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Free version of AVG 7 released

more importantly if using the free version AVG6 you have to get the new version as support is stopping at end of December 2004
 
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I'm quite surprised Grisoft decided on giving up on AVG6 as I never encountered any issue with this one. I've installed AVG6 previously on quite a number of home PCs to remove viruses and never encountered a PC with a dead AVG.

AVG7 Free seems to be more customisible and so far I have not encountered any issues with this one, although I'm starting to get worried about this one considering the number of issues reported on AVG's free-user forum.

On the other hand, I've installed AVG7 Professional in several businesses over the past few months and seems to run glitch free with far less issues than Norton.

Norton AV (both 2003 & 2004) use to be a pain to troubleshoot when it would die for no apparent reason and in some cases use to be the matter of completely removing every instance of 'Norton' and 'Symantec' out of the registry just to reinstall it. Going by C|net, only 37% give the thumbs up for Norton AV 2005. I have not encountered McAfee going corrupt, however its ePolicy Orchestrator server's scheduler (in corporate edition) use to stop running tasks for no apparent reason, thus resulting in client PC's virus definitions going out of date and no one noticing until it's too late. McAfee's client version use to be a pain for hogging the PC's resources, although it was generally the case for the older McAfee versions.

I must have a look at AntiVir as I thought AVG and Avast were the only free virus checkers going around. I haven't tried Avast in quite a while now, but this one is also starting to look promising with 97% giving the thumbs up on C|net Download's :cool:
 
I installed AVG 7 a few days ago after my free 1 year Etrust subscription expired.

I haven't had any bother with it, however I didn't install the email scanning component as all the free email services I use now have anti virus protection (unlike My ISP's :rolleyes: ) also I access most of them by IMAP and I think AVG only scans POP.

I've had less success with Sygate which I installed to replace ZA Pro that came with etrust - it blocks stand-by and hitting the sