanner; Link Scanner; Automatic
Update Manager. If you turn off "Resident Shield" and do not perform any
scans, effectively the Anti-Spyware function and Anti-Virus functions are
turned off as well. It's only through the Resident monitoring portion of
the program that these other functions can possibly be enabled. The Link
Scanner and the Email Scanner are separate but can also be turned off by
double-clicking on their icons and unchecking them. I advise you not to do
this as AVG is reasonably good at what it does and in conjunction with
Spybot (with the tea-timer program) is quite the most effective protection
for your system that you'll get for free!
Once again, if you turn off Resident Shield and don't perform a scan
it's just about turned off!

Thanks for the info. Well, you have an interesting question to start with.

First, I do not believe I need the product, since my ISP appears to have
provided just about anything I need. Maybe not the check on newly mounted
devices. That I have covered in other ways.

Second, I ran into a problem with Norton over zealously guarding a
commercial program, ccdsoft.exe, and disturbing the registry in doing so. I
could not longer execute it. ccdsoft's mfg mentioned the culprit could very
well be an anti-virus program. Two solutions were given. Fix the registry or
remove the ccdsoft product, and re-install it. Another program, Acrobat 8,
at almost around the same time, started giving me a problem writing to the
PDF Printer. I think the two are unrelated, but noted on the Adobe site the
same fix. I removed Norton and all traces of it, registry included. I
re-installed ccdsoft, and found another solution to Acrobat 8. All is well.
However, I thought maybe thought to have an anti-virus program around
anyway, just in case I wanted to use a feature or two. That's how I got to
AVG. I want to dictate to it what I want it to do, and not the other way
around. I'm going to pull it. It's just too much of a hassle. I'll keep the
download install. Maybe I'll really need it some time.

--
W. eWatson

(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet

Web Page: <www.speckledwithstars.net/>

 

[Tim Meddick]

Mr Watson,
Thankyou for clarifying that. It seems that you really
didn't need it in the first place as you say. But in AVG's defence - it is
a good program and fills a much-needed vacuum in the Antivirus-Software
market - a free Antivirus app that is comparable to the larger paid-for AV
suites. I admit that, for one, this user would be stumped without it as I
am on the thin end of the poverty-line. (I used version 6 on a Win98 IBM
machine for years with no viral attacks, I believe this was due to AVG I
use it on my current XP system in conjunction with Win Defender and SpyBot)

 

[W. eWatson]

Mr Watson,
Thankyou for clarifying that. It seems that you really
didn't need it in the first place as you say. But in AVG's defence - it is
a good program and fills a much-needed vacuum in the Antivirus-Software
market - a free Antivirus app that is comparable to the larger paid-for AV
suites. I admit that, for one, this user would be stumped without it as I
am on the thin end of the poverty-line. (I used version 6 on a Win98 IBM
machine for years with no viral attacks, I believe this was due to AVG I
use it on my current XP system in conjunction with Win Defender and SpyBot)

It has certainly gotten praise from a lot of people.

--
W. eWatson

(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet

Web Page: <www.speckledwithstars.net/>

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

I would not recommend AVG Free. If you need a free AV app, go with AntiVir
or Avast IMHO.

 

[Alister]

Thanks. It looks like I have to uncheck every box for each scan and the
schedule. I moved the slider to as low as it wil go. If I detect it
scanning anything on my PC, I'll uninstall it.

Great. I turned off a number actions, but I see on the top level page,
Anti-virus, Anti-spyware, e-mail scan, Resident Sheild are still active.

Another thing I'm not liking is that it has put a toolbar aross the top of
my browser (FF) just below the FF entries. I want this s/w to be virtually
silent until I want to use it.
--

The browser toolbar is an optional part of the installation process, so if
it's installed, it's because you didn't tell it not to.

I agree, that you don't want your antivirus to be intrusive, and reading
your other threads I can see you have had a bad experience at the hands of
Norton, but I think you misunderstand the purpose of antivirus software. If
you install it and then turn off all the protection, you might as well have
not bothered installing it.
In order for it to work effectively, antivirus software needs to be able to
update every day, and scan your machine every day, and you would be well
advised to let the Resident Shield remain active as well. Just because
Norton had an unfortunate effect on your ccdsoft software, don't assume that
all other antivirus software will.
In my personal experience, AVG has never caused a conflict with any software
I have installed.

Alister