Free firewalls and anti-virus software

superscaper

Old_John wrote:

Well - you guys have got me thoroughly confused now.
Where are stickies.
Is AVG free or not?

Thanks.

All the threads at the top of the forum are prefixed with "sticky" are there for a reason. There is one specifically for AVG, which sra put a bit dot in front of to catch everyone's attention specifically because so many people either ask what's up with AVG or mistakenly say that it will no longer be free.

John_Gray

I've run ZoneAlarm free firewall and AVG free antivirus software (now 7.5, [evilgrin]) together on one PC for a year or two without problems...

John

Rikki

John_Gray wrote:

I've run ZoneAlarm free firewall and AVG free antivirus software (now 7.5, [evilgrin]) together on one PC for a year or two without problems...

John

I have Zone Alarm Pro and it contains Anti Virus protection too. I prefer AVG so I have the Anti Virus part turned off, but before I did there was a conflict between the two.

alanobrien

Old_John wrote:

Well - you guys have got me thoroughly confused now.
Where are stickies.
Is AVG free or not?

Thanks.

Yes it is, it just becomes a little more annoying in the new version when it insists on running a scan every time it downloads an update.

There are alternatives like Avast and kaspersky just do a search for them if you dont want to stick with AVG.

Rikki

alanobrien wrote:

Yes it is, it just becomes a little more annoying in the new version when it insists on running a scan every time it downloads an update.

There are alternatives like Avast and kaspersky just do a search for them if you dont want to stick with AVG.

Windows Defender is the worse culprit for this. Since it upgraded to defender and even though I have my scan timetabled in. It just starts to scan as and when it feels like it. :mad: It drives me mad.

MGC

Well I have had AVG on my pc now for a couple of years and it works fine! It also works along side Norton. However, I have recently been receiving emails from AVG informing me that my FREE subscription will end in February 2007. Has anyone else had an email of this type? Just a bit confused here as Martin is telling people to download AVG, as it is free.

superscaper

Rikki wrote:

Windows Defender is the worse culprit for this. Since it upgraded to defender and even though I have my scan timetabled in. It just starts to scan as and when it feels like it. :mad: It drives me mad.

I think it's because it contains Microsoft's new patented Ultra-Annoyance 2.0 (randomly do something it wasn't asked that is laborious and distracting) technology

superscaper

MGC wrote:

Well I have had AVG on my pc now for a couple of years and it works fine! It also works along side Norton. However, I have recently been receiving emails from AVG informing me that my FREE subscription will end in February 2007. Has anyone else had an email of this type? Just a bit confused here as Martin is telling people to download AVG, as it is free.

Oh very funny. :cool:

MGC

Well what's so funny?

superscaper

MGC wrote:

Well what's so funny?

Ok you asked for it: STICKY