AVG Antivirus updates lead to frozen PCs
If you are using a 64-bit version of Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system on your computer system and AVG antivirus program to protect your system from harmful viruses and bugs then you must read this blog post really very carefully.
Recently, AVG had released an anti-virus update for its newest antivirus program AVG 11, although it is always recommended to keep your antivirus program updated but it would be healthy for your system if you don’t this time.
On December 1, an anti-virus update was released on Official AVG website which seems to make all the PCs running on Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system unusable.
The Problem with AVG antivirus for 64-bit Windows 7
AVG, anti-virus team acknowledged that the software’s compatibility on systems using 64-bit version of Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system was not well and thus PCs are behaving in an alienated manner to the new software update. LOL
The company has withdrawn the update and has apologized for all the inconvenience caused by it.
The problem was caused by a virus database upgrade that compelled the system to shut down and reboot. While rebooting it creates an error log in the system files which unfortunately makes system crash.
Although, it is no big deal if you have a rescue CD that can be used to retrieve system files and AVG antivirus program files but still it can make system dead for some time.
Some Screenshots of AVG A/V @ Work
The software developers have called off the whole thing from their portal and are now working to create something that fuels the system rather than dividing it into pieces.
The step-by-step recovery details have been launched on AVG antivirus program’s official website. So if you are a Windows 7 64-bit user and have faced this problem, do check the solution on AVG website.
I think these things can happen; after all making software compatible for one operating system is easy but you never if it would run on all the versions of that operating system.
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you are absolutely right mate. i am using AVG in my windows 7 PC it will often get freezed. and i have to restart my PC.
Hmm… is it working fine now?
Oh.. Thanks a lot for the warning mate! I was just about to install AVG… Better go for Avast instead
AVG is good no doubt but as i wrote in my post, we talking about tons of thousands of lines of codes and then so many functions that check the virus codes.
So, it is mechanical that mistakes might occur, no big deal.
I have the problem and was searching for an answer when I came upon this. AVG is installed and I have Windows 7 64 bit machine. I thought it might be a program called Sandibox so removed it. All was good for 3 days when it did it again and again and again. I am on a mates computer at the moment so will not be able to try and uninstall AVG until I get back which is in 5 days time. I hope it works…… I did try a Memory Diagonises and all come back good.