The Microsoft Scammer called again. This time he claimed my computer was issuing improper messages over the internet. I recognized his voice, he calls regularly, and I had some fun calling him names. After the scammer went away, it did occur to me that it had been a while since I ran a virus scan on Trusty Desktop. Next I found that good old Malwarebytes, my anti virus of choice, no longer supports Windows XP. Arghh. Some net cruising brought me to AVG antivirus. It downloaded, it scanned, it didn't find anything. After the scan run, things seemed a little slower. Task Manager showed three or four new tasks, sucking up RAM and CPU time.
Worse was to come. I booted up next morning and clicking on desktop icons no longer worked. Task manager showed some AVG component hogging all the CPU time. Task Manager could no kill the offending AVG process.
Install and Remove Programs from Control Panel didn't work. Deleting the AVG file directory in Program Files didn't work. Deleting from MS-DOS didn't work either.
A little web searching with Duck Duck Go showed me that I was not alone. It did point me to a special AVG remover program, written by AVG themselves. That worked. Good riddance to AVG. It is a RAM hog and a CPU hog that is active and slowing my machine all the time. At times slowing to the point I thought it was broken.
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