Since the move over to the new 8 series AVG, it has ran like an absolute dog. Now i realise that I probably have more files than the average user, with over 1.5Tb of data on this machine, but considering that the old 7.5 version used to take approx 4.5 hours to scan, why does this new version take over 14 hours?

I have tried tinkering with the options, making sure it was set to fast scan and Googled to see if there was anything else i could do, but it would seem that its giving a lot of people similar problems with no known cure.

I’m rarely away from the computer for over 14 hours, so I don’t want to have to contend with the machine running sluggishly and being unresponsive for the anti-virus to run a scan which is why it was scheduled to do its thing during the night while I’m asleep. Its a shame, I’ve been a loyal user of AVG for a number of years now but the time has come to ditch it.

I have done a bit of reading of reviews about the various free anti-virus providers and Avira looks really quite promising. I had considered going back to Avast, but that bloody irritating “Your virus database has been updated” it feels compelled to shout periodically just annoys the life out of me. I leave my computer on 24/7 and the last thing I need is that shouting at me in the middle of the night if I have forgotten to turn down the volume. To be fair, there is probably an option somewhere to disable that, but most reviews give it a low detection percentage anyway so I’m going to give it a wide berth for now.

I’ve installed Avira, and I’m letting it do a full scan of my drives now, so lets see what it comes up with.

~Shepy