AVG Not Initialising Resident Shield

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For the last couple of days now my AVG hasnt been intialising the resident shield.

I have had to go into it manualy uncheck it, then recheck it then reboot.

This is clearly not ideal.

Im running 2011 Free on windows 7.

Anyone any suggestions as to a perminent solution.

Thanks.
 
I don't like MSE. ;) It's let through trojans on my machine before, and MS's response when I submitted it to their malware team was "Meh, should have bought our paid-for solution then".

AVG 2011 uses less RAM on my machine than MSE (and that's the whole Internet Security suite not just the AV). It also blitzes malware tests with 100% detection rates, thanks to their acquisition of SANA behavioural analysis technology.

I'd not used AVG for years before this, but they've definitely improved a lot with this version. Just the same way Norton has turned around compared to their performance in recent years. If there's one industry that changes a lot, it's this one. What was valid two years ago isn't necessarily the case now. :)

OP if you want to stick with AVG, ask on their free forum for some advice.

EDIT: I also have Comodo Firewall with Defense+ (HIPS) installed. Layered security is always better than relying on one brand or product, regardless of how 'good' they are.
 
iDroid84 said:
In that case you should stop going on sites and click on links that provide these little monsters. You no, torrents, porn, unknown sites e.t.c. Can't blame the security packages.
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What silliness. As it happens the trojan was attached to a spam email. I obviously didn't run it, but MSE scanned it as clean. Submitting it to their malware team got me nothing but an email telling me their paid-for product had been detecting that trojan for over 12 months, so I should have bought that instead of using a freebie. I posted the mails up in the main AV thread at the top of this forum.

What about the latest exploit last week where the BBC website was serving driveby malware to Windows machines through a compromised iframe? Telling people to just avoid porn and torrent sites (which I never use; NNTP ***) and they'll be OK is just plain ignorant tbh. Blaming the user for using the internet instead of the security suite for failing to detect known 12-month-old malware is the strangest thing I've ever heard!
 
iDroid84 said:
^^ I am blaming the user around 95% of the time yes.
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I agree that the best anti-malware measure (aside from not using Windows) lies inside the user's head. No issues there. But what you actually said was 'you can't blame the security software' when clearly - especially in this case - that's nonsense. :)

I do agree, as said above, that layered security is the best way. That's why I use an IS suite with Comodo Firewall + HIPS + auto-sandbox with default deny. What one layer might miss, the others will hopefully catch.

But I just wanted to point out that it's naive to say to users that if they stay away from 'dodgy' sites they'll be OK, and it's their fault not the software if they are compromised. That's clearly not true. Especially when you happen to have your machine borked by the BBC, no less! :p
 
ai, you can't help genuine sites been compromised but it's still personal opinion what security package they use unless they try it themselves.

I might say one, others might say another. Others have had problems with some, others with others e.t.c. Theres not really a package 100% successful. As much security as you throw at machines.
 
iDroid84 said:
You use AVG through right?.....;)
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At the moment, yes. I swap around depending on what's doing well at any given time. But what's the AV got to do with the other layers? AVG would have missed that exploit, yes (as did most other AVs) - but the sandbox and HIPS would have contained it and rendered it useless, so the point is moot. :)
 
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