It's a breeze to edit your scan time. Open the AVG Interface Click on Computer Scanner (left side) Click Manage Scheduled Scans (bottom) Click Scheduled Scan (top inside of the white window) Click Edit scan schedule (bottom center of white window) Make sure that there is a check next to Enable this task (it should already be checked) Select Run at a specific time interval (center left of the white window) Choose the days that you want it to run Click save (bottom of white window) That's it! Pam

You're welcome. It was a question I never thought about before because I only use anti-malware programs that I know for sure have a good reputation so I didn't think twice about letting them loose on my machine. But the issue you were concerned about -- and worse -- could happen if one downloaded a fake anti-malware program, like those that throw up a warning screen claiming to have found all kinds of infections on your machine when you visit a compromised web site. Since they often seem legitimate, or even claim to be part of Windows, people get fooled. As long as you stick with the legitimate ones and download them from reliable web sites, you'll be fine...they're trustworthy. One added precaution: whenever I initially download even a trusted piece of software I always save it and run a scan on it before I run it.

I went to and read the "linux.oneandoneis2.org" site, and.... gee, don't take it too personal, but, what a crock of s^^^.... It really doesn't have much to offer, other than to act as some sort of a mouth piece for a large proprietary OS systems vendor, there is very, very little useful to offer there.... Dang Zep, have you ever actually installed and/or used a Linux variant in the past say....year and a half, maybe?? Or even ever? And then there is this: >>>> "If you really want the security and performance of a Unix-based OS but with a customer-focussed attitude and an world-renowned interface: Buy an Apple Mac. OS X is great." The MacOS, while pretty good and a more secure by design system than MSWin, is damn sure over priced, though not as over priced as MSWin-anything, and, is neither the "user friendly" nor the "security" solution panacea that it is commonly believed and yak yakked about by folks who really don't know what they are talking about claim it is. And as to: >>>> "But don't get Linux: It will not do what you want it to do." If you want to appear to be actually informed and knowledgeable about a topic...Try another.... your ignorance on this topic, is little more, nay, nothing more, than an embarassment >>>> "But don't get Linux: It will not do what you want it to do." Do whatever you wish to, just don't pretend to know anything about something you obviously have liottle to absolutely no knowledge of....... I'm done with this subject, aw heck....I'm done with the whole GW thing....well, maybe a few garden forums, but when it comes to such subject matters reliant on common sense and actual knowledge of a subject, especially any such requiring anything requiring any sort of actual knowledge or use of any engineering type skills, this is damn sure NOT the place to be Good luck though with all the wonderful issues and problems that folks using a Linux system never get to experience.... Pretty much makes you not anywhere near as smart as you wish you were, doesn't it?

Do Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring up your Task Manager, click on the Processes tab, and click once or twice on the CPU tab at the top of the listings: this will show what process is chewing up the most resources (which will probably be the culprit). Also, look at the CPU Usage line at the bottom of Task Manager and see what the % Usage is. Then report back here on what you found out.