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Ken Underwood
05-09-2008, 21:16
Hi everyone!
I'm new in here and thought I'd ask about an odd thing I noticed to do with pcguard.
Directly after formatting my hard drive and installing XP and SP2 I went to the VM site to get my pcguard.
This progressed smoothly, but some time later I noticed, in the event log, regular and numerous error messages from a thing called sidebyside.
After a bit of rooting around I found a MS update for c++ 2005, which sorted that out.
Next, I found in help and support, tools, my computer information, installed microsoft software, that there were nearly 2000 items in the startup group!
I think it's to do with system files exe dll ocx (etc) in i386 which are being protected by pcguard, but I'm not sure.
Anyway, to cut the woffle, anyone who's got pcguard, have a look on your PC for either of these things, because having clean-installed I don't think it can be me alone that's suffering these problems.

Axegrinder
05-09-2008, 21:22
PCguard is rather heavy on system resources, thus not liked by many round here, there are better free antiviruses around such as avast or avira. ;)

Ken Underwood
05-09-2008, 21:27
agreed but I don't want to have to start over with something new and it's not all that slow.

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so do we have any ideas?

whydoIneedatech
05-09-2008, 22:19
agreed but I don't want to have to start over with something new and it's not all that slow.

---------- Post added at 21:27 ---------- Previous post was at 21:24 ----------

so do we have any ideas?
Remove it and replace it with AVG8 much better.;)

Ken Underwood
05-09-2008, 22:33
Look, I know pcguard doesn't have a good rep, but I want to find out what's going on in my PC, regardless of how long it takes me to get around to offing pcguard and taking up with some credible AV like AVG8.
Does no-one have any idea about this?

whydoIneedatech
05-09-2008, 22:47
Here is a link to Wikipedia that tells you what c++ 2005 is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSVC

Ken Underwood
05-09-2008, 22:58
got it

whydoIneedatech
05-09-2008, 23:01
got it
Noticed