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vprot. exe has encountered a problem, and

11 years ago

needs to close, etc., in a box every time I boot up.
Googled this, and am still in the dark, do not grasp what is being said.
Could someone explain in very plain English what is going on, and should I be concerned about this?
things have been going well for a long time now, spoze it is time for a bump in the road?
Many thanks,

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mikie_gw
11 years ago
AVG anti-virus search protection .... is what most web forums say it belongs to.

That often comes free with other program installs... a junk, spying, ad-serving tool bar probably that's gonna protect you from some advertising by giving you their junky ads instead.

search the filename to see for sure whom it belongs to then uninstall it ?? or re-install it. Because it sounds like its broke. Probably disable it in CCleaner tools startups section.
zep516
11 years ago
Hi shaddy101,

vprot.exe

Added by the AVG search toolbar.

%ProgramFiles%\AVG Secure Search\vprot.exe

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/startups/vprot.exe-27128.html

Bleeping computer has instructions for removing it, let me know if you have trouble.

Joe

This post was edited by zep516 on Thu, Jan 24, 13 at 18:38
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shaddy101
Original Author
11 years ago
Fellas, I forgot to mention, now that I am back and clear thinking somewhat, that I had uninstalled a program that had a lavendar? feather icon in the tray, was for taking pdf files apart. Recommended here in the forum, decided I didn't really need it, so uninstalled, and right after that, this box started showing up. As of now, my icon for AVG does not have an arrow, as suggested in the discussion group at the site Joe sent me to, so am scratching my head now, won'dering what to do, and shakey at that. Is this something I could live with if I had to, or should I worry it will make more trouble for me at this time? Have not had any trouble with AVG, and have been clean that I know of, no CC here anymore, have trimmed down all excess programs I can to make this older machine run what I thought was better.
Thanks to anyone, and so good of you to respond, I am deeply grateful for that.
zep516
11 years ago
Can you do this for us,

Download AdwCleaner http://general-changelog-team.fr/fr/downloads/finish/20-outils-de-xplode/2-adwcleaner
Link below too for your convenience.

Double click on AdwCleaner.exe to run the tool.
***Note: Windows Vista and Windows 7 users:

Right click in the adwCleaner.exe and select "run as adminstrator"

1 Click the Search button.

2 A logfile will automatically open after the scan has finished.

3 Please post the content of that logfile in your next reply.

4 Or you can find the logfile at C:\AdwCleaner[R1].txt.

Click the link below, a box will pop up on the forum here, save the file to the desk top follow instruction above

Joe

Here is a link that might be useful: link
shaddy101
Original Author
11 years ago
OK boys, I just uninstalled the AVG toolbar, and have lost the box!
I hope I don't have to go any farther with this, as I am so cramped for time, trying to get things done for the senior group's VD party in a couple weeks. I will keep an eye on things, and hopefully won't have to venture farther into the world of geekdom, I just am not comfy trying to do some of those things myself, and so I enjoy reading what others have done, and the results they got.
I am going to hope this will end the prob, and if not, will be back. Have I not done enuf now? Or???

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