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Posted by optikl on February 3, 2006, 5:11 pm
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>> Finally uninstalled NAV yesterday (when it annoyed me one time too
>> many by telling me my subscription code from last renewal March 2005
>> was invalid). Installed AVG Free.
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>> But I'm confused about the firewall and would appreciate some advice
>> please. I gather AVG has its own firewall, even though I have the XP
>> Home Firewall switched on? In the Help, I read that I am apparently
>> supposed to "Define Exceptions: Switch to the Exceptions tab with the
>> list of applications that are blocked to access to the Internet. You
>> need to allow access to Internet for all AVG Anti-Virus applications."
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>> However, that seems to be written for XP *SP2* users, because the SP1
>> Firewall settings does not include provision for those exceptions.
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>> Any help would be much appreciated please.
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> Just learned elsewhere that AVG Free doesn't have a Firewall!
> Apparently the Help PDF I was studying is the same for the Free and
> the Pro versions.
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> But, assuming I might eventually pay out for the full version, I'd
> still like to know if/how I'm supposed to make these 'exceptions' in
> XP SP1 please.
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*If* AVG Professional has it's own firewall, then you would just need to
disable the XP firewall, assuming you even wanted to run the AVG version
in its place.
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