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avg didn't do anything

Feb 16, 2011 9:39AM PST

i have seen multiple computers crash with avg installed

only 4 or 5 times out of the 40 so test that ive run only 5 times at the most did abything get detected

i could run ad aware,spybot and pick up loads of spyware

in all avg is just norton/mcafee= run them all day and they will get nothing

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You bring up a good idea.
Feb 16, 2011 11:03AM PST

While I know folk want an antivirus that catches everything, there isn't one made that does that!

Adaware and Spybot are sadly out of date. Read the CNET Spyware forum for newer apps.
Bob

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Re: avg didn't do anything
Feb 20, 2011 2:59PM PST

Hello coolguy71261,

do you have still access to computers, which crashed with AVG installed? What is the exact behaviour before the crash? Is possible to get files from C:\Windows\minidump folder for closer analysis?

Thank you