I am very simpathetic of your case (we have had simmalar problems) and dial-
up. i think it is a poor programming problem on avg's part. you can alwys go
to stores with free wi-fi for your more taxing internet jobs. i recomen
seitching to Hitman or AntiVir.

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Joyce A <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I have AVG Paid 9.0 on this eMachines running Win XP, SP3 with Mozilla
> Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird.  For the past five days, the automatic AVG
> scanner has been stalling at a point some 236,000 files into the scan
> (ordinarily scans more than 300K files).   The object where it stalls is
> C;\Documents and Settings\Jan.YOUR-F786CD9407\Local Settings\Application
> Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles... and when it reaches that point, it starts
> to overclock my computer.   I have to restart the computer to get rid of the
> overclock.
> Yes, I have tried to access the AVG helpline but they are not much help;
> they want a bunch of files from my computer that I cannot send over this
> slow dial-up connection.
> Can anyone help?  Can I safely delete these Firefox profiles and restore
> them later?  Come to think of it, this problem started just after I allowed
> the latest Firefox update, 3.5.13.  Could it be a compatibility issue?
>  Thanks in advance for your help!
>
> Joyce in SE Ohio
>
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>



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