Fake spyware scanner Malware Bytes cant take out.

[newtekie1]

I've been installing AVG's latest version on several PCs from laptops to high-end desktops and I've never seen CPU usage idle anything over 0%. When the on demand scanner is running there are resources being used obviously, but I wouldnt say it made the PC useless.

@ bazookajoe there must have been something wrong with your PC or AVG install for it to run @ 100% all day. You should just scan overnight.

Correct, like I said, I have it installed on many machines ranging from my quad-core gaming machine, to single core celerons. Never notice it, even when the on-demand scan is running. When the on-demand scan is running, it will use 100% of the CPU. However, that is where actually understanding how your AV works comes into play. The little slider on the on-demand scanning screen will adjust the priority of the scan. When set to "Slow Scan" the priority will be at it's lowest, so any program you run will take priority over AVG. This setting will make and on-demand scan virtually invisiable to the user, even if it is saying the CPU is at 100%. And yes, you can change an option in AVG so that every on-demand scan defaults to this setting, I do it on all the single core machines I install AVG on.

 

[iStink]

One of my professors in college was absolutely convinced mcafee and apple both wrote the majority of viruses out there today lol

Anyways, if I were to remove mcafee now, would it disrupt my system?

 

[newtekie1]

No, you shouldn't have a problem. Just make sure you have another AV downloaded and read to install after you get McAfee uninstalled.

And after you uninstall McAfee, run the McAfee Consumer Product Removal Tool found here:

http://download.mcafee.com/products/licensed/cust_support_patches/MCPR.exe

This makes sure all the pieces of McAfee have been uninstalled.

 

[BazookaJoe]

I've been installing AVG's latest version on several PCs from laptops to high-end desktops and I've never seen CPU usage idle anything over 0%. When the on demand scanner is running there are resources being used obviously, but I wouldnt say it made the PC useless.

@ bazookajoe there must have been something wrong with your PC or AVG install for it to run @ 100% all day. You should just scan overnight.

Over 20 pc's both AMD and Intel (Not all belonging to the same people), ALL older single core "office" machines (win XP / 2000). All Rendered Useless by AVG CPU Usage - none of them Mine.

This was very soon after V8 was launched - but all of those people no longer use AVG because of this - So it may well have been fixed in more recent versions, I'm really not too sure, as none of my customers use it any more, and I Use Nod32.

See : "My experiences with AVG Free used to be very positive, but recently, with the newer versions, it just seems to take over the machine making it impossible for the computer to even be used at times." By : pcgolfer85

I have seen a lot of other people complaining about the same fault online - Just Google - I know many PPl are not affected, but many are - and whatever causes it makes the pc completely unusable.

I still wont Use or recommend AVG due to its very poor virus detection track record - I suppose it IS better than nothing if you have a newer PC, but I still rate it poorly - even when its NOT flattening your CPU, as I have seen so many infections walk straight through it as it was made of wet toilet paper - That's just my personal experience with the product :\

And to be fair - at the time when I Abandoned AVG (Witch Admit I have done and I have not tested newer versions since the initial releases of V8) I did SIGNIFICANT amounts of testing with VM's infecting them with viruses I had found at customers, and AVG routinely ignored viruses that where sometimes as much as more than a year old according to other AV virus databases.