Latest AVG and other AV updates break Windows 7
Over the weekend AVG pushed out an update to their client. This update breaks Windows 7 by causing a Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) after 3 – 5 minutes of using the machine. While I haven’t done extensive research on the issue, removing AVG seems to have fixed the problem. During the uninstall I got the BSoD error, which caused the process to be incomplete. Luckily it removes enough of AVG to have it show disabled when the PC is rebooted. Running the uninstall again makes sure it’s completely out of the system. I’m hoping AVG gets this problem fixed ASAP so I can re-install their virus protection on my PC. After recently having to fix Kaspersky’s BSoD on my system, I really hope I don’t have to install Norton by default.
More to come!
UPDATE: Looks like this issue isn’t only related to AVG.
Just wanted to add that I’ve had this problem with zonealarm as well as avg, and installed microsoft security essentials and have had no problems. I figured microsoft wouldn’t publish an AV that would mess up their own system. Problem fixed and from what I’ve read it’s a decent AV but I’m eager to reinstall AVG and Zonealarm nevertheless.
Very annoying.