Re: AVG free anti-virus causes XP to lock up

DaveTheOldGuy wrote:
howdy - as subject says, for some oddball reason, the AVG anti virus, free edition, makes PC running XP lock up after running the program - scanning the drive - after about 1 1/2 minutes. Every time. Here's the really odd part. I can remove the Net card and no problem. I have tried a new net card. Same thing. If net card is in the machine - scanning locks the PC. It's the June 07 edition of AVG free. AND it's a new install of XP. If I don't run the scan on AVG, the PC will run just fine. Perhaps some other 'free' anti-virus program needs to be tried? Dont' know of any.. Doesn't make sense to me. Any Ideas?? -Gracias !

Avast! includes a bootscan which can check for malware before the problem programs get control. You can schedule a bootscan during the initial install, or through its control panel menu. It's a bit hard to get to; you run the antivirus program, and after the memory scan, a control panel is displayed. Click the Menu button on the upper-right, click "Schedule Boot-time scan".

Some other software might have this feature, but AVG and McAfee don't.

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