Just a quickie post today, and it’s more of a PSA.
Many of you are using or have used AVG as your anti virus program. For the most part, it’s a good program! I’ve used it for quite a few years, as well as Avast to keep my little puter safe.
However….not the case any longer! I had purchased the AVG program to get more than the freeware program gives. My license expires in a couple of weeks, and I was contemplating renewing it. I also became aware of the fact that AVG had come out with another upgrade, so I of course jumped on it and got it on my computer. I was now the owner of AVG 8.
Pretty interface. More bells. More whistles. And DEFINITELY more headaches!!
To all of you out there who use AVG do not, and I repeat DO NOT, upgrade to version 8!!!!!!
My computer was running like it had glue in it. It was SO unbelievably slow I felt as if I was back using dial-up. I thought I had a virus. I thought I inadvertently downloaded a bad program. I didn’t know WHAT was going on.
My memory was in fabulous shape, only using about 30 percent of what is on my hard drive. My drivers were in great shape. My caches were empty. I was beautifully de-fragged. I could not for the life of me understand why my pages were taking sometimes two minutes to download!
And then it hit me. Hmmmm. I just upgraded my AVG to a new version. So I hunted on the net and sure enough the discussion boards are full of pissed off people who have used AVG 8. The tech geeks are calling it crap. Everyone is saying to get rid of it.
So I pass that on to you. Unless you want to go back to the 1990’s of slow dial-up surfing or worse, and feel as if you have glue in your hard drive, do NOT upgrade your AVG to version 8! If you have it and you are lagging….I guarantee that AVG8 is the culprit. My bro in-law had the same problems and I just fixed his computer yesterday. Uninstall the damn thing and reinstall AVG 7.5. Or screw it altogether and just use Avast- it is a great program.
That is the end of my rant, and my PSA.
Stay tuned for your regularly scheduled program.
