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26th February 2009, 07:49 PM
|  | Security Team | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 2,555 posts. Location: Tulsa, OK Reputation:  | | | AVG Climbing Higher on the Bloatware Ladder?
AVG in my opinion just continues to climb higher and higher on the bloatware ladder and this latest "AVG Remover Tool" puts them right up there with Symantec/Norton and McAfee.
Special tools should be reserved for removing malware. Not a legitimate antivirus!  Quote: Repair Tool of the Week: AVG Remover - Technibble
Why not just uninstall it via the Add/Remove Programs you might say? Because sometimes the uninstaller doesn't completely remove everything. If you try to install a new version of AVG or some other antivirus, you cant because it believes that the old AVG is still installed. This fixes that by running a script that removes all the registry keys that AVG left behind.
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AVG Remover: AVG Antivirus and Security Software Remover utility
AVG Remover utility removes all parts of AVG installation on your computer, including registry items, installation and user files on your disk, etc. AVG Remover is the least option to be used in case the AVG uninstallation / repair installation process has failed repeatedly. Warning: All AVG user settings will be removed after the uninstallation, as well as the Virus Vault content and other item related to AVG installation and use. During the removal procedure you will be asked to restart your computer. Therefore please make sure to finish your work and to save all important data prior to AVG Remover launch.
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26th February 2009, 09:24 PM
|  | TST Oracle | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 8,001 posts. Location: Market Haemorrhoids, Middle England Reputation: | | |
Agreed - I have stopped using it now and install either of the free products from Avira or Avast.
O the winds of change!
__________________ Confuse and Prosper. |
27th February 2009, 02:00 PM
|  | TST Oracle | | Join Date: Jul 2008, 8,171 posts. Location: UK Norfolk ..... Reputation: | | |
i use revo uninstaller
Sometimes for no reason at all a program just wont uninstall repair etc
It happens
__________________ Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming...
Damn, What a ride!!  |
27th February 2009, 03:36 PM
| | Security Team | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 2,555 posts. Location: Tulsa, OK Reputation: | | |
I may be off on my reasoning but it seems to me that an AV should be put in place to watch over the OS. AVG roots itself so deep into the OS it becomes part of it. To me that's like like letting the OS police itself. By the time something happens it's too late...
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27th February 2009, 08:31 PM
|  | TST Expert | | Join Date: Aug 2008, 776 posts. Reputation: | |
I see references all the time here, there and everywhere on must do, should do,
will do it for you program removal tools for various apps.
Norton is a good example. AVG FREE is not. I have over installed that and many
other apps without removing anything. My AVG 8 FREE and spyware terminator
is running constantly as real-time shield and system idle is 98 or 99 consistently.
I installed Spybot S/D over old one without any probs at all.
Norton and Mcafee are bloatware. But if something bogs down your sys, move.
I've had many more probs with a botched M$ update than any app install or
removal. Am I just lucky? I doubt it.  |
27th February 2009, 08:32 PM
| | TST Oracle | | Join Date: Jul 2008, 8,171 posts. Location: UK Norfolk ..... Reputation: | | |
Well Avg8 and Malwarebytes keeps me free of nasties
I rest my case
__________________ Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming...
Damn, What a ride!! |
27th February 2009, 08:48 PM
| | Security Team | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 2,555 posts. Location: Tulsa, OK Reputation: | | |
I've been critical of AVG since it refused to install when I tried to upgrade to the 8.0 version. I was willing to give the Yahoo/Link Scanner crap a pass and use it anyway since I had been for around 5 years. Tried for help in the AVG Free forums and they are a bunch of a$$^oles. That was enough for me. Switched to Avast and haven't looked back.
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27th February 2009, 08:54 PM
| | TST Oracle | | Join Date: Jul 2008, 8,171 posts. Location: UK Norfolk ..... Reputation: | |
Kevin i detect you are in a grumpy mood 
__________________ Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming...
Damn, What a ride!! |
27th February 2009, 09:03 PM
| | Security Team | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 2,555 posts. Location: Tulsa, OK Reputation: | |
Who me? I got you mood right here 
Just kidding 
Love ya!!  |
27th February 2009, 09:06 PM
| | TST Oracle | | Join Date: Jul 2008, 8,171 posts. Location: UK Norfolk ..... Reputation: | |
Oh no
you hiding up ??
__________________ Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming...
Damn, What a ride!! |
27th February 2009, 09:13 PM
| | Security Team | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 2,555 posts. Location: Tulsa, OK Reputation: | |
You can't see me??  |
27th February 2009, 09:14 PM
| | TST Oracle | | Join Date: Jul 2008, 8,171 posts. Location: UK Norfolk ..... Reputation: | |
Your light is off
makes me nervous to think the mods are hiding
Albert help me
__________________ Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming...
Damn, What a ride!! |
27th February 2009, 09:18 PM
| | Security Team | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 2,555 posts. Location: Tulsa, OK Reputation: | |
Just don't look behind you!!
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27th February 2009, 09:20 PM
| | TST Oracle | | Join Date: Jul 2008, 8,171 posts. Location: UK Norfolk ..... Reputation: | |
Well now you are trying to kill me by laughter
__________________ Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming...
Damn, What a ride!!
Last edited by Blackmirror; 27th February 2009 at 09:26 PM.
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28th February 2009, 03:26 PM
|  | TST Member | | Join Date: Feb 2009, 81 posts. Location: Steeler Nation Capital Reputation: | | |
To remove Avast Free you have to disable its self protection, it may also be true for AVG and other antivirus programs. When I removed my norton junk I did not know about removal tools so I used Revo Uninstaller did a fair job everything worked great after doing it. Later just exploring my computer I found files and folders that said Norton or Symentec so I deleted them manually.
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