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AVG is absolutely the sorriest AV on the net. Millions of people download this garbage everyday. Mostly noobs that don't know any better that fall for the hype. There are millions of people out there with infected computers and have no idea that it's infected because AVG will not let the user know it. AVG has no root kit protection running in real time. That in it's self makes it worthless. Most viruses will come in the for of a root kit or just plain Mal ware. Another down fall of AVG. It won't detect Trojan Mal ware most of the time. What it does detect most of the time it can't delete it.

The job of a well working AV is to stop threats at the door. AVG will not do it. Neither will Avast or most any other free AV. People on here want to believe in the fairy tail that they can get something for nothing. I learned the hard way you can't. I learned the hard way about some things. Others i learned in the army as a communications officer.

Pay for your AV. Don't listen to these noobs on here. If you do it's only a matter of time till your computer will be hopelessly infected. People on here will tell you that AVG works great. See above.

People will tell you on here that Avast works great. Avast has no heuristic scanning in the free version. That makes it worthless because there are millions of Infections that Avast can't remove or even detect because of this. That makes that boot scanner worthless crap to.

Avira is good. But it has it's problems to. Avira doesn't always update the way it should. So you have to watch it and make sure it updates. Avira has a problem with faults positives.

Pay for your AV. You will be better off. Research it yourself. Don't listen to the noobs on here.

AS far as your cookie problem, Switch to firefox if you haven't already. Most all cookie problems can be resolved within your browser settings.

Right now the best you will find out there is Kaspersky. A few on here will tell you about Kaspersky. Most on here will push that same old free crap that they always have. Research it yourself.

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In the year I've had AVG, I have had no virus or any problem. So it's obviously doing a good job. It was recommended to me by a friend who is a computer technician.

After a scan is finished, a small advisory card appears in the lower right corner of my screen, which tells me how many items were scanned and how many Warnings they are alerting me to. I click on the word "Warnings" and the list appears on the screen. At the bottom right of the list is the option to "Remove all unhealed infections" and I click on that. Then in the left column I click on Computer Scanner which gives me View Virus Vault, which I click on, and then I click on Empty Virus Vault. Then you're done and all you need do is click on Close and that will clear your screen.

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tracking cookies are of the low alert status( not much of a threat).

avg is among the top 10 antivirus software providers in the world. The only downside to avg is its pretty heavy on comp resources. Antivirus alone will not protect your comp with present day threats on the internet. you also need malware/spyware protection. Go here to download-malwarebytes.org free download install update and run full scan. run this along with your antvirus once or twice a week to protect comp. good luck and be safe out there!

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deleting the viruses from the vault will delete them from your hard disk. In free programs, there is none better. I have been using AVG since version 7.0. Get rid of limewire. AVG is great. the fact that it put it in the vault is good.

its just finding cookies sounds like. as soon as you go back to the site which gave you the cookie, it will give you another one, so i wouldn't worry about it much.

Ya it will do so many things.

first it will capture your hard disk space and then remove important files except the virus affected one.

then it will decrese the RAM speed