I forgot to add that I've been running AVG-free since the 6.x days starting under win98, and it has always been possible to schedule when full scanning runs, and to prevent it from running on a schedule completely as far as I recall. On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 05:35:13PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 01:13:16AM -0700, Tony Baechler wrote: > > AVG is now pretty much dead and it > > was the antivirus which totally made my machine come to a complete stop at > > 8 AM daily. OK, it turned out that it's a scheduling "feature" which is > > part of AVG, but I couldn't turn it off. I could change when it ran, but > > no matter what, it was going to do a full virus scan every day whether I > > liked it or not. So much for me controlling the machine, but that's > > typical Windows behavior. > > What do you mean when you say that AVG is pretty much dead? I use > AVG-free on one of my machines here, and it still seems to be very > much alive. It has definition updates daily as far as I can tell. It > also seems to come out with a minor version upgrade about every half a > year, and with a major version upgrade about once a year. > > As far as your box locking up, you must have been running on a very old > machine. I'm running AVG-free 2013 on a 2.2GHz pentium IV single core with no > hyperthreading, and one gig of RAM. The machine doesn't fly while > doing virus scanning, but it's still quite useable, and fairly > responsive. As far as scheduling full virus scans, it is possible to > schedule both how often AVG-free runs them, and at what time of day. I > have mine scheduled to run once a week for instance. Guess what? You > can even turn off full virus scanning completely if you don't want it > to run at all on any schedule. > > I'm not trying to defend AVG-free. Like many things, it isn't > perfect. I do know from personal experience though that your > statements above aren't correct regarding the latest version of > AVG-free. As far as controlling your machine, I'll admit that windows > doesn't give you as much control as GNU/Linux does. Having said that, > I still maintain that windows, and AVG-free give the user quite a bit > of control. I would say it gives the user more control than it > doesn't. It's just a matter of knowing what to set, and where, and the > internet is your friend here if your own knowledge comes up short. > > Greg > > > -- > web site: http://www.gregn.net > gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org
