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AVG Free Crashing when doing scan..

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chunter
chunter Posts: 2,015 Forumite
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AVG 8 Free crashing when doing scan on infected pc.

So took hard drive out and put it in second pc as slave drive.

Now crashing the other pc when I scan. How can this be?
What sort of virus crashes computer whenever virus is not even running?

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  • latecomer
    latecomer Posts: 4,331 Forumite
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    why not try another of the free AV packages and see how you get on.
  • chunter
    chunter Posts: 2,015 Forumite
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    I went with nod32's online scanner. I will update details as soon as it does it's thing.
  • zee_2
    zee_2 Posts: 566 Forumite
    after being a avg user , fed up and changed to 'avast' it's very good ,I feeel avg is pushing people to pay version.
  • aliEnRIK
    aliEnRIK Posts: 17,741 Forumite
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    chunter wrote: »
    AVG 8 Free crashing when doing scan on infected pc.

    So took hard drive out and put it in second pc as slave drive.

    Now crashing the other pc when I scan. How can this be?
    What sort of virus crashes computer whenever virus is not even running?

    Sounds to me like theres a virus on the hard drive
    :idea:
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