Missed this thread earlier sorry...

Add me to the rank and file of angry consumers my home machine is so effed up I cant even copy paste files :damn:

This will probably end up in a class action suit as I am estimating that 100's of thousands have been effected.

"A moderate disruption" huh.... those dorks turned my fine running pc into a paperweight.

Well you can take your PC to "PC - fixers" who will help you out...for a fee. :shifty: It's good times for those guys.

Well I'm supposed to be 'one of those guys' its part of my job here.

But the machine affected was my home pc and dident have the adaquate materials to deal with the situation there and tried a bunch of kludge work arounds. After 4 hours of frustration and about 100 reboots I finally just had to walk away from it.

Tonight I will be better armed.

I know I shouldn't feel "Schadenfreude" (sp?) (happiness over others misfortune), but having gone through this recently I just can't help myself. :)

Go figure, I have always used the AVG Free Virus Program, never any issues, just go a refurbished laptop for work, came with McAfee and boom this happens :dead::dead:

**** :damn:

I'm glad Comcast switched from McAfee a couple of months ago(came free with their internet service), but......

they switched to Norton 360. :doh:
I don't have the warm fuzzies about them. I haven't had any problems(nor had I with McAfee), but I've heard some not good things about them before.

:)

Mi oline banker are offering Kaspersky free for a year.....could be handy for the non gameing rig.

I use avast but it uses more than 4000kb.

The ashWebSv.exe uses 87,624K then there are a few other related processes...So I wonder what I am doing wrong.

In small words typed slowly so I can read them, could you give us a paragraph on why you like those two?

I am in the market for some anti-virus/security software and wanna get some learnin.

NOD32 = quiet and unobtrusive.
Lots of settings and ability to customise scans.
Didn't hog resources.
Performed regular auto-updates.
Found several things hidden in archived zip/rar files that were known to be bad or malicious files (other av didn't).
Performed real-time system scanning with unused system resources, as well as the on demand scans etc.
It never let any suspect attachments through my email client - and there were a few from people who's webmail had been compromised.

On the whole it sat there quietly in the background and did the job.

Depending on what was going on out there on the internet, you'd occasionally get 2 or perhaps 3 virus definition updates a day, though usually it was once every few days.

I liked it a lot. The only reason I stopped using it was my retail subscription ran out and I've not had the spare income to pay for a decent AV program @ £29.95
Payment for it was online and was simple and quick too.

http://www.eset.co.uk/Trial/Home

Avast at home, Trend Micro Worry Free for servers, exchange, and workstations at work.

I just downloaded trial version of NOD32 and after installation it turned my smoothly running machine into a slide-show. Starting Firefox took about 10 minutes. No need to say that I have uninstalled it within 15 minutes.
WHAT A PIECE OF CRAP SOFTWARE!

Unbelievable. :nope:

Well, off to try something else. Still have 6 days of Kaspersky's licence left...

Just to let yall know I was able to recover without resotring to a reformat.

Been using Comodo for the past year or so with good results so far. Their firewall software is up there as well.

Curious, I never had any trouble with it. And my machine isn't exactly cutting edge either - 5-6 years old xp pro machine, AMD X2 3800+ 2GB DDR2 RAM.
Did you go through the settings and put the scanning priority to 'normal' instead of maximum?
Also if you had only just installed it, it was probably doing a full in-depth system scan (like most AV software does when you first install it) so everything starts with a 'clean sheet' as it were. If you have big hard drives this can take a little time to accomplish.

Yes it started the scan immediately and I stopped it and yes I have played with settings just to try to figure out why it made my computer so slooooow.
It was, seriously, like watching slide show.
Couldn't figure it out so I uninstalled it. The problem immediately disappeared. :nope:

Got this fixed today :yep:

Nice one :up:

I guess you won't be using it again either :DL

Got mine fixed but will probably continue to use it .. at least untill the subscription runs out.

Same as SW, will wait until the subscription runs out.
Hopefully this decision does not come back to bite me in the
ass :dead::dead: