AVG Anti Spyware

davidsonsl

I followed advise and installed the AVG anti spam and anti spyware, which I have been really happy with, however my 30 days trial is now up and I have no resident shield, any advice?????

alanclose

You could buy it or change to free software. Have you tried Windows Defender

alanwjones

davidsonsl wrote: »

I followed advise and installed the AVG anti spam and anti spyware, which I have been really happy with, however my 30 days trial is now up and I have no resident shield, any advice?????

Your AVG antispyware is still working, all you have to do now is update it manually every so often. Alan.

ravenfire_2

With mine its set to update - there should still be the option on the free one to do that.

espresso

Visit the AVG free download page here.

cwoodham

On the free version of AVG Anti-Spyware you lose the resident scanner after the 30 day trial. You have to get the paid for version to continue to have that. Here's what it says on their website:

This setup contains the free as well as the paid version of AVG Anti-Spyware Free. After the installation, a free 30-day trial version containing all the extensions of the full version will be activated. At the end of the trial, these extensions will be deactivated and the program will turn into a feature-limited freeware version. The purchased license code can be entered at any time.

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/20/lng/us/tpl/v5

davidsonsl

alanclose wrote: »

You could buy it or change to free software. Have you tried Windows Defender

Ah, I think I already have this on my system, but everytime I switch it on and it is booting up I get a warning message which states windows defender could not open please open manually - I keep meaning to look into it but am not sure what to do.

davidsonsl

ravenfire wrote: »

With mine its set to update - there should still be the option on the free one to do that.

How do I do it? I can manually update but don't see any other options.

albertross_2

reinstall it

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

alanclose

davidsonsl wrote: »

Ah, I think I already have this on my system, but everytime I switch it on and it is booting up I get a warning message which states windows defender could not open please open manually - I keep meaning to look into it but am not sure what to do.

I would completely uninstall it from your pc and then download it again from the website and re-install

albertross_2

no, but there is one in XP with SP2 (control panel, security center, firewall).

Zonealarm, Comodo, Kerio, Sygate for more comprehensive ones.