I've used several different virus scanners over the years, and none of 
them have done an initial scan at start up. This doesn't mean that most 
don't do this though, since my sampling size is so small, and of course, 
it's possible that AVG 8 does this.

I'm still using AVG 7.5, and it has a setting where you can have it 
perform a system scan at the next start up if you missed the regularly 
scheduled system scan. I turned this option off myself. You might want 
to look around in AVG 8 to see if it has the same setting. You might 
also want to check and see when AVG is doing it's regularly scheduled 
system scan. I think AVG 7.5 was somewhere around 7PM, which coincided 
with when I usually powered up my home system after work. I changed this 
to run in the middle of the night, when I wasn't typically on the 
system. Again, you might want to check out AVG 8 and see when it's 
configured to perform it's regular scans.

Sorry I'm not more help, but like I said, I'm still running AVG 7.5. 
Hopefully this might give you some ideas on where to look. Maybe someone 
running AVG 8 can help determine if these options are still there and 
what their defaults are.

George Bell wrote:
> Most virus checkers do an initial system scan when the
> system is first powered up.  I'd say that was most likely
> what's happening here.
>
> George.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [VICUG-L] AVG working, but doing a strange thing
> when computer starts
>
> Hi everyone, I have been using AVG 8 for a week now and like
> it, but I
> have noticed  that when I first turn on my computer it is
> slow, and after a
> few minutes I'll hear the little click like IE makes when it
> goes to a new
> page, and then it speeds back up.  Anyone know what this is?
> I've double
> checked to see and make sure that AVG is running and I only
> have the
> applications opened I'm using.
>
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