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Optimize a Computer: Evaluate Report From AVG Program

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Summary: When optimizing a computer, use the report from the AVG anti-virus program to evaluate potential threats to a hard drive. Evaluate a report from the AVG anti-virus program with the tech tips in this free video on computer maintenance from a computer repair professional.

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Bill Powers has been working on computers for more than 20 years. He has created DOS, Linux and Windows programs for customers. Powers is currently an IT technician for companies in...read more

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"In this segment we are going to absolutely do a congratulations issue with the antivirus program and AVG is now finished and we will see what happened right here. The first thing it had another screen up here that said no threats found and here is the test report and you'll see what it was able to do and we'll close it. If we found a threat it will tell you how to put it in a vault and get it out of harms way and here you go and you say this is the registration issue and you can say next on that. The computer is protected. We have got that going so you say continue and this is the absolute so you have the choice to now scan the whole computer at this particular point. You can schedule it and you can just scan so the area so supposed that you download some things off of the internet which the antivirus program is absolutely down and this window right here and it is working but if you wanted to just check it again or if some friend brings you something over and it is on a CD you can just absolutely scan that CD and you can pick any select area. Again you can check for updates during the day if you want to, every time it starts it always checks when your computer is off and if it did find a virus it would put it in this vault here and you can always click that and you can see what is in there and you can actually make a decision to delete it or do whatever you want to do. So see here is something over here in the virus vault already. There are a couple of things here and you can go in for further detail or you can delete these things out here and absolutely isolate it in the machine. They'll talk about when these things got in there and everything like that so this is a great antivirus alternative and again it does not take a lot of system resources. The bigger antivirus program, they give you a lot of thrills but they can take up a lot of system resources and slow the machine down."

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