So, this past 6-12 months I've been having all sorts of nightmares with Windows 7 and my (free) upgrade to Windows 10. Crashes, blue screens, temporary freezes, temporary internet connection disruption. I've tried to find the cause many times. Corrupted OS, viruses, etc. I've reinstalled OS countless times.
I've only recently reinstalled Win7 and within a few days I'm getting problems again. This time though I've noticed it's since I installed AvG anti-virus, I've had all manner of freezes & crashes. It even prevented me booting due to corrupt AvG boot files. I managed to remove it and all seemed ok. I installed Kaspersky Free.... straight back to crashes, freezes and corruption. I remember having trouble with Avira a while back too. I just got rid of Kasperksy... back to running smoothly again.
Windows Defender seems to run trouble free. But is AV software likely to be causing my problems? Could it be not liking my h/w setup and causing issues? My system runs fine without AV, as soon as I install some... boom.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/01/antivirus-is-bad/
I've only recently reinstalled Win7 and within a few days I'm getting problems again. This time though I've noticed it's since I installed AvG anti-virus, I've had all manner of freezes & crashes. It even prevented me booting due to corrupt AvG boot files. I managed to remove it and all seemed ok. I installed Kaspersky Free.... straight back to crashes, freezes and corruption. I remember having trouble with Avira a while back too. I just got rid of Kasperksy... back to running smoothly again.
Windows Defender seems to run trouble free. But is AV software likely to be causing my problems? Could it be not liking my h/w setup and causing issues? My system runs fine without AV, as soon as I install some... boom.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/01/antivirus-is-bad/