Advice about AVG services and also use of Google search engine - interrelated topic

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davey

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I used to use AVG services many moons ago when they used to offer free pc servicing and for quite sometime. Now of course they are charging however they seem to have moved into a trickier approached of persuading you to keep spending more and more? This recent once involved a general clean up and speedup etc and cost about $A100. Then I discovered by slow investigations that they had blocked my use of Google which I have for general searching. And had done so without informing me they would do so!

I finally overcame this by using the oldtime favourite Firefox, and also discovered that this blocking can be stopped by me by getting into the guts of the pc manuals and making changes. But all a real hassle. But then I wondered whether having google open is not altogether a good idea and apparently virus infected programs can often get through the google portal?

Any views and advice by our technical saavy members would be good to know ta!
 

I have had Google open for years davey and "Touch Wood", no
obvious problems!

If you suspect that there is something sinister running on your
computer, go to www.bleepingcomputer.com, then get "rkill",
it is one of their anti-virus programmes, it is free, run it, which
might take a few minutes and if there is anything running in the
background, it will stop it, you will get a report and advised to
run you installed anti-virus programme.

If you know how to look in the registry, go there and search for
anything to do with AVG, if you find something just delete it, but
be very careful, do not touch anything else, or your machine will
not work.

Good luck.

Mike.
 
I used those protection services for a while. For the past 8 yrs or so I just use the Defender included in Windows and watch what I download and install. It's the PC equivalent of, if you want the bathroom scale to be happy, watch what you eat.
 

was chattin to the laddie last night and he'd explained that AVG may have sweetheart deals with other companies like Bing etc who compete with google who is a big player. I have also found a method for removing the blocking which involves going into the mechanics of the pc and simple turning off AVG'ss stoppage - what annoyed me is them doing it without any consultation and me paying THEM to do work for me!! thanks guys - back to using firefox who use google themselves - crazy crazy world
 
I have used paid AVG for several years, with only one issue. I subscribe to Tune-up, Driver Updater, and Anti-virus.

I had a problem once, with an updated driver that was "too new" for my laptop.
It does give the option to revert back to the previous driver, which I did easily.

Email AVG and tell them your problem. When I contacted them regarding the driver, they responded within 12 hours and walked me through the process.

It has never affected Google, which I have always open.
 
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davey said:
I used to use AVG services many moons ago when they used to offer free pc servicing and for quite sometime. Now of course they are charging however they seem to have moved into a trickier approached of persuading you to keep spending more and more? This recent once involved a general clean up and speedup etc and cost about $A100. Then I discovered by slow investigations that they had blocked my use of Google which I have for general searching. And had done so without informing me they would do so!

I finally overcame this by using the oldtime favourite Firefox, and also discovered that this blocking can be stopped by me by getting into the guts of the pc manuals and making changes. But all a real hassle. But then I wondered whether having google open is not altogether a good idea and apparently virus infected programs can often get through the google portal?

Any views and advice by our technical saavy members would be good to know ta!
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If you are in a Windows environment get rid of all that third party crap and let Defender do its job. Microsoft engineers are way smarter and more knowledgeable than anyone on this forum could ever possibly be, including myself. Same with Google and its engineers. If you are not running Windows or Android O.S. that just means you are still back in the stone age somewhere watching pretty lights flash on the front panel of your whatchamaycallit hoping it will do computery kinds of stuff which nobody even cares about besides yourself.
 
sch404 said:
If you are in a Windows environment get rid of all that third party crap and let Defender do its job. Microsoft engineers are way smarter and more knowledgeable than anyone on this forum could ever possibly be, including myself. Same with Google and its engineers. If you are not running Windows or Android O.S. that just means you are still back in the stone age somewhere watching pretty lights flash on the front panel of your whatchamaycallit hoping it will do computery kinds of stuff which nobody even cares about besides yourself.
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Sounds more condescending instead of helpful.
 
Sorry if I came across as condescending. I'm just trying to help people get caught up to today's reality. Modern PC's with modern operating systems that are kept up to date no longer require 'servicing,' no longer require any 'third party' apps to work properly and safely. Ten years ago was a different story. I used third party tools and apps myself 'back in the day.' That was before Microsoft finally figured out how to make an O.S. that didn't crash, didn't need third party protection from malware and didn't need rescuing by third party aps.
Disclaimer: I own stock in both Microsoft and Google (Alphabet).
 
Mike said:
I have had Google open for years davey and "Touch Wood", no
obvious problems!

If you suspect that there is something sinister running on your
computer, go to www.bleepingcomputer.com, then get "rkill",
it is one of their anti-virus programmes, it is free, run it, which
might take a few minutes and if there is anything running in the
background, it will stop it, you will get a report and advised to
run you installed anti-virus programme.

If you know how to look in the registry, go there and search for
anything to do with AVG, if you find something just delete it, but
be very careful, do not touch anything else, or your machine will
not work.

Good luck.

Mike.
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"no
obvious problems!" keywords .....why would they make it obvious. ? there is noooo privacy on the net...none ever ....
 
I have always been impressed with AVG and they ran programs for free for years now they are charging and doing some heavy selling - I have faith in them but to put google on blocking on my pc without notifying me personally is impolite and unecessary
 

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