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May 22nd, 2008
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| vincit qui se vincit  Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Upper Michigan
Posts: 451
|  AVG 8.0 Freezes Hi all. Wondering how many of you have upgraded to AVG Free Edition 8.0 and if you've had any problems. I've installed it on a desktop and a laptop with the same results: system freezes after a period of time (usually 30-60 minutes - sometimes less) and computer must be shut down by means of the power switch. After complete removal and installation of AVG Free 7.5 both systems were fine. Since version 7.5's days are numbered, I'll have to find a replacement with a scheduler for those owners who forget to run scans for weeks and months at at time. Carl  Core 2 Duo E6750 Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Abit IP35 Pro 2x1GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 800 EVGA 8800GT 500GB Seagate Barracuda 32MB Cache Coolermaster RC-690 OCZ StealthXStream 600 watt Acer AL2216W 22" monitor Windows XP Pro SP2 |
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May 22nd, 2008
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| Colonel Calamity  | Re: AVG 8.0 Freezes one alternative that is rated higher than AVG is called Avira. The down side is that it does not scan POP email coming in like AVG does. I myself have not had this problem on any of my machines.  Thanks HL and Corsair! My opinions are my own and not representative of this site or its members.  Last edited by screwballl; May 22nd, 2008 at 05:54. |
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May 22nd, 2008
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| Overclocker In Training  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 283
| Re: AVG 8.0 Freezes Same here; I've been running version 8.0 for a little while now and have not encountered any freezing/lockup issues as of yet. Current Machine: Intel E2220 Gigabyte P35-DS3L AC Freezer 7 Pro 2GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2-800 EVGA 8800GT 512MB X-Fi Extreme Gamer Seagate 250GB SATA WD Raptor 74GB SATA Samsung S203B DVD+R Silverstone SF60 Modular 600w Antec Nine Hundred Acer 2216Wbd 22" LCD |
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May 22nd, 2008
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| Helper Person In General  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Posts: 1,373
| Re: AVG 8.0 Freezes Installed it on a few Vista Ultimate systems and a few Windows XP Pro systems and not problems at all. Ron  |
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May 22nd, 2008
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| The Pizza Killer  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: where do you friggin live??
Posts: 1,751
| Re: AVG 8.0 Freezes No problems here. P5K-E wifi/ E8400 @ 4.0 / Scythe Ninja Copper / 2GB Hyper-X DDR2-800 / 7800GT / Antec 1200 / Corsair HX-520 P5W DH Deluxe wifi/ E7200 @ 4.0 / 2GB Ballistix DDR2-800 / 7600GT (passive) / P180B / Seasonic SS-550HT / Zalman Reserator V2 Optiplex 755 / E2180 / 4GB DDR2 / 160GB HD / ATI HD 2400 Dual-ISP Network aim: drewandnotu | Skype: drew-and-not-u |
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May 22nd, 2008
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| With a pinch of insane!  Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: England, 127.0.0.1
Posts: 621
| Re: AVG 8.0 Freezes Works fine for me, but it ALWAYS trys to update before the internets connected making me have to do it manually. Little annoying but only a minor gripe   |
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May 22nd, 2008
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| vincit qui se vincit Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Upper Michigan
Posts: 451
| Re: AVG 8.0 Freezes I have read on the internet where others have had the same problem, but this does not seem to be wide-spread. I wonder if it could possibly be a compatibility problem due to another security product. (Also running Spybot, Windows Defender, and ThreatFire.) One thing I did notice was that during installation I received a warning that another antivirus program was running, even though my earlier version of AVG had already been uninstalled. Carl Core 2 Duo E6750 Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Abit IP35 Pro 2x1GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 800 EVGA 8800GT 500GB Seagate Barracuda 32MB Cache Coolermaster RC-690 OCZ StealthXStream 600 watt Acer AL2216W 22" monitor Windows XP Pro SP2 |
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May 22nd, 2008
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| Go Ahead Punk.  Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: New Hampshire
Posts: 208
| Re: AVG 8.0 Freezes Ever since i installed 8.0 my firefox crashes from time to time . I reinstalled 7.5 and the problem stopped . Went back to 8.0 and it crashed again not very often though. Thermaltake Armor Plus Asus Maximus Formula X38 Intel Q6600 G0 @ 3.2 w/ Arctic Silver 5 Cooler master Gemin II w/ 2 Arctic Cooling 120mm 4x1gig Crucial Ballistix @ 800 2x Seagate Barracuda 250g RAID 0 EVGA 8800GTS (g92) Silverstone Decathlon 850w Samsung DVD+R DVD burner w/ Lightscribe Vista Home Premium 32bit Samsung 22" widescreen Logitch G5 mouse and Wave Keyboard |
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May 26th, 2008
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| vincit qui se vincit Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Upper Michigan
Posts: 451
| Re: AVG 8.0 Freezes Installed Avira AntiVir on three machines and so far it has performed flawlessly. The ads are a bit of a pain, but a small price to pay for a free application. Carl Core 2 Duo E6750 Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Abit IP35 Pro 2x1GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 800 EVGA 8800GT 500GB Seagate Barracuda 32MB Cache Coolermaster RC-690 OCZ StealthXStream 600 watt Acer AL2216W 22" monitor Windows XP Pro SP2 |
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