Re: [CGUYS] AVG dissatisfaction

2008-06-19 Thread mike
Am I mistaken or is there only free antivirus from AVG? That doesn't seem to cover most of the problems out there depending on how AVG classifies problems. I haven't seen many true viruses in years. One of the reasons I switched to the free avast when I installed vista 64. I hadn't run

Re: [CGUYS] AVG dissatisfaction

2008-06-19 Thread Richard P.
AVG Free 8.x does have an Anti-Spyware component with its Anti-Virus. I don't don't how comprehensive it is as I supplement my system with Webroot's Spy Sweeper. I do know that AVG 8.x scans for and finds a lot more things than 7.x. Richard P. mike wrote: Am I mistaken or is there only free

Re: [CGUYS] AVG dissatisfaction

2008-06-07 Thread Jeff Wright
-Original Message- Thought I received message at end of May that AVG free was ending as of June 1 and needed to upgrade to presumably paid version. Was away and didn't do anything, but still seems to be running as far as I can tell. Anyone else heard about this? This is a common

Re: [CGUYS] AVG dissatisfaction

2008-06-07 Thread Sue Cubic
At 04:53 PM 06/05/2008 -0400, Ranbo wrote After reading this thread, wondering if AVG might be what is slowing down my browsing, mainly on FireFox, but probably also some on IE? I had a program update on 7.5 this week, and my computer is now booting far faster than it has been since the

Re: [CGUYS] AVG dissatisfaction

2008-06-07 Thread Jeff Wright
One problem I have noticed is that if you upgrade to v. 8 directly from v. 7.5, I've seen, twice now, desktops not loading as a result; you just sit there with a background and no icons. Manually uninstalling 7.5 and then installing 8 doesn't have this problem so far. I've had to do system

Re: [CGUYS] AVG dissatisfaction

2008-06-06 Thread Ranbo
Thought I received message at end of May that AVG free was ending as of June 1 and needed to upgrade to presumably paid version. Was away and didn't do anything, but still seems to be running as far as I can tell. Anyone else heard about this? After reading this thread, wondering if AVG might be

Re: [CGUYS] AVG dissatisfaction

2008-06-04 Thread Brian Jones
is not yet installed... you are still protected from over 100,000 viruses and worms! Your ISP is likely scanning your incomming email for viruses, so your risk is very small. - Original Message - From: Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CGUYS] AVG dissatisfaction

Re: [CGUYS] AVG dissatisfaction

2008-06-04 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
Three apps may deal with things better than one swiss army program. I have all three on a swiss army knife but I would rather own a screwdriver, a kitchen knife and a can opener. On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:31 PM, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True...but why use three instead of one? Why