Hello Doug,
I understand the inconvenience. Please provide the screenshot [http://support.avg.com/SupportArticleView?urlname=How-to-create-a-screenshot] of the threat message to check and assist further.
A virus message or "An application is requesting access to a Protected item. (Plus some strange characters - different characters each time it starts) " appears when I start AVG Antivirus Free on my old XP laptop. I saw a post that recommended to do the repair routine. Did that but after next restart I got the same situation - freezes at 5% and virus message appears again. Any thoughts?
Hello Doug,
I understand the inconvenience. Please provide the screenshot [http://support.avg.com/SupportArticleView?urlname=How-to-create-a-screenshot] of the threat message to check and assist further.
Doug, For your info, just in case that you are unaware, you can post the screenshot here in your topic. Click on 'Answer' & then click on the 'Image' [mountain symbol] & follow the instructions.
AVG Guru