AVG 7/8 - general story

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AVG 7/8 - general story Richard Fangnail 04-24-2008
Posted by Richard Fangnail on April 24, 2008, 12:21 pm
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I first bought AVG 7.0 (not free) in Feb 2007 and it worked okay. I
also upgraded to 7.5 a few months ago and it was okay.

Last night I upgraded to 8.0 and I hated it so I uninstalled it. I
didn't like the idea of its having its own firewall and it often asked
me if I should allow/disallow something.

The only AVG big exe file was the one from Feb 2007 so I installed
that. Sometime along the way, it said my AVG was too old to get
updates so there was a "repair" file which I used. I am not clear
what it did.

It now says 7.5 and not 7.0 all over the program and it's acting
quirky. If I click on Test Center it will crash completely. I'm not
sure if it's going to keep updating viruses. The AVG firewall keeps
coming on, although I thought 7.0/7.5 never had one. A scan seems to
work okay. the system tray icon is always black and white.

Some elements of 8 must have remained although I uninstalled it, eh?

Posted by Richard Fangnail on April 24, 2008, 12:25 pm
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I want to add: I have a backup CD from AVG when I got 7.5. I wonder
if I should try to install that.

Posted by Tom [Pepper] Willett on April 24, 2008, 12:39 pm
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Contact AVG support.

:I first bought AVG 7.0 (not free) in Feb 2007 and it worked okay. I
: also upgraded to 7.5 a few months ago and it was okay.
:
: Last night I upgraded to 8.0 and I hated it so I uninstalled it. I
: didn't like the idea of its having its own firewall and it often asked
: me if I should allow/disallow something.
:
: The only AVG big exe file was the one from Feb 2007 so I installed
: that. Sometime along the way, it said my AVG was too old to get
: updates so there was a "repair" file which I used. I am not clear
: what it did.
:
: It now says 7.5 and not 7.0 all over the program and it's acting
: quirky. If I click on Test Center it will crash completely. I'm not
: sure if it's going to keep updating viruses. The AVG firewall keeps
: coming on, although I thought 7.0/7.5 never had one. A scan seems to
: work okay. the system tray icon is always black and white.
:
: Some elements of 8 must have remained although I uninstalled it, eh?



Posted by PA Bear [MS MVP] on April 24, 2008, 12:46 pm
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AVG offers free support for AVG Pro versions, Richard. You paid for it,
too!

Richard Fangnail wrote:
> I first bought AVG 7.0 (not free) in Feb 2007 and it worked okay. I
> also upgraded to 7.5 a few months ago and it was okay.
>
> Last night I upgraded to 8.0 and I hated it so I uninstalled it. I
> didn't like the idea of its having its own firewall and it often asked
> me if I should allow/disallow something.
>
> The only AVG big exe file was the one from Feb 2007 so I installed
> that. Sometime along the way, it said my AVG was too old to get
> updates so there was a "repair" file which I used. I am not clear
> what it did.
>
> It now says 7.5 and not 7.0 all over the program and it's acting
> quirky. If I click on Test Center it will crash completely. I'm not
> sure if it's going to keep updating viruses. The AVG firewall keeps
> coming on, although I thought 7.0/7.5 never had one. A scan seems to
> work okay. the system tray icon is always black and white.
>
> Some elements of 8 must have remained although I uninstalled it, eh?


Posted by Richard Fangnail on April 24, 2008, 1:05 pm
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The problem is, they will probably just tell me to load AVG 8, won't
they? If not, it will probably be something long and complicated to
fix what I have!

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