   | Senior Member with 294 posts. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Greenville, SC Experience: Beginner | | AVG message saying to reboot every 10 minutes Does anyone know why I would be getting an AVG message every 10 to 20 minutes?
My AVG Icon in the system tray has an exclamation point. When I click the Icon it says:
Update requires computer restart, do you really want to restart?
So I restart...
It then gives the message after the restart every 10 to 20 minutes.
Any ideas or updates anyone knows about for this issue?
Michael |  | Distinguished Member with 9,445 posts. | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Houston, Texas Experience: Learning | | I had a pc with this yesterday . . I uninstalled AVG and reinstalled it and the problem went away | | | Senior Member with 294 posts. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Greenville, SC Experience: Beginner | | After googling the issue I did what you said.
No luck, I still does it?
Any ideas?
Michael | | | Distinguished Member with 9,445 posts. | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Houston, Texas Experience: Learning | | You uninstalled AVG . . Restarted and installed the newest version??? . . I'm out of ideas | | | Senior Member with 294 posts. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Greenville, SC Experience: Beginner | | Yes, that is what I did! I know, I feel the same way...
Anytime I have done this in the past with other programs, it seemed to work???
Michael |  | Distinguished Member with 5,020 posts. | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: S.F. Bay Area, CA Experience: Intermediate | | Sounds like the update process was having an issue it couldn't recover from and always wanted to have the system rebooted to complete the update process. Uninstalling and re-installing would theoretically fix this by clearing whatever error or issue that confused AVG, in the first place.
Peace... | | | Junior Member with 1 posts. | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Experience: Advanced | | daniels012, did you find a fix for this?
I just started having this exact problem yesterday.
Did anyone find a solution for it? | | | Senior Member with 294 posts. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Greenville, SC Experience: Beginner | | No, No luck so far!
Michael |  | Distinguished Member with 2,833 posts. | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Nebraska Experience: Intermediate | | I find that the AVG 8.0 automatically updates when I boot up/go on line (dsl). So my guess that keeps coming up because it has updated and it needs to be rebooted. Sometimes when our security programs update it makes a reboot necessary.
vicks | | | Senior Member with 294 posts. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Greenville, SC Experience: Beginner |
10-Jul-2008, 03:52 PM
#10 | Oh no doubt! I understand that, why should I have to reboot every 10 minutes. I did it 4 times in a row just to see if it would stop....
Still does it!
Michael | | | Distinguished Member with 5,020 posts. | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: S.F. Bay Area, CA Experience: Intermediate |
10-Jul-2008, 03:58 PM
#11 | daniels012, how long has AVG 8 been behaving like this for you?
Peace... | | | Senior Member with 294 posts. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Greenville, SC Experience: Beginner |
10-Jul-2008, 04:02 PM
#12 | | | | | Distinguished Member with 5,020 posts. | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: S.F. Bay Area, CA Experience: Intermediate |
10-Jul-2008, 04:06 PM
#13 | I don't have access to AVG 8 right now but I would see if you can locate some kind of AVG error or message log, possibly in the update manager. If AVG is having problems updating itself, it might be logging what the problem is. When I get access to a machine with AVG 8, I'll see if I can locate such a log and I'll report back here.
Peace... |  | Senior Member with 1,122 posts. | | |
10-Jul-2008, 04:08 PM
#14 | Sorry I don`t have an answer to your specific avg problem, but I can tell you what I did about avg 8. Been an avg user for 8 years, with no problems, but after seeing all the various ranges of avg problems users are having not only on this forum, but others, I removed avg 7.5, and installed Avira free. I have had it for about a month now with no problems. It does have one slightly annoying popup when you go to update, but all you have to do is X out of that window, one click does it. I can put up with that very easily compared to all the problems that avg 8 users are having. As far as avg goes, was a great antivirus program, but just like anything else when someone gets it right, someone else has to try to improve. | | | Senior Member with 294 posts. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Greenville, SC Experience: Beginner |
16-Jul-2008, 03:01 PM
#15 | I would love to find a solution for this one. AVG has always been a very good product.
Michael |  THIS THREAD HAS EXPIRED.
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