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    Windows 7 Security Suites for windows 7

    Over the past six months I"ve had a chance to try most all the company security suites. Here's my opinion. ON a windows 7 duo core machine with 2 gb of memory: Norton 2010: Excellent graphics with the 3d doesn't take up any memory doing scans installs real fast. An excellent program...
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    Windows 7 CPU spikes

    Hi, At random intervals, regardless of if I'm working with the PC or just listening idly to music in iTunes, the system will hang for about 5 seconds at a time. During the freeze, both cores max out, the mouse and all apps freeze and the music will play the last half second of audio...
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    Windows 7 LG R510 Driver Problem...

    Hi Everyone, I am new to this forum... I was wondering if anyone knows where to get the driver for the 'PCI Memory Controller' I installed Windows 7 Ultimate, and all the drivers were found I think... cause there were no problems with anything... But once I installed AVG the system got...
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    Windows 7 XBOX 360 as Extender on WMC7

    I have been reading with interest Optic-Flare's thread. I did notice there seems to have been no resolution. I cannot get my two XBOX 360's to communicate (via hard wire) to my WMC7 PC. Three things I have noticed: 1) Xbox Live connections work fine, 2) the Media Center Extender Service can...
  5. Windows Vista Avg 8.5 (Should I Monitor This??)

    I have my AVG 8.5 set to automatic scan (Not Fast) Here's what I get: I do have other processes going, it never bothered "Norton" that much..... This is what I get in the Task Manager without AVG running:
  6. Windows 7 When Will Microsoft Security Essentials Be Available?

    A large amount of you folks on here seem to have a supernatural ability to know that the rest of the population can only speculate about. Do any of you well connected folks like drew or reghackr or anyone have an idea of when Microsoft Security Essentials is intended to be made available i've...
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    Windows 7 Secure Windows 7?

    Hello :) I'm new here and just wondering... Windows 7 is a nice system, I already have Windows 7 Release Candidate. But still the security issue remains. I have some programs - Mil Shield, Lavasoft Firewall and AVG IS and they run perfectly on this Windows 7 release. But some other my...
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    Windows 7 doesn't recognize my wireless card

    so first thing i tried after installing the release candidate was antivirus software (in this case AVGfree) and it needed to connect to the internet to complete. I checked the icon in the taskbar and it told me there was no signal, which i know there is. add devices never completed so for some...
  9. Windows 7 AVG Update detects iTunes as Malware

    As per report submitted at Slashdot.org, recent update of AVG detects iTunes as malware. Looks like it is a slip up from AVG's end for treating iTunes as virus. Users reported about the same at the Link Removed - Invalid URL. Oh well, this has nothing to do with iTunes on Mac OS X platform...
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    Windows 7 Forced into safe mode?

    Whenever I attempt to start Windows normally the login screen doesn't show, it's just black. Then when I login it just shows the backround but none of my programs show up nor does the task bar. If I ctrl-alt-del the screen goes black once more. I know everything is there because it all shows up...
  11. Windows 7 Windows 7 BSOD issues

    Hi guys, I really hope someone can help me with this problem I am having with Windows 7. I will start by trying to give you as much detail as to what is happening: I recently installed the 64 bit build 7100 onto my computer and I keep getting the BSOD randomly at different times, sometimes it...
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    Windows Vista Reporting viruses?

    Is there a place where we can report software that came with viruses? I hate people that do stuff like that. I just downloaded and installed AVS audio converter and AVG nailed it with 3 viruses.
  13. Windows 7 Chkdsk hangs at start

    Well after just a day of using windows 7 I've got some classic windows slowdown symptoms. I'm thinking it's probably AVG 8.5 free thats doing it, but I run a chkdsk /f just to make sure. System starts booting, goes to chkdsk, does the countdown: "To skip disk checking, press any key within x...
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    Windows 7 Downloads Disapearing

    I installed 7 last night and managed to download a couple of apps and install them (Skype, AVG) however now trying to download other apps (printer driver, itunes) and the downloads complete, however the installer files vanish, tried downloading to desktop, user data\downloads etc and getting the...
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    Windows 7 HELP!!! avg scan found 17 trojans

    I have never had a trojan, virus, etc. I've run every OS since 3.1. I have an Acer 5515, running free AVG 8.5 and it is up to date. I picked up ALL of these in the past week The scan took 2hrs and 48 minutes to complete. Some of the trojans were duplicates. Please tell me how to access...
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    Windows 7 I open port. But can't access port!

    Hi friends! I just installed Windows 7 and AVG Free edition. I want to open port 1666 to allow connections from the internet to use Perforce. I think everything is correctly setup because I can access the local machine using localhost:1666. I opened the ports in Windows Firewall (in/out)...
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    Windows 7 AV for Win 7

    I apologize if this has been asked and answered; I couldn't find it on a search. Is there a free AV program that works WELL with Win 7? I've been using AVG with XP and Vista and quite happy with it but it bogged down Win 7 badly. Thanks for any info.
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    Windows Vista AVG Antivirus

    I'm currently running McAfee Internet Security. Yesterday I was taliking to my computer tech who said he didn't like McAfee and recommended the free version of AVG and windows Firewall. Any thoughts on this? Fred
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    Windows 7 Chrome/Safari conflict?

    I put Google Chrome on shortly after first installing the 7000 build. Sometime after, I put on Safari as well, and liked it better, so pretty much stopped using the Chrome. Sometime later, I wanted to compare page load times or something, and tried to use Chrome; it couldn't access any sites...
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    Windows 7 Issues with AVG Installation and Uninstallation on Windows 7 64-bit

    ok i install avg but now it is telling me i need to reinstall it again but each time i do it is not working and i cant uninstall it can anyone help plz. sorry forget to put in am using 64x wd7 7100