End of Support for AVG Anti-Virus 6.0

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DW said:
oh my god ... what do i do now ?
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panic over ?

from Grisoft website ...

"Thank you for using AVG Anti-Virus FREE!
New Generation of AVG Free Edition to Replace Current 6.0 Free Edition

GRISOFT is pleased to announce that the next generation of AVG Free will
be available soon!

The new AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition, which is currently available for
Beta testing, is scheduled to be Generally Available at the beginning of
November. Read more ...
- October 27, 2004 -"
 
oh my god ... what do i do now ?
panic over ?

from Grisoft website ...

"Thank you for using AVG Anti-Virus FREE!
New Generation of AVG Free Edition to Replace Current 6.0 Free Edition

GRISOFT is pleased to announce that the next generation of AVG Free will
be available soon!

The new AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition, which is currently available for
Beta testing, is scheduled to be Generally Available at the beginning of
November. Read more ...
- October 27, 2004 -"
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The beta seems MUCH improved over the version 7 eval I tried when it was
first released. They have also integrated the Personal Email Scanner,
which was a somewhat unknown add-on before. So far, I'm happy with the
beta of Free 7.
 
The beta seems MUCH improved over the version 7 eval I tried when it was
first released. They have also integrated the Personal Email Scanner,
which was a somewhat unknown add-on before. So far, I'm happy with the
beta of Free 7.
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Me, too. And I agree that the current beta is significantly improved over
the first version of 7. Hopefully the final version will be better yet.

Daze
 
Daze said:
Me, too. And I agree that the current beta is significantly improved over
the first version of 7. Hopefully the final version will be better yet.

Daze
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Let's keep our fingers crossed! I've been using AVG for so long I
wouldn't know what to do without it! :-)
 
I haven't seen this in other posts, so here it is the link is someone is
interested

http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_avg6_termination.php

Bye, Francesco
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AVG Anti-Virus FREE Edition

Welcome to the new AVG Anti-Virus FREE home page!

Register for your AVG FREE and join the more than 1 million new users
who sign-up each month. The AVG FREE page is your site for the latest
information about AVG FREE, technical support via the FAQ document,
update downloads and more.

Thank you for using AVG Anti-Virus FREE!
New Generation of AVG Free Edition to Replace Current 6.0 Free Edition

GRISOFT is pleased to announce that the next generation of AVG Free will
be available soon!

The new AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition, which is currently available for
Beta testing, is scheduled to be Generally Available at the beginning of
November.

http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/1/
 
DW said:
oh my god ... what do i do now ?
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From the same site, specifically:

http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/5443/lng/us/tpl/v5

<quote>
GRISOFT is pleased to announce that the next generation of AVG Free
will be available soon!

The new AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition, which is currently available for
Beta testing, is scheduled to be Generally Available at the beginning
of November.

All current AVG 6.0 Free users will be able to upgrade to the new AVG
Free Edition before December 31, 2004 or purchase the full AVG
Anti-Virus protection at any time.

AVG Anti-Virus 6.0 FREE Edition will be discontinued on December 31,
2004, and virus database and program updates for this edition will no
longer be available.

In order to provide sufficient time to upgrade to the new AVG Free,
all AVG Anti-Virus 6.0 Free users will be informed through the update
process in the coming weeks about the availability of the upgrade.

GRISOFT continues to provide improved overall computer security by
providing free anti-virus tool for home users.We are excited about the
new release of AVG Free and think that you will be, too!

Thank you for using AVG Free!

The GRISOFT Team
</quote>

Terry
 
Francesco said:
I haven't seen this in other posts, so here it is the link is someone is
interested

http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_avg6_termination.php

Bye, Francesco
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There was a long thread about this already. And support for AVG 6
doesn't end until Dec. 31, 2004. Besides, the AVG 7 is still a beta
version, although the final version is due out any day.

--
Regards from John Corliss
No adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware, demoware,
nagware, shareware, spyware, time-limited software, trialware, viruses
or warez please.

Because Andy Mabbett is stalking me in this group, I have him killfiled.
 
DW said:
oh my god ... what do i do now ?
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I have used AntiVir for some time and I really trust it. I download
upgrades almost daily. However they're manually done. No big deal, I'm
retired and have the time.

Norton, before they went crazy with mine, had automatic downloads as they
became available.

I have a question on AVG I haven't seen answered. Being lazy as sin, does
AVG have auto downloads?

Glenn
 
Glenn said:
I have used AntiVir for some time and I really trust it. I download
upgrades almost daily. However they're manually done. No big deal, I'm
retired and have the time.

Norton, before they went crazy with mine, had automatic downloads as they
became available.

I have a question on AVG I haven't seen answered. Being lazy as sin, does
AVG have auto downloads?
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AVG6 Free supposedly did, but it didn't work well enough to count on it, so
I always manually downloaded updates. The new AVG7 Free, which is currently
still in beta (testing) release, however, has GREATLY improved automatic
updating. I am using it now, and am very happy with it. You set it to check
for updates at a certain time each day, and if you happen to not be online
at that time during the day, it automatically checks as soon as you do go
online. It's worked flawlessly for me so far, and it can be set (in its
Update Manager's "Properties") to perform its updating function entirely
without bothering you as it does so.

Daze
 
Daze N. Knights said:
AVG6 Free supposedly did, but it didn't work well enough to count on it,
so
I always manually downloaded updates. The new AVG7 Free, which is
currently
still in beta (testing) release, however, has GREATLY improved automatic
updating. I am using it now, and am very happy with it. You set it to
check
for updates at a certain time each day, and if you happen to not be online
at that time during the day, it automatically checks as soon as you do go
online. It's worked flawlessly for me so far, and it can be set (in its
Update Manager's "Properties") to perform its updating function entirely
without bothering you as it does so.

Daze
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Thank you. Clear answer. Around the last of November when it is issued I
will try it.

Glenn
 
Let's keep our fingers crossed! I've been using AVG for so long I
wouldn't know what to do without it! :-)
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Gosh, I hope its less bloated than the commerical 7.0 which is so much
resource hungrier than commercial or free 6.

Toad
 
Toad said:
Gosh, I hope its less bloated than the commerical 7.0 which is so much
resource hungrier than commercial or free 6.

Toad
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AVG7 Free (beta) isn't much of a resource drain at all on my system (which
is only Pentium II, Win98se). Quite acceptable, I'd say; especially as most
folks have much more powerful computers than I do.

Daze
 
John said:
There was a long thread about this already. And support for AVG 6
doesn't end until Dec. 31, 2004. Besides, the AVG 7 is still a beta
version, although the final version is due out any day.
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I don't write much here but I don't understand why there are 2 long
threads on this? The section on the freeware version of AVG is clear
and straightforward. Why is there all this confusion?
 
dansheen said:
I don't write much here but I don't understand why there are 2 long
threads on this? The section on the freeware version of AVG is clear
and straightforward. Why is there all this confusion?
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I agree. Seems pretty clear to me too.

--
Regards from John Corliss
No adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware, demoware,
nagware, shareware, spyware, time-limited software, trialware, viruses
or warez please.

Because Andy Mabbett is stalking me in this group, I have him killfiled.
 
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The beta seems MUCH improved over the version 7 eval I tried when
it was first released. They have also integrated the Personal
Email Scanner, which was a somewhat unknown add-on before. So far,
I'm happy with the beta of Free 7.
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Is it possible to disable the personal email scanner? In other words,
is it an option or are you forced to use it?

E.
 
I haven't seen this in other posts, so here it is the link is someone is
interested

http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_avg6_termination.php

Bye, Francesco
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Many people says, that a Beta of AVG7 is the solution...
I tried to install it today, but have some problems.

When I click on a link in a newsgroup, (like the one above) nothing
happens. If I try to click a link on a webpage to open another (for
dl-ing ex) nothing happens... and the version 7 is a (big) bit more
consuming than ver. 6 is... so for now, I just uninstalled it and
reinstalled ver 6...
 
EA said:
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Is it possible to disable the personal email scanner? In other words,
is it an option or are you forced to use it?
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You should be able to by going to Properties for "E-mail Scanner" and
clicking the "Disable plugin" button.

Daze
 
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