Does this stop the AVG program from trying to log-on to the internet on start-up. I cancel the process but it slows down my shut down process (halt on Blue Screen before shut down for up to five minutes....shuts down eventually so not a problem - in XP)?

Tried the .bat files on AVG Free V9.08. They didn't cure the malware (Yes the frigging popup IS malware: Its the kind of thing we're trying to prevent!)

Had a look in the .bat files and they were only renaming the avgfree_xx.mht (xx depends on the language)

With AVG free there are a load more .mht files.

mht files can be opened with Opera so I had a look. *_All_* the .mht files are adverts.

I renamed all the .mht files to .mht.bak

Still kept getting ads.

Finally I also renamed the file AVGRESF.dll to AVGRESF.dll.bak

I can confirm this works with AVG Free 9.08 under WinXP Home

SUMMARY

1: Close the AVG Interface window if it's open

2: Rename ALL the ,mht files to .mht.bak

3: Rename avgresf.dll to avgresf.dll.bak

This batch file also works for the new AVG 2011.
Thanks!!

This is absolutely working....

Appreciated!

Also works on AVG free 2011 !!!

I knew this existed as i wrote a bat file quite some time ago to do a similar trick with AVG 2005 but could not remember what I did.

This saved me a bit of head work.

AWSOME

OOPS forgot to add Win 7 Ultimate x64

Hey this trick also works for AVG 2011 great!, haha i finally get rid of that awful notification! thanks dude you rock!