Sorry for the trouble, David.
We request you to repair your AVG Antivirus Free as suggested in this article: http://support.avg.com/SupportArticleView?urlname=How-to-repair-AVG and check with the issue.
Today, AVG Free installed its latest version (Vn 17.9.3040) and is now occupying over 49% of the CPU time all of the time on my Windows 7 Pro 64 bit desktop. This is ridiculous and poor programing.
Sorry for the trouble, David.
We request you to repair your AVG Antivirus Free as suggested in this article: http://support.avg.com/SupportArticleView?urlname=How-to-repair-AVG and check with the issue.