AVG Free - Pop up question if you please

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Peter

Sorry if this is off topic, but I am sure there are a lot of windows users
who use the free AVG 7.5 virus protection. I am running xpsp2.

Is there anyway of stopping the damn thing from opening your browser and
displaying an advertisement to update to the pay version 8.0. This happens
when I click check for updates. I think it only happens once per day (if
you recheck for updates several times), but I am not sure about that. I did
some searching in google and failed to come up with an answer.

Thanks...Pete
 
Peter said:
Sorry if this is off topic, but I am sure there are a lot of windows users
who use the free AVG 7.5 virus protection. I am running xpsp2.

Is there anyway of stopping the damn thing from opening your browser and
displaying an advertisement to update to the pay version 8.0. This happens
when I click check for updates. I think it only happens once per day (if
you recheck for updates several times), but I am not sure about that. I did
some searching in google and failed to come up with an answer.

Thanks...Pete
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weird.
I use avg 7.5 on several machines and it's never done that
 
"Peter" wrote...

weird.
I use avg 7.5 on several machines and it's never done that
Click to expand...

The popup suggesting I go from AVG Antivirus Free 7.5 to their new v8
Internet Security does occur on the one PC I have running AVG7.5 Free. At
least the other PC I have running a paid version of AVG AntiMalware has no
pop-ups.

Craig
 
philo said:
weird.
I use avg 7.5 on several machines and it's never done that
Click to expand...

Philo...if you google it, apparently it does NOT happen to everyone for some
strange reason, but there is ample evidence that it happens and that AVG has
slumped down to that sort of thing - it is a shame. I don't see anyway of
stopping it, except for uninstalling and reinstalling, but I doubt that will
work since someone said the pop up was in one of their update files, and
therefore it is probable in the latest version of 7.5 that you would
redownload.

Do you think it has anything to do with firefox, versus IE. I use
firefox...Pete
 
Sat said:
weird.
I use avg 7.5 on several machines and it's never done that
Click to expand...

For me, it started doing that a couple of weeks ago, and did it for
about a week, then stopped.

But what has been consistent from Day 1 is that the automatic update
screen pops up and grabs focus, then 15-30 seconds later when the
update is being applied a second screen pops up and grabs focus, then
about a minute later when the update is successful a third window
pops up and grabs focus. I'd love to make *that* stop, but I figure
it's the price I have to pay for good-quality antivirus protection at
no charge.
 
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