Recent content by paulmars

i dont believe that i had win def active monitoring, just did a complete sys scan once a week with win def and avg. AVG was active monitoring too. Now i wanted the same with avast, but it closed off win def. I say "i dont believe" because im new to win def and I dont remember if it even allowed...

im not in the business of selling tabloid mags. I search and read many sites when im looking for info. im not here to BS u or anyone into believing that I read something that I did not. 'win def' stands for 'windows defender'. coexist means that i can use both as I see fit. AVG let me do...

directly after i posted above about win def I did a search and several sites indicated that since win7, win can run multiply avs and that defender is designed to coexist. Again ive installed avg on 3 different installs on three different boxes and win def did not deactivate.

not on 3 installs of avg on three different boxes with win7

who what turned off win defender? Was it avast during install? Nice of them to do that w/o telling me. AVG never did that.

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house call went from 96 to 100% very fast and no threats found. Rootkit bust no threats either

96%...it appears to be stuck on a link to this url "Crossword Solver and Word Finder | WHAT'S THIS WORD"

yes and did a defrag too.

foolish me. When I got up this morning I saw 96% complete. that actually excited me. Well, four hours later and its now at 96%. Well, maybe its really 96.2%

"trendmicro.com and run the HOUSECALL online scanner." (NO online scanner, it needed to dnld and be installed then run). ... 624 minutes later 54% of this measly 250g HDD that is only 20% full has been scanned. Welcome to the museum's primitive section. Here behind the glass is an old world...

Solid state (no spinning) sata HDDs are available for old type desktops like mine right? Can u recommend the best brand?

BTW my AVG found some threat in my previous version of videolan, so I deleted it and dnlded it from the original source again and AVG found the same, next day AVG found the same on new vidoelan dnld. So, i let AVG remove it. A few days ago a new version of lideolan and AVG found another (or...

got it

i searched and did not find. other then each reply to that thread is numbered 1 thru 20...