AVG - no longer free - what now ?

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John_French wrote: »

Use Avast 4.8 - http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html or Anti-Vir - http://www.free-av.com/ as alternatives.

Much better than AVG in my opinion.

Agreed. As a user of AVG for the last 3 years & reading certain negative comments about v8, swapping to Avast was easy & it's UI is great.

HC_2

Amalea wrote: »

I have the free AVG 8.0, and its got the anti-spyware built in. Hate the new link scanner though-disabled it almost straight away.

I used to run AVG anti-spyware manually. With 8.0 does it scan and remove spyware automatically?

Also, why do I not have an icon in the tray as I used to? I get a pop-up when it scans email but there used to be a permanent icon there to show it was running.

Apologies: I know you people are fed up to the back teeth of stupid AVG questions

Cerro

debtworrier wrote: »

Could you give more information about why you think they're better please? I'm looking to change from AVG since upgrading to version 8 trashed my kernel. (Not pleased about all the re-installation I'm having to do, either!)

You mean aside from AVG being bloated piece of "software"? Avast is less resource intensive and is more efficent at scanning. It also tends to score better than AVG in Antivirus tests. AVG looks prettier but thats about it...

I've also noticed that since version 7 of AVG I suddenly got a lot of false positives - which really annoys me, since AVG decides to lock up the file(s) and never let me use them again!

The only downside with Avast is you have to register it (even though registration is free) and you have to do that once a year... small pain for a much better product though!

Inactive

Amalea wrote: »

I have the free AVG 8.0, and its got the anti-spyware built in. Hate the new link scanner though-disabled it almost straight away.

So do I, it is so slow and achieves nothing.;)

derrick

espresso wrote: »

Not according to Grisoft it doesn't! They say 31/12/08.

:rolleyes:

This is written at the bottom of this page, ([FONT=&quot]http://campaign.grisoft.com/uk.special-upgrade-7-8-free-02a-free78cnv/ ),[/FONT] when clicking on "Learn more &Upgrade now" on the pop up; -

© 2008 AVG Technologies, formerly Grisoft


This is the pop up that appears; -

[Deleted User]

AVG 7.5 Pro will be supported until 31/12/2008

AVG 7.5 Free will be supported until 31/05/2008

Easy.

espresso

be_alright wrote: »

AVG 7.5 Pro will be supported until 31/12/2008

AVG 7.5 Free will be supported until 31/05/2008

Easy.

Do you have any proof of that or is it just a guess?

see here

lowbrim

AVG is still free you can download the latest version from the website as usual http://free.grisoft.com/ww.download-avg-anti-virus-free-edition

You have to remove your existing version and load the new one

[Deleted User]

espresso wrote: »

Do you have any proof of that or is it just a guess?

see here

Well, they certainly know how to confuse their users don't they