[pchelpers] Re: avg shut down

John, I had similar thoughts, esspecially about the virus. Anyway, I changed 
the PSU, I had one lying around and also took off AVG and installed Eks 
favourite, Antivir.
I watched it for two hours, running all manner of programs, and scanning the 
PC and it was fine when I came away. I await with baited breath, in case i 
receive an email telling me it's gone wrong again *S*

Billy


> Billyus Eximius wrote:
>> every time I run this scan the computer shuts its self down. When I 
>> unplug and put the plug back in to power up it reboots I won't use avg7.5 
>> until you tell me. Could this programme cause the shut down or be part of 
>> the bigger picture?
>> This message came from a friend, does anyone know why this should happen? 
>> The PC has been loosing power off and on for a week or so, and needs the 
>> plug taking out and putting in before it will boot again?
>>
>> Billy
> I have a feeling about this one. It needs more elimination testing. One
> possible cause could be a loose heat sink on the CPU. There are also a
> few virus infections that shut the system down after 30 seconds or so.
> Does the activity depend on AVG running? To establish that, you could
> try performing maintainance without AVG to see if it does this again.
>
> If it doesn't, you could try another anti virus (Bitdefender V10 for
> example).



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