Hey guys I was wondering if I could get some help on a question. When I run my AVG it gives me like a million virus updates but it can't remove them. I will post more info as needed lol but you will have to tell me what to look for.

AVG should have delt with the viruses once it found them and just tell you that it found them.

Are you telling it to run a full scan or just the basic scan?

While we are talking about Virus and Virus scanner in this Topic, I want to kind of hijack and use this to advise everyone to have a decent Antivirus and Firewall running on their PCs.

Not having any protection here is highly careless. A lot of sites have trojans, viruses or even just malicious cookies that install themselves on your PC without you ever noticing it. This is especially true for sites offering porn! It may not only lead to you having to reinstall your Operating System, it can go as far as getting confidential Data from your PC, get access to your webcam (with videos being posted around the web, it became quite the sick "sport" in the past couple of years) without your noticing, getting password to your favourite Online Game or Site or theft of Credit Card information.

AVG is a decent free solution as is Avast! in addition to Microsoft Security Essentials. This is the bare minimum of protection you should have. If you want a better solution I'd advise Bitdefender Total Security, which not only has extensive options if you're a pro, it also has very good standard configurations, guides you through everything and identifies security risks in your windows settings, is very low on ressource, has a mode called gaming mode (which pauses the virus scanner whenever you tab into a game and enables it back when you are out of it) and a lot of 1 click solutions if something goes wrong (including a one click reinstall if the virus damages the scanner). The latest Kaspersky also seems to be quite good, although Bitdefender has been winning most awards 3 years in a row now.

Both have 30 day trial versions available on their manufacturers webpage.

In addition you should always have some kind of Malware Scanner, like Malwarebytes Anti-Malware or Ad-Aware and Anti-Rootkit like Avast!.

Even though these programs offer a decent amount of protection, you are never 100% secure. But if someone wants to steal from you, you can either have a thin wooden door with the key left in it or have a steel door locked with multiple high security locks. Guess what is harder to open ...

Naaas....Microsoft Security Essentials has a pretty low detection rate xD
Avast also has this 'gaming mode' which activates if you start something fullscreen ;)

Your point being? I said it is free, the "bare minimum", "in addition to Avast! (not running one or the other, both at the same time was meant)", the point that any protection is better than none and my recommendation if you want better protection.

Additionally I never said Avast! doesn't have something like a game mode, only that Bitdefender does. Avast! is also quite systemheavy, which Bitdefender isn't, but I don't want to make it complicated and compare 20-30 Antivirus programs with each other.

That seems odd. What do you mean exactly when you say it can't remove them? Does it try and give you an error? Does it try, look like it works, and then they just end up still being there?

Also if the virus is a high level risk factor AVG needs you to restart your computer for it to fix them

It says it cannot remove them an that it is a registry error or something

Either AVG needs to be reinstalled or you need to deFrag your computer.

Ok

Can you post a screenshot of the screen that you're getting this information from?

AVG's served me fine since i kicked those shitbuckets at McAfee to the curb in, i want to say, 2009. Very few virus attacks on my 2008 Dell, and nothing major that i can remember (think i had one scare, maybe?) on my current 2012 Acer.

I can try. How should I post it? I don't think I can just copy and paste

Just hit print screen and upload your clipboard to an image hosing site, or just use puush.

Ok thanks!