Game installation: temporary disablement AV ?

[silkie]

I have Windows XP with AVG.
Do I need to disable temporarily this av to install games?
Game instructions tell me to right click the icon and select Close/Disable but I cant find that option

[GX1_Man]

Quit AVG Control Center is the choice with the right click. You may not need to do this, but that's how it's done. AVG will restart the next time the computer is rebooted.

[silkie]

Got it.

Thanks very much GX1_Man - easy when you know how.

[GX1_Man]

You're welcome, and thanks for posting back. We like success stories too!  

[Raptor]

Since AVG Free only scans on demand, it doesn't need to be disabled.

Only scanners that scan files when they are extracted, altered or scan in real time should be disabled when installing patches, drivers and any other type of update.

[Fed]

AVG Resident Shield runs in realtime but I'd be very surprised if it interfered with the installation of your game. Norton, another matter.

[patio]

Resident Shield and the active e-mail scan also rely on certain Windows services...depending on what services this game needs/uses this might become an install issue just because Gates is Gates.

[Raptor]

Resident Shield doesn't seem to do much at all if you're using Windows XP. Apart from complain when not being installed.

Can't get the E-mail scanner to work with Gmail and Thunderbird.

[patio]

Raptor if you are using AVG and TBird the default settings in the e-mail scanner are by default not set up properly...why AVG does this i don't know.
Open AVG Control Center, clik on e-mail scanner and select Properties. Set the pop3 and smtp settings to those in TBird and you should be good to go.
For example my pop3 setting is port 110 : AVG default at first was 10110.
Again i don't know why this is but it worked for me.
You can also set up your GMail acct in TBird. Use the default pop3 ( incoming ) server for that acct. and set the outgoing to GMail's specs which are listed on your GMail page.

[Fed]

Raptor, would you like me to send you some viruses to test it with after you get setup?

[Raptor]

I've read several guides and even more complaints of people who can't get it to work.

It simply seems to stall and never let through the E-mail when it attempts to scan the incoming E-mail (TTL 995, I believe) port. I haven't tried for quite a while, though.

Are you saying you got it to work? What other settings did you change?

[patio]

All i had to change in mine was the correct POP3 and SMTP ports. Is TBird the only e-mail client you are running currently ?

[Raptor]

Yes. With Gmail. Which doesn't use the default ports, it uses TTL.

I did not install the E-mail scanner at the moment, though. Is there an easy way to add it without having to reinstall AVG Free entirely?

[patio]

I had to un-install and re-install to get it to behave with TBird...
There is more info in the below link but i would still check those port settings.

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5499/lng/us/tpl/v5