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Offline Simon

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Re: AVG 8.0
« Reply #15 on: April 26, 2008, 18:20 »
Careful it doesn't delete Avant, Clive!  :devil:
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Re: AVG 8.0
« Reply #16 on: April 26, 2008, 18:24 »
I'm still at a loss as to why, if it's such a good product, they would want to give it away.  :dunno:
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Re: AVG 8.0
« Reply #17 on: April 26, 2008, 18:39 »
so they can develop new viruses...    :crazy: :crazy:
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Re: AVG 8.0
« Reply #18 on: April 26, 2008, 18:47 »
Wow!  The cynics are out in force today!   :devil:
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Re: AVG 8.0
« Reply #19 on: April 26, 2008, 18:50 »
yeah i think thats why simon but i do like ewido so I hope its the same.  :)
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Re: AVG 8.0
« Reply #20 on: April 26, 2008, 18:52 »
Quote from: Clive on April 26, 2008, 18:03
I've just downloaded it and it seems to be well behaved! 

What, Alf does?  :o  ;D
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Re: AVG 8.0
« Reply #21 on: April 26, 2008, 19:21 »
Michelle, if you want a back up anti spyware, Windows Defender seems to run along side most other security programs quite happily.
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Re: AVG 8.0
« Reply #22 on: April 26, 2008, 19:22 »
Interesting concept, Rik, but I don't think a well behaved Alf exists, does it?  ;D
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Re: AVG 8.0
« Reply #23 on: April 26, 2008, 20:57 »
are we talking about
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Re: AVG 8.0
« Reply #24 on: April 26, 2008, 21:00 »
:lol:
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Re: AVG 8.0
« Reply #25 on: April 27, 2008, 00:27 »
It seems fine to me but as I am running Vista I had to get an addon from windows updates before I could install it.
This meant I had to get the dreaded WGA to say that I had a legit version of Vista before it let me download it.
As mines legit, or at least windoze thinks it is :o: there wasnt a problem but others with dodgier versions of Vista may not be able to install it, the full scan took over an hour even when set at its fastest speed.
I am not sure if this is because of the extra spyware and trojan scans its doing over AVG free 7.5 but the full pc scan used to take about 25 minutes    :dunno:
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Re: AVG 8.0
« Reply #26 on: April 27, 2008, 03:51 »
Thats what i noticed changing from AVG to Nod32, AVG is so slow, also all the viruses it missed.
AVG is only popular because its free, it really is a poor product.
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Re: AVG 8.0
« Reply #27 on: April 27, 2008, 08:29 »
Quote from: Sandra on April 27, 2008, 00:27
It seems fine to me but as I am running Vista I had to get an addon from windows updates before I could install it.
This meant I had to get the dreaded WGA to say that I had a legit version of Vista before it let me download it.
As mines legit, or at least windoze thinks it is :o: there wasnt a problem but others with dodgier versions of Vista may not be able to install it, the full scan took over an hour even when set at its fastest speed.
I am not sure if this is because of the extra spyware and trojan scans its doing over AVG free 7.5 but the full pc scan used to take about 25 minutes    :dunno:

is that because vista is hogging the processor?
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Re: AVG 8.0
« Reply #28 on: April 27, 2008, 12:40 »
No Sam, its the same PC and OS that I noticed the difference in the time that it took to run the scan on.
Its an Intel P4 660 3.6ghz  CPU so it acts like a dual core anyway but the PC wasnt doing anything else at the time of the scan.
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Re: AVG 8.0
« Reply #29 on: April 27, 2008, 13:14 »
Sorry to break in here, but I have tried a couple of times to download AVG 8 and the last time it came up with that "can't save this file as it can't read the exe file" or something to that effect. I'm re-trying again, and I'm downloading from File Hippo as I couldn't find it, well the free version, at the AVG site.
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