Comments on: AVG 8 Free Available, Not Bad Actually http://cybernetnews.com/avg-8-free-available-not-bad-actually/ Technology News Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:29:52 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://cybernetnews.com/avg-8-free-available-not-bad-actually/comment-page-1/#comment-146952 Anonymous Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:49:36 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=12288#comment-146952 I'm not currently impressed with AVG Free 8.0. First of all, it takes up an enormous amount of memory from my computer, thus slowing most of my processes. My other concern is that its AVG Security Toolbar is not compatible with Firefox 3.0. I’m not currently impressed with AVG Free 8.0. First of all, it takes up an enormous amount of memory from my computer, thus slowing most of my processes. My other concern is that its AVG Security Toolbar is not compatible with Firefox 3.0.

]]> By: SpecialK http://cybernetnews.com/avg-8-free-available-not-bad-actually/comment-page-1/#comment-144775 SpecialK Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:56:53 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=12288#comment-144775 I tested the beta version. It was ok but it used sooooooo much resources. The thing I was disappointed in was the support. I understand it was a beta version but I couldn't uninstall that damn thing and wrote their support about 10 times(literally) and not ONE single response from them. :evil: I tested the beta version. It was ok but it used sooooooo much resources. The thing I was disappointed in was the support. I understand it was a beta version but I couldn’t uninstall that damn thing and wrote their support about 10 times(literally) and not ONE single response from them. :evil:

]]> By: Dan http://cybernetnews.com/avg-8-free-available-not-bad-actually/comment-page-1/#comment-137938 Dan Thu, 15 May 2008 16:30:23 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=12288#comment-137938 Well, the first thing AVG8 did after the 'upgrade' was delete all the email out of my inbox, so I can't say I'm happy with it at all... Well, the first thing AVG8 did after the ‘upgrade’ was delete all the email out of my inbox, so I can’t say I’m happy with it at all…

]]> By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/avg-8-free-available-not-bad-actually/comment-page-1/#comment-136568 Ryan Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:46:23 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=12288#comment-136568 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-136480" rel="nofollow">Lashiec wrote:</a><blockquote>Hmph, I don’t think it’s a good move to leave the anti-rootkit out considering that the previous standalone scanner is way outdated, and both AntVir and avast! detect them. It’s nice to see that, despite the huge download, the scanner is light.</blockquote></div> I was a little bummed that it was left out as well, but I guess that would be one of the big reasons to pay for the software. They have to have some incentives there. <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-136487" rel="nofollow">Claus Valca wrote:</a><blockquote>I posted a review on my blog and fussed a bit about the fact that while AVG SafeSearch and AVG SafeSurf (and the toolbars) were nice features for some users, I certainly didn’t care for them, and that they were a pain to disable. AND that there wasn’t a global way to remove them in AVG.</blockquote></div> Thanks for the instructions! I didn't actually think about needing to remove the LinkScanner since it could be disabled in the settings. But I could see how some people wouldn't want it at all on their machines. <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-136509" rel="nofollow">Ted Joy wrote:</a><blockquote>I installed AVG 8.0 Friday afternoon and for the first hour or so everything seemed to be working fine. (Let me interrupt here to say that I’m running XP Pro/SP3 and Firefox 2.0.0.14 with about 30 extensions.) Then, about a third of my FF extensions stopped working. I rebooted FF and all but two or three of my extensions stopped. Being a glutton for punishment, I shut down FF and rebooted my computer.</blockquote></div> That is really crazy! I'm guessing that it is a combination of having SP3 and AVG. Maybe they hadn't tested it on the release candidate yet before pushing it out. <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-136513" rel="nofollow">thorbeast wrote:</a><blockquote>Ted That’s a bummer. Maybe it is XP SP3 Yesterday I installed AVG Free 8 on a Vista SP1 and a Windows XP Pro SP2 systems and they have both been running fine - I have the latest Firefox on both with many extensions (about 20 plus each) and the extensions seem to be working fine. No BSOD. I ran automatic full system scans with AVG Free 8 on both with no problems. </blockquote></div> I ran the system scan on Vista SP1 without any issues. I'm guessing it is an incompatibility with XP SP3 as you mentioned. <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-136552" rel="nofollow">Dave C wrote:</a><blockquote>I disabled the linkscanner extension in firefox and IE7 because it didn’t work and McAfee SiteAdvisor is much better.</blockquote></div> In general I don't use these services. Good to konw that you think SiteAdvisor is better. I haven't tried that out in quite some time. Lashiec wrote:
Hmph, I don’t think it’s a good move to leave the anti-rootkit out considering that the previous standalone scanner is way outdated, and both AntVir and avast! detect them. It’s nice to see that, despite the huge download, the scanner is light.

