TSGL: AVG Anti-Spyware Locks Up PC Occasionally???

Lee Bunyard leebunyard at comcast.net
Thu Jul 5 18:48:02 EDT 2007


Anyone else who's using the AVG Free Anti-Spyware product having 
problems with the updates occasionally locking up your pc when you do a 
scan??  It's kinda weird, after doing an update, in about 1 out of every 
3 or 4 times when I start to do either a Complete System Scan or Fast 
System Scan, my desktop will lock up.  I mean totally lock up, I have to 
do a power down and cold reboot to start it up again.  It almost always 
happens within the first 1-2 seconds after I click on either the 
Complete System Scan or Fast System Scan.  I think it starts out 
scanning Memory so I assume someone there is causing the lockup.  
Sometimes when I reboot and try the scan again, it will run OK.  Today I 
tried it four times and it locked up each time.

My desktop is an HP Pavillion running XP Home, 512 memory.  I have never 
had the problem occur when running the AVG AS product on my laptop, 
which is also an HP running XP Home and 512 memory. 
Any thoughts welcome.
Lee in the Mountains of Northern California  



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