nrabus
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o.k. background of the situation:
Mt pc had been very sluggish doing anything (yes everything including for example, taking 15 seconds to delete very small file),
I have run sereral AVs - malwarebytes iobit, avg, avira, avast, and sysinternals process utilities.
iobit uninstaller was hanging when uninstalling AVira. It would complete using the program's own installer, but hang when deep cleaning.
I manually used windows explorer to delete the Avira folders. Some items could be deleted but not others. I noticed 52,000 update log files for Avira, by looking at the name of the log files, saw that Avira was trying to update evry couple seconds unsuccessfully and writing a log file every time.I am unanble to end the update processes in taskmanager and the administrator command prompt "taskkill" onlky gets some of them, but the process rejuvenates immediately.
I researched and read that recently Avira changed so that a user could not disable automatic updates.
2 thoughts:
1. Reinstall Avira so I can stop the auto updates
2. Download a program to zap any process.
Thoughts?
Thank you.
Mt pc had been very sluggish doing anything (yes everything including for example, taking 15 seconds to delete very small file),
I have run sereral AVs - malwarebytes iobit, avg, avira, avast, and sysinternals process utilities.
iobit uninstaller was hanging when uninstalling AVira. It would complete using the program's own installer, but hang when deep cleaning.
I manually used windows explorer to delete the Avira folders. Some items could be deleted but not others. I noticed 52,000 update log files for Avira, by looking at the name of the log files, saw that Avira was trying to update evry couple seconds unsuccessfully and writing a log file every time.I am unanble to end the update processes in taskmanager and the administrator command prompt "taskkill" onlky gets some of them, but the process rejuvenates immediately.
I researched and read that recently Avira changed so that a user could not disable automatic updates.
2 thoughts:
1. Reinstall Avira so I can stop the auto updates
2. Download a program to zap any process.
Thoughts?
Thank you.