AVG Must Die
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The blue screen of death. Something every Windows user hates seeing. Unfortunately, I am not immune to this kind of error. Yesterday morning, Windows 7 started acting rather funky. It began to lag and freeze. I immediately thought it was my Nvidia GeForce graphics card. I went to the Nvidia website, and it turns out they released a driver specifically for Windows 7 for my card last week. I downloaded the driver and restarted my computer. I log in and I am struck with a BSOD.
I take a snapshot of the error with my iPhone, and send the shot over to geeks.pirillo.com. Minutes later, people are telling me that it was AVG that caused the error. And they were right.
I go to unistall AVG completely from my system, and before I can press restart, I get another BSOD. Nothing like going out with a bang.
AVG is horrible. The laughing stock of the Antivirus industry and in my opinion, worse than Norton. They were once so good and did such a great job at keeping your computer clean and safe. Not anymore. They have lost their reputation among the geeks, and are avoided like the plague.
Looking for a good (and free) antivirus? Try these: avast!, Avira, BitDefender. Or go with the “big boys”: Kapersky, McAfee, Windows Live OneCare (does not work with Windows 7).
4 Comments
Ron Schenone
July 31st, 2009
at 4:23pm
Try this:
http://blogote.com/2009/windows-ideas/download-microsoft-antivirus-2009-ms-security-essentials.html
I’m using it on W7 and it seems to work well so far.
Buffet
August 1st, 2009
at 3:38am
AVG is for newbies. If you’re serious about your computer and want the best AV, get ESET’s NOD32. It’s the best.
InternetNut
August 1st, 2009
at 7:02am
I’ll take a look at Ron’s suggegstion - but I use Avira, and it seems to do OK for me. I’ve used AVG before, and it did the job, but I think Avira does it much better.
Aryeh Goretsky
August 1st, 2009
at 11:33pm
Hello,
Microsoft has not released Windows 7 yet, so you must be running either a Release Candidate or a Beta Test version. As such, it is pretty unlikely that any antivirus vendor is officially offering support.
If you are having a problem with a product, you should contacting their technical support–perhaps they are aware of the issue and have a simple workaround or fix you can try, or a patch for you to download. After all, one of the reasons you purchase licenses for software is to get support when you need it.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky