Attack of the AVG!

[BellGoRiiing]

It is I again, yes...and um, yeah...its my annoying computer again too. Anyways I'm pretty sure everyone knows about AVG, the popular anti-virus program seen everywhere and all that. Well it was working just fine, no problems, no locking up frequently for a couple of seconds when surfing the web and all that. Well once I heard about a new version coming out I decided to get it, I removed the old version and installed the new...well what do you know?! It looks prettier, it seems to work just great, so I go online and guess what. My internet seems to be a lot slower (even though I have dial-up, it doesn't run this slow), it also appears that my cookies keep getting erased since the same page when visited multiple times takes a while to load...and the whole browser (which is Firefox by the way) frequently locks up for a several seconds which is highly annoying...Anyone with the new version of AVG know how to fix this? Or should I just uninstall it for right now until I get high speed? (whenever that will be, lol)

I wouldn't mind taking it off for a while since I have Spybot as well. Thanks.
That is all.

 

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I'm not sure whether AVG 8 is to blame for Firefox's performance issues of late, but two things to try are to disable AVG's link scanner from the AVG control panel and to run Firefox 3 rc1, which you can get from www.firefox.com, it runs much faster and more stable than FFox 2.  Let me know if either of those things or both help you at all.

 

[BellGoRiiing]

Oh, didn't know there was a 3 out yet...Well I guess I'll try updating then. (I tried the Link scanner before already and it didn't work)
Thanks, I'll let you know if 3 will help.

It's working fine now...3 says that its incompatible with AVG's features but I don't care, their programs both work fine..don't need AVG's shield feature things anyways, lol.