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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fba827" data-source="post: 4229183" data-attributes="member: 807">Virus/trojans/etc can do many weird things on computers.  But there is a good possibility that  it was pumping out so much information that it was saturating his net connection and thereby making it unusable (meaning any website/etc he tried to connect to would always result in epic fail).  Or it otherwise some how modified/effected the tcp/ip stack (or otherwise just eating up processor power if he wasn't able to do anything beyond processor non-intensive computer operations).    I'm not saying that is what it was, but that is always a possibility.I used to be in charge of a medium-sized ISP and when I would get the weekly reports from customer service heads, when it comes to connectivity issues, the number 2 cause of problems was some how related to viruses issues.   (the first being settings, like someone changed a setting or was trying to connect a new computer, etc).As far as AVG -- I have used AVG 7.X on many computers and have used it for many years.  I've never found it to be overly intrusive or troublesome (in fact, considerably less so than several big names that you would have to pay for).  I don't have any experience with AVG 8.X.Bottom line: Presuming 8.x is similar to 7.x, it can't hurt.  If you do plan on putting on other anti-virus stuff on that computer then you should uninstall AVG (having more than one anti-virus thing is not recommended by software manufacturers).  Having said all that, yes, the man should have asked first.But, in the grand scheme of things, you're fine. And uninstall it if you feel itNote: If you do keep it on, AVG (at least in 7) had two daily scheduled activities -- the daily update and the daily computer scan. You may want to adjust the timing of those things that they don't happen during your personal 'peek' usage time.  The update causes a momentary popup to inform you that it is updating (that lasts for 30 seconds or until you click okay) so that may distract the user if they're busy.  And the daily scan does use resources (it's scanning all your files after all) and it could take a while depending on the number of files you have so it could slow down other things you may be trying to do if they are intensive applications.</blockquote>

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