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« on: April 24, 2008, 09:39:25 PM »
http://free.grisoft.com/ww.download?prd=afe

AVG Antivirus 8.0 Free is now available.

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« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2008, 09:44:44 PM »
Quote from: 3xist on April 24, 2008, 09:39:25 PM
http://free.grisoft.com/ww.download?prd=afe

AVG Antivirus 8.0 Free is now available.

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It has integrated antispyware now.  Most likely because Avast! incorporated AS capabilities in their free av.
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« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2008, 01:01:18 AM »
The link you posted was incorrect as it went to the "Trial Pay" page instead of the standard Free Download.

Be careful with this trial pay stuff, I'm sure it works ok for some but I ended up signing up to a site only to find that I was stuck in a contract to purchase a minimum of 6 bundles of books costing over £100.

The right one is this:    http://free.grisoft.com/ww.download-avg-anti-virus-free-edition#tba2

I'll give it a go though. Avast is doing my head in at the moment, practically freezing my computer everytime it updates and I'm anxiously awaiting CAVS3 to comeout.

I'll probably run BoClean along side it for some rootkit protection.

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« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2008, 02:25:50 AM »
Quote from: Eric Cryptid on April 25, 2008, 01:01:18 AM
The right one is this:    http://free.grisoft.com/ww.download-avg-anti-virus-free-edition#tba2


Thanks m8 Wink

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« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2008, 06:56:56 AM »
The free version is very limited - it seems less than Avast and, in my experience, is slower and heavier.
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« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2008, 07:17:39 AM »
Quote from: 3xist on April 24, 2008, 09:39:25 PM
http://free.grisoft.com/ww.download?prd=afe

Quote from: Eric Cryptid on April 25, 2008, 01:01:18 AM
The right one is this:    http://free.grisoft.com/ww.download-avg-anti-virus-free-edition#tba2

Please, what is the difference? When click "continue" button in Eric's link, then it goes to Josh's link.

Do I see wrong?

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« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2008, 09:54:31 AM »
Josh's Link goes to the download page but with Trial Pay notices on it so it looked like it was teh Trial Pay for the Paid Version.

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« Reply #7 on: April 25, 2008, 02:26:51 PM »
No web shield. If you want free stick with Avast. I will keep my Avira Premium.  Bounce
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« Reply #8 on: April 25, 2008, 03:01:47 PM »
I tried AVG 8 Free....

It's a lot slower than 7.5, took forever to load on my xp sp2 512mb intel centrino 1.6ghz.

Oh and the uninstall, what a nightmare! Took at least 20 minutes for it to check the status of each of it's files and at least 10 to delete the files.

I've gone back to Avast! !

Sorry, just did not work for me.

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« Reply #9 on: April 25, 2008, 10:10:57 PM »
I am not having issues with it on my 1.5GB Vista machine.

But I did test it on an old 512MB machine (XP), It was very slow...

So this isn't the best for Slow computers, Avast! Seems the preferred, Or Avira.

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« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2008, 10:33:30 PM »
AVG 8 has hardcore FP's!  It scanned my reg and found over 500 things, spyware doctor and spysweeper found nothing.  I notified grisoft, so hopefully all goes well..
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« Reply #11 on: April 25, 2008, 11:48:42 PM »
Quote from: Info-Sec on April 25, 2008, 10:33:30 PM
Avast 8 has hardcore FP's!  It scanned my reg and found over 500 things, spyware doctor and spysweeper found nothing.  I notified grisoft, so hopefully all goes well..

Look what you wrote. TYPO..........lol. Avast 8 has false positives so you contacted Grisoft. I think you meant AVG 8 has false positves.  Wink
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« Reply #12 on: April 26, 2008, 01:06:32 AM »
Quote from: Vettetech on April 25, 2008, 11:48:42 PM
Look what you wrote. TYPO..........lol. Avast 8 has false positives so you contacted Grisoft. I think you meant AVG 8 has false positves.  Wink

Haha.  Thanks I corrected it.  Still thats redic how many fp's there were.  Avast! is still my fav free antimalware solution.
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« Reply #13 on: April 26, 2008, 06:39:56 AM »
Quote from: 3xist on April 25, 2008, 10:10:57 PM
I am not having issues with it on my 1.5GB Vista machine.

But I did test it on an old 512MB machine (XP), It was very slow...

So this isn't the best for Slow computers, Avast! Seems the preferred, Or Avira.

Josh
Just a query has the free edition AVG Antivirus on Vista install a Firewall Driver (On Demand) if you look in Device Manager (Hidden devices)
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« Reply #14 on: April 29, 2008, 01:22:42 AM »
Quote from: Dennis2 on April 26, 2008, 06:39:56 AM
Just a query has the free edition AVG Antivirus on Vista install a Firewall Driver (On Demand) if you look in Device Manager (Hidden devices)
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Sorry Dennis,

I got XP back on my PC. & Now using Avira Premium

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