Re: AVG free no more?

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"Harry Syme" <h.syme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I notice that the free version of AVG has now disappeared from their site.

I also notice, that if you previously downloaded the installation
package,
it no longer installs, instead it tells you its expired, and directs you
to the pay for programs !

Unless you set the clock back a year!

Any good free alternatives worth considering?




Thats weird. Usually to find it I used to type "avg free" in their search
then the link was top of the list. In the past week I have downloaded it 3
times but yesterday when I tried the search "no results" ??? I then tried
the link from within the out of date install file and nowhere to be
seen was
the free version.

so made a wrong assumption.

Thanks for the heads up guys!

Just out of curiousity, I tried a google search using both avg free and
"avg free" as search terms. The first hit, (AVG Free Advisor.......) did
the job (entirely as expected!).

In fact, I was quite surprised at the amount of free software Grisoft
are _now_ providing (compared to a year or so ago). They do free
versions of AVG antivirus 7.5 for ms windows and half a dozen different
Linux distros (the mainstream versions). They're also providing free
versions of their antispyware and antirootkit programs for ms windows.

I've only ever bothered with their antivirus program, leaving the
antispyware protection to other programs. As for Avast (I've no doubt it
is equally vulnerable to the "Zero Day Threat" that AVG and _all_other_
AV products are), I find its UI totally grotesque, so have only resorted
to using it briefly in order to get AVG up and running (on a customer's
machine) after it (AVG) was caught 'with its pants down' by such a zero
day threat.

As soon as I'd cleaned up the system with Avast, I re-installed AVG and
updated it and used it to find a couple more threats that the totally
updated Avast had missed. Choosing which of the two to keep as an active
installation was a 'No Brainer'. At least AVG has a UI that doesn't try
to pretend it's a musicplayer of some sort and is entirely appropriate
to an antivirus tool.

HTH

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