AVG and impact on Internet connectivity

re: AVG and impact on Internet connectivity

George — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:04:14 GMT

Hi,

Mine appears to have done much more damage. Using Vista 64bit the PC got slower and slower and I decided to reboot as there did not appear to be any unduly heavy CPU/Memory running. Failed to reboot with the error message: registry file failure,registry cannot load the hive\systemroot\system32\config\software Windows repair on the CD crashes with a page fault in non paged error message. Have installed all MS updates last week with no problems but suspect the AVG Anti-Virus updates may have caused the problem - only thing that auto updates on my machine. Any solutions would be appreciated.

Have managed to connect my hard drive to laptop and reinstall the "OLD" registry settings. Restarted the machine and dowloaded the newest version of AVG. Stopped my internet connection and then on reboot exactly the same problem. Corrupt registry.

Will try again later, this time uninstalling AVG. Have contacted their support as have the Pro version of AVG 8.

Cheers,

George

re: AVG and impact on Internet connectivity

Ian Grant — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:52:47 GMT

I too got hit by a loss of connectivity just on the Server - thanks to you I have saved so much time in resolving this.

Thanks again

Ian

re: AVG and impact on Internet connectivity

Bill Glidden — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:55:57 GMT

I got hit, too and did not suspect AVG. Serveral MS security updates were done at the same time as the AVG update and I was thinking it had to be one of them. Wasn't MS this time!

Thanks, Susan.

re: AVG and impact on Internet connectivity

mark h — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:28:03 GMT

Thanks,

this problem was driving me crazy for days and I thought it was related to something else since I updated another application right before the problem started.

Thank you so much

re: AVG and impact on Internet connectivity

Frank F. — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:14:02 GMT

I got bit by the AVG "Freakout" last night. A client with SBS 2003 STD. SP2/AVG SBS Edition. It took out Internet access on the server only and Monitoring & Reporting. All Clients 25 had no problems at all just the server. I ran the Fixfliles.exe utility but the problem remained. I then removed AVG from the server / restarted and reinstalled and got Internet and Monitoring/Reporting back.

The strange thing was it dismounted the Exchange Information store after the reboot. I Remounted the store and everything is functioning normally

re: AVG and impact on Internet connectivity

Steve — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:04:25 GMT

You star - I was moments away from reinstalling the OS on my laptop!