I was a little bummed that it was left out as well, but I guess that would be one of the big reasons to pay for the software. They have to have some incentives there.

Claus Valca wrote:
I posted a review on my blog and fussed a bit about the fact that while AVG SafeSearch and AVG SafeSurf (and the toolbars) were nice features for some users, I certainly didn’t care for them, and that they were a pain to disable. AND that there wasn’t a global way to remove them in AVG.

Thanks for the instructions! I didn’t actually think about needing to remove the LinkScanner since it could be disabled in the settings. But I could see how some people wouldn’t want it at all on their machines.

Ted Joy wrote:
I installed AVG 8.0 Friday afternoon and for the first hour or so everything seemed to be working fine.

(Let me interrupt here to say that I’m running XP Pro/SP3 and Firefox 2.0.0.14 with about 30 extensions.)

Then, about a third of my FF extensions stopped working. I rebooted FF and all but two or three of my extensions stopped. Being a glutton for punishment, I shut down FF and rebooted my computer.

That is really crazy! I’m guessing that it is a combination of having SP3 and AVG. Maybe they hadn’t tested it on the release candidate yet before pushing it out.

thorbeast wrote:
Ted
That’s a bummer. Maybe it is XP SP3
Yesterday I installed AVG Free 8 on a Vista SP1 and a Windows XP Pro SP2 systems and they have both been running fine – I have the latest Firefox on both with many extensions (about 20 plus each) and the extensions seem to be working fine. No BSOD.
I ran automatic full system scans with AVG Free 8 on both with no problems.

I ran the system scan on Vista SP1 without any issues. I’m guessing it is an incompatibility with XP SP3 as you mentioned.

Dave C wrote:
I disabled the linkscanner extension in firefox and IE7 because it didn’t work and McAfee SiteAdvisor is much better.

In general I don’t use these services. Good to konw that you think SiteAdvisor is better. I haven’t tried that out in quite some time.

]]> By: Dave C http://cybernetnews.com/avg-8-free-available-not-bad-actually/comment-page-1/#comment-136552 Dave C Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:18:16 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=12288#comment-136552 Upgraded to AVG 8.0 from AVG 7.5 the interface is much better not sure about the real time protection, but after downloading some test viruses and scanning them with AVG 8.0 it picked up all of them so seems to be quite effective. I disabled the linkscanner extension in firefox and IE7 because it didn't work and McAfee SiteAdvisor is much better. Upgraded to AVG 8.0 from AVG 7.5 the interface is much better not sure about the real time protection, but after downloading some test viruses and scanning them with AVG 8.0 it picked up all of them so seems to be quite effective.

I disabled the linkscanner extension in firefox and IE7 because it didn’t work and McAfee SiteAdvisor is much better.

]]> By: thorbeast http://cybernetnews.com/avg-8-free-available-not-bad-actually/comment-page-1/#comment-136513 thorbeast Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:05:40 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=12288#comment-136513 Ted That's a bummer. Maybe it is XP SP3 Yesterday I installed AVG Free 8 on a Vista SP1 and a Windows XP Pro SP2 systems and they have both been running fine - I have the latest Firefox on both with many extensions (about 20 plus each) and the extensions seem to be working fine. No BSOD. I ran automatic full system scans with AVG Free 8 on both with no problems. Is your SP3 version for XP the full and final version? Ted
That’s a bummer. Maybe it is XP SP3
Yesterday I installed AVG Free 8 on a Vista SP1 and a Windows XP Pro SP2 systems and they have both been running fine – I have the latest Firefox on both with many extensions (about 20 plus each) and the extensions seem to be working fine. No BSOD.
I ran automatic full system scans with AVG Free 8 on both with no problems.

Is your SP3 version for XP the full and final version?

]]> By: Ted Joy http://cybernetnews.com/avg-8-free-available-not-bad-actually/comment-page-1/#comment-136509 Ted Joy Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:02:27 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=12288#comment-136509 I installed AVG 8.0 Friday afternoon and for the first hour or so everything seemed to be working fine. (Let me interrupt here to say that I'm running XP Pro/SP3 and Firefox 2.0.0.14 with about 30 extensions.) Then, about a third of my FF extensions stopped working. I rebooted FF and all but two or three of my extensions stopped. Being a glutton for punishment, I shut down FF and rebooted my computer. It never came back. Instead I got a blue screen and I've been working away trying to get things restarted again practically nonstop since then -- including talking for hours to Microsoft help, trying a re-install of XP (it didn't reinstall), and trying a clean install of Vista (it didn't install.) I've also run my Dell diagnostics twice and it reports that everything about my machine is working properly -- except the operating system and all of the software apparently. I have no idea if the problem is AVG 8 or the newly-installed SP3 or some combination of the two or something else entirely. Whatever it is, I'm not very happy. I installed AVG 8.0 Friday afternoon and for the first hour or so everything seemed to be working fine.

(Let me interrupt here to say that I’m running XP Pro/SP3 and Firefox 2.0.0.14 with about 30 extensions.)

Then, about a third of my FF extensions stopped working. I rebooted FF and all but two or three of my extensions stopped. Being a glutton for punishment, I shut down FF and rebooted my computer.

It never came back. Instead I got a blue screen and I’ve been working away trying to get things restarted again practically nonstop since then — including talking for hours to Microsoft help, trying a re-install of XP (it didn’t reinstall), and trying a clean install of Vista (it didn’t install.)

I’ve also run my Dell diagnostics twice and it reports that everything about my machine is working properly — except the operating system and all of the software apparently.

I have no idea if the problem is AVG 8 or the newly-installed SP3 or some combination of the two or something else entirely.

Whatever it is, I’m not very happy.

]]> By: thorbeast http://cybernetnews.com/avg-8-free-available-not-bad-actually/comment-page-1/#comment-136496 thorbeast Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:14:16 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=12288#comment-136496 Here is the link to the AVG Free Forum where this issue was answered: http://forum.grisoft.cz/freeforum/read.php?12,121322,backpage=,sv= Here is the link to the AVG Free Forum where this issue was answered:
[forum.grisoft.cz]

]]> By: thorbeast http://cybernetnews.com/avg-8-free-available-not-bad-actually/comment-page-1/#comment-136495 thorbeast Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:13:02 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=12288#comment-136495 The E-mail scanner is fully functional and will not expire after 30 days. That is only so in the Trial-Pro version. From Michael on the AVG Team: "Dear AVG Free Users... Cmon - you know us better than that! Cnet have obviously confused our free trail version with the AVG Free version. NOTHING on your AVG 8.0 Free Edition will expire after 30 days!" The E-mail scanner is fully functional and will not expire after 30 days. That is only so in the Trial-Pro version.

From Michael on the AVG Team:

“Dear AVG Free Users…
Cmon – you know us better than that!
Cnet have obviously confused our free trail version with the AVG Free version.
NOTHING on your AVG 8.0 Free Edition will expire after 30 days!”

]]> By: Anonymous http://cybernetnews.com/avg-8-free-available-not-bad-actually/comment-page-1/#comment-136490 Anonymous Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:10:19 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=12288#comment-136490 You left out a very important feature of the AVG 8 Free Edition. After a trial period, the e-mail protection is disabled. You can only get this feature back if you upgrade to the full Internet protection version...for a fee. This is a marketing stratgy that most reviewers have overlooked in their enthusiasm for the free product. You left out a very important feature of the AVG 8 Free Edition. After a trial period, the e-mail protection is disabled. You can only get this feature back if you upgrade to the full Internet protection version…for a fee. This is a marketing stratgy that most reviewers have overlooked in their enthusiasm for the free product.

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