Trouble is, we can't go back to version 6. Grisoft isn't going to
keep writing definitions for 6 much longer, if they haven't
stopped already. Don't know what I'll do if AVG 7 is no good -- I
don't like any other free antivirus. I used to like InnoculateIT,
while it was free, but that's gone. AntiVir has a really clunky
interface and is slow as muck. Free F-Prot won't work on NTFS file
system drives, because it's DOS based. I found Avast! intrusive.
What's a cheap person to do? Not that cost is the only
consideration. You couldn't pay me to put Norton or McAfee on my
computer.
I hear ya and raise ya 10 on Norton and McAfee - geezus, both of those
were so intrusive, and so bulky, and so resource hungry, and so difficult
even when it comes time to uninstall, with all the orphans and auxilaries
they leave lying around...
You know, on AVG Free, the v7 flavor, what has worked really good for me
when it glitches (and that's not really very often for me, and then when
it does, it seems it's only on 1 of 3 boxes where I use it) is just
download the latest version, completely uninstall the old one, reboot,
and then install the new one.
Sometimes I might still have a problem with update at that point, so I
have just re-discovered the update from hard-drive method [from "Fred" in
24hoursupport.helpdesk - leave it to an Englishman to pull my butte out
of the fire again, ehh? (^;] so, I also download the latest update BIN
file [and when Grisoft servers are rebelling, I right-click, "Save Target
As" which seems to work better] and then use Fred's kind hint reminding
me of the procedure:
1) In Control centre - Update Manager - double-click
"Automatic AVG Free ......etc"
2) go to - Properties - untick "Do not ask for Update Source" - then
"Check for Update"
3) double click "Folder" and select directory where
you stored the bin file.
I too still miss IPE - that was really a neat little dealy-o with quite a
large community supporting it, including in here, but I also remember in
their last days how many false positives and update problems there were
with that, and CA's IMHO rather arrogant replies to notice of the
problems which amounted to calling us freeware users "beggars can't be
choosers" or to that effect or else I probably would have gone to their
$ware version in support of all the years of using their freeware. It's
still essentially the same interface as the old IPE, with some polish
[like in the 'shoe' not the 'country'] and really not that expensive.
But, I'm a cheep basket too, and slam proud of it, so as long as I can
bump AVG around, I'll keep using it! I dunno, I kind of like it,
especially when it's working right - it's mostly just the lack of control
over update and test options which I'm trying to adjust to, along with
everybody else, I guess.
I just hope the folks in here keep up with their tweaks and fixes too!
Thanks to all!
Bart
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