AVG 8 killed me internet!!!!

strides35

Hey ppl,

I have a HP Pavillion dv6500, running vista home premium, it has been working just fine untill today when i updated from AVG 7.5 to AVG 8!

The new AVG installed fine, it opened up and looked real slick, so the first thing I tried to do was update it! So I tried to start my Internet, I use the "O2 mobile Broadband wireless usb thingy, which had also worked just fine till today, but It could not connect because according to the mouse-over text above the task tray icon, it say's..... " The serrvice cannot be started because it is either disabled or has no enabled device with it".

I ran services.msc and tried to start the services but nothing worked, I use windows firewall but that is not the problem..

This really pee'd me off, I have been searching on line using another laptop all day trying to get it sorted, So here I am

Am I the only one with this prob? can anyone help?

If not the only thing I can do is use the recovery drive... (yikes!!!)

Here's hoping..... Chris.

Sherifu

Is this avg internet security with a firewall?

strides35

No it has no firewall, just anti virus and anti spyware, with phishing filters and e-mail scanner, looks better than the old version, if only it would work!!

Sherifu

What does the connection look like in network connections?

strides35

there is nothing in the network connection window, just lots of clean white space...

strides35

strides35 wrote: »

there is nothing in the network connection window, just lots of clean white space...

and in the network and sharing window it just sys "unknown".

When i try to turn on network discovery it says "the dependency service or group failed to start"!!

Sherifu

Hmmm, how about trying the mobile broadband in a different usb port?

strides35

Just tried that, nothing happenes, it should auto start, i uninstalled it and re installed it earlier but tht did nothing, when i click the icon to connect it does nothing either, looks like im going to have to re instal vista!!

Sherifu

A system restore?

strides35

I did three different restores today, none worked, i swear everyone avoid AVG 8!!! I really really dont want to re instal vista, but thats all I can think of now..... Woe is memate, woe is me..

Sherifu

Think i'll try to avoid avg 8 on the work pc.

strides35

Yeah avoid for now im sure they will fix it, thanks for trying mate!

bushy...

Kick off the installer again , you should get 3 choices :
Add/Remove bits , Repair Install , Uninstall .

Norton must have got plenty of fanmail over the same problem , they have a tool to remove their stuff : http://www.symantec.com/nrt/

sparksfly

Ditch AVG 8 and download Avira free edition. Works fine on Vista.

strides35

Yeah I just tried to repair it again, Im thinking the problem was a virus insde AVG 8, i had to uninstall AVG 7.5 to install the new one, which left me expossed!!!
I think it messed up the internet services etc..

strides35

sparksfly wrote: »

Ditch AVG 8 and download Avira free edition. Works fine on Vista.

Yup once i get back on-line I'm loosing avg for good!

MarkR

I have avg 8 running on loads of machines with no difficulties. I doubt that AVG is distributing installation files with viruses in them. Much more likely you had some form of software problem on your computer.

Shiny

sparksfly wrote: »

Ditch AVG 8 and download Avira free edition. Works fine on Vista.

I did just that a few weeks ago as I was getting really annoyed
with AVG.

But christ Avira is even more annoying. Mainly due to the pop ups
advertising itself. The last straw was when I was in the middle of a
game of battlefield 2 and it was minimised with a message from
Avira advertising their "Insert bull**** product here" package.

I currently have no anti virus installed.:rolleyes:

yoyo

Shiny wrote: »

I did just that a few weeks ago as I was getting really annoyed
with AVG.

But christ Avira is even more annoying. Mainly due to the pop ups
advertising itself. The last straw was when I was in the middle of a
game of battlefield 2 and it was minimised with a message from
Avira advertising their "Insert bull**** product here" package.

I currently have no anti virus installed.:rolleyes:

http://www.elitekiller.com/files/disable_antivir_nag.htm

Works a treat

Nick

bushy...

I've seen this pick up stuff others missed , doesn't bring the whole show to a crawl like norton etc , only 30 days free though : http://www.eset.com/products/nod32.php
Free online scan : http://www.eset.com/onlinescan/

Shiny

yoyo wrote: »

http://www.elitekiller.com/files/disable_antivir_nag.htm

Works a treat

Nick

Score ! Thanks