There are various reasons to disable your anti virus temporarily.
AVG 7 does not make it easy to disable it.
Instructions
- Right click on the AVG icon in your system tray (bottom right next to the clock)
- Select “Launch AVG Free Control Center”
- On the Security status page, you should see a list of items with green check boxes next to them.
- Right click on “Resident shield” and select “Properties”
- Un check “Turn on AVG Free resident Shield protectio”
- Click OK
Remember to re-enable the virus scanner when you are done doing what ever you are doing.
How do you do it with 8.0, when I right click on resident shield
nothing happens. ???
PETER.
its good
buy another computer without AVG..
haha
sometimes i wonder if antivirus programmes are really that different from the viruses themselves!
Well Said MADCLOWN!!!!!
For AVG 8, the instructions are a little different.
Instructions
1. Right click on the AVG icon in your system tray (bottom right next to the clock)
2. Select “Open AVG User Interface”
3. On the window that opens, you should see a list of items with green check boxes next to them.
4. Double click on “Resident Shield”
5. Uncheck Resident Shield active”
6. Click Save Changes
Every time I disable the Resident Shield, Windows Security icon pops up telling me that I’m not protected. Any idea how to stop that. avgrsx.exe sucks up a ton of memory.
Thanks.
Remember Underwood’s 1st Law; “Any piece of software, left in the hands of marketing for a sufficient length of time, will become indistinguishable from malware”.
Anti-virus software is built like that for a reason else the virus could just shut the antivirus down itself.
Thanks bro.
I did as you suggested and “Uncheck(ed) Resident Shield active” but it still displays that the antivirus is active. Is the antivirus still active? Or is the Resident Shield like a master component that shuts down everything if you disable it?
AVG got upset when some viruses bypassed AVG & infected the AVG files so after Ver 8 AVG will not let anyone or any program that acts like a virus disable it so you stuck with it my advise uninstall it & try another like panda kaspersky ect..
I Uninstalled the one on my pc & installed panda i can control this one & I can install the applications i want without interference or nagging AVG.
another way to to disable all of avg for win vista and win 7 users is to click start and on the search bar type cmd and press enter (this opens command prompt). Then type: taskkill /f /im avg*
this will end all avg process’s.
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