Latest AVG Auto-update Is No Boot Nightmare For All Win 64bit OS

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If you're running a 64 bit Win, uninstall AVG immediately before you reboot!

http://forums.cnet.com/avg-forum/?tag=rb_content;forums06

The latest automatic update bluescreens Win 64 OSs and gets you into a boot loop that stops at AVGIDSEH.SYS. No way to escape from it. Apparently it's happening to most 64 bit Win installs.

The AVG site tells you do download

http://forums.avg.com/ww-en/avg-free-forum?sec=thread&act=show&id=94159

An AVG Emergency Boot Disk that can be loaded onto CD or USB key and if you follow the instructions... guess what... yup... back to the endless boot loop.

I'm running the Win Utility diagnostics now and it's telling me that the SMART Long Self Test alone is going to run 131 minutes... and yeah... guess what... no way to escape it.

AVG has admitted that it's a faulty upgrade that's blowing up the systems. How many millions of PCs run AVG and 64 bit OSs? Nobody beta tested this crap?

WTF??????????????????????

:pfff:
 
^Microsoft security essentials is a free AV guard created by the same company/people that created your operating system, wouldn't it make sense that they know the OS and how it works better then others and therefore create a product much better and refined :). BTW I have Avira free and it works great, i used to have AVG and it sucked, switched to avira like over a year ago and haven't had a single virus since.