Question AVG update required ?

[PaulDesmond]

I get pop up messages from AVG telling me about bad registry problems and outdated drivers. I see this as a way of getting me to upgrade to a paid version. I am now told that there are 2 realtek outdated drivers. PCIe GBE Family controller and RTL8192EE Wirekess lan 802.11n PCI-E NIC.

Can I just download these myself anyway? How do I do this?

 

[NedSmelly]

If it was up to me, I'd check Windows Update for any new WHQL hardware drivers. If it does, then update; if t doesn't, and everything works, then I'd ignore AVG.

Then I'd uninstall AVG Free and turn on Windows Security.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Can I just download these myself anyway? How do I do this?

What is your motherboard make/model ?

 

[PaulDesmond]

Asrock H610M-HVS/M.2 R2.0 Motherboard

 

[NedSmelly]

https://www.asrock.com/MB/Intel/H610M-HVSM.2 R2.0/index.asp#Download

 

[PaulDesmond]

Thanks. Just what I needed. Will save this with the PC profile.

 

[PaulDesmond]

Hi. I keep getting this software is trying to alter a file. I have run AVG and it tells me I am clean apart from 14 performance issues including System junk, Broken registry and Programs slowing me down but no virus or malware. I have to pay them £23.88.

There are no viruses but I keep getting this. Any ideas on this?

EXTRA
Zang_AV is supposed to be made by checkpoint. I used to have a trust keyboard that used this checkpoint. I have zone alarm with files "ZoneAlarmNGSetup_ZANG_FW_FR_AR8ZNP"

 

[rgd1101]

scan with another anti malware?

 

[COLGeek]

As suggested earlier, you should strongly consider dumping AVG altogether and just using Defender. It is free and effective.

Please don't create another thread on this same basic topic. Thank you.

 

[Priscus]

I regularly get notified by security apps that I need to update drivers, and if I click their link it directs me to purchase paid versions of their offering, which as a casual user, I do not need.

However, I do then look online at the current drivers for the devices concerned.

And sometimes I do need to update, and sometimes I do not need to!

 

[Priscus]

Is Defender effective though?

I have occasionally had Malwarebytes find rootkits which Defender did not detect.

Also, notification panel frequently informs me that Defender had found and dealt with threats: very good, but I don't understand as the machine had not been online, otherwise connected, or had any media input since the previous scan!

I have always just attributed this to Microsoft's hype. Am I wrong?

 

[COLGeek]

I have used Defender for years. Zero issues. Same for most of the moderators on site and we are all very advanced users of tech.

No anti-virus/anti-malware solution will protect you from all threats, all of the time. Especially if users do dangerous things and go to sites where they shouldn't be.

 

[Calab]

I get pop up messages from AVG telling me about bad registry problems and outdated drivers. I see this as a way of getting me to upgrade to a paid version. I am now told that there are 2 realtek outdated drivers. PCIe GBE Family controller and RTL8192EE Wirekess lan 802.11n PCI-E NIC.

Can I just download these myself anyway? How do I do this?

How did you get this pop-up. Are you sure it's from AVG and not from malware trying to trick you into loading their spyware/virus?

For updating any of your hardware drivers, just go to the manufacturers site and download them, or use Windows Update.