Comments on: Turn Off Real-time Spyware Scanning by AVG Antivirus

By: Ashutosh Mishra

Ashutosh Mishra — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:11:00 +0000

@ Ander
Thanks for pointing this out. This feature has been slightly modified in AVG 8.5, and now reads “Report potentially unwanted programs…”. So if you mark this one off, ONLY the reporting and not the active scanning will stop. AVG seems to have removed the ability to turn off spyware monitoring. Anyway, AVG’s spyware detection is pretty good, so you can actually turn off your other antispyware.

By: Ander

Ander — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:20:00 +0000

I followed your directions and cleared that “Scan potentially unwanted programs…” checkbox in AVG’s control panel. However, Security Center still shows AVG in its “Spyware and other malware protection” section (and this is after several reboots). Is it possible this no longer works with the current AVG version?

By: Ashutosh Mishra

Ashutosh Mishra — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:13:00 +0000

@Anonymous
That’s why the title reads includes the term “real-time spyware scanning” and not just spyware scanning. I personally feel Windows Defender is a better alternative to AVG’s built-in real-time spyware scanner, because the former also monitors so many other stuff like auto-start changes etc. which the latter doesn’t.

By: Bollywood Master

Bollywood Master — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:27:00 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:34:00 +0000

Hi,
the above information is not quite correct. The AVG scanning engine is still active and does all the necessary analysis, it only does not _report_ the potentially unwanted applications. It is recommended to disable other anti-spyware applications, especially Windows Defender can slow down the system when used together with other AV suites