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Two days ago I updated avg, update went fine and it prompted for restart, once the computer came back on it wouldn't boot, at all.
Managed to try booting into safe mode and startup hung on avgidsha.sys *every* time.
Used my tablet to check online and found it's a known problem, AVG even have a section of their site dedicated to fixing it.
One problem, their rescue disk thing to fix it requires somewhere you can plug in a usb stick or a cd burner to make it. I don't have another pc or a laptop.
Tried the library computers, can't unzip the file because of the protective software on there. All my friend are at work.
Called out a pc repair company but managed to fix the damn pc before he turned up. Saved £50+ by cancelling the tech. (Spent the saved money on magic cards. I know, I know, but after 7 hours of trying to fix this clusterf**k i needed a treat and M15 came out a week or so ago.)
Got onto the desktop, uninstalled AVG. The PC runs better, boots faster and can handle more tasks at once than it has since the day i got it home.
Never *ever* going back to AVG. This is not the first problem I've had either.
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So, AVG is out, i've installed Avast free for now, what are your antivirus recommendations?
Two days ago I updated avg, update went fine and it prompted for restart, once the computer came back on it wouldn't boot, at all.
Managed to try booting into safe mode and startup hung on avgidsha.sys *every* time.
Used my tablet to check online and found it's a known problem, AVG even have a section of their site dedicated to fixing it.
One problem, their rescue disk thing to fix it requires somewhere you can plug in a usb stick or a cd burner to make it. I don't have another pc or a laptop.
Tried the library computers, can't unzip the file because of the protective software on there. All my friend are at work.
Called out a pc repair company but managed to fix the damn pc before he turned up. Saved £50+ by cancelling the tech. (Spent the saved money on magic cards. I know, I know, but after 7 hours of trying to fix this clusterf**k i needed a treat and M15 came out a week or so ago.)
Got onto the desktop, uninstalled AVG. The PC runs better, boots faster and can handle more tasks at once than it has since the day i got it home.
Never *ever* going back to AVG. This is not the first problem I've had either.
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So, AVG is out, i've installed Avast free for now, what are your antivirus recommendations?
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