So I was told to bring this over here from here: http://www.techsupportforum.com/foru...w-1192673.html So I'm having a big issue right now getting rid of AVG. It has effectively become adware as all it does is hits me with ads every half hour. The ads are intrusive to other programs, even ones in full screen. They won't go away until you hit the close button and when you do, it forces you out of the program and back to the desktop. It has been causing quite a bit of aggravation so I'm on a mission to remove it. First I uninstalled it using it's own uninstaller (perhaps that was the mistake) and then downloaded the AVG Remover and used that hoping it would remove it entirely. It did not. Even after several runs of the remover, ads were still popping up. The ads stayed intact while the program itself was gone. AVG is officially Adware and I think it should be added to the list.
Going into the task manager, I found 2 processes related to AVG, "avgui.exe" and "AVGSvc.exe". All attempts to end these process result in this:
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I even tried using the Command Prompt:
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So I downloaded Revo Uninstaller to help remove the program. It found quite a bit of leftovers that the remover "missed" and removed them. But it seems even after 3 restarts, it missed whatever is allowing those 2 processes to remain. And it just so happens that apparently those processes are responsible for the ads. So I thought that maybe because they are running they can't be removed even by Revo. So maybe I have to get them to be not running, then remove them. So I went into MSConfig, went to the startup and unchecked anything related to AVG in hope that on my next restart, AVG would not come with it. Again, I was wrong. Even after removing AVG from the startup, it had no problem starting up avgui.exe and showing me those lovely always on top ads.
I don't know what to do from here, other than do a complete format on my PC which I really don't want to do as that means at least a few hours of reinstalling everything just to get rid of one Adware. The one thing I haven't tried is trying to shut it down a delete it in Safe Mode. Though I don't know if that will help. Any help at all in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Going into the task manager, I found 2 processes related to AVG, "avgui.exe" and "AVGSvc.exe". All attempts to end these process result in this:
I even tried using the Command Prompt:
So I downloaded Revo Uninstaller to help remove the program. It found quite a bit of leftovers that the remover "missed" and removed them. But it seems even after 3 restarts, it missed whatever is allowing those 2 processes to remain. And it just so happens that apparently those processes are responsible for the ads. So I thought that maybe because they are running they can't be removed even by Revo. So maybe I have to get them to be not running, then remove them. So I went into MSConfig, went to the startup and unchecked anything related to AVG in hope that on my next restart, AVG would not come with it. Again, I was wrong. Even after removing AVG from the startup, it had no problem starting up avgui.exe and showing me those lovely always on top ads.
I don't know what to do from here, other than do a complete format on my PC which I really don't want to do as that means at least a few hours of reinstalling everything just to get rid of one Adware. The one thing I haven't tried is trying to shut it down a delete it in Safe Mode. Though I don't know if that will help. Any help at all in this matter would be greatly appreciated.