Technical problems... resolved

[williamjm]

After spending most of yesterday evening try to fix it, my computer is now back in a state where it actually boots up without immediately restarting, which is nice. The key clue to what was wrong with it came when brucec helpfully asked in a comment to my previous post if I used AVG, which I do. A bit of Googling revealed that AVG's forums were filled

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[fenryng]

So is everything back to normal, or is the AVG still causing problems? Granted, some progress is better than none.....

[williamjm]

AVG apparently issued an updated update which stops their program completing breaking their customer's computers. So it should all work fine now, hopefully.

[sraets]

I recommend Avast instead of AVG if you need a free anti-virus program. I used AVG until about a year ago, but the version they released around that time (I forget the number) was an incredible resource hog. Avast is similar in terms of results but much less resource-heavy (and so far hasn't caused my computer to refuse booting up!).

[williamjm]

I think I might take your advice if I have any more problems with AVG.

[werthead]

I've used Avast for about four years and never had a problem with it, so it gets my vote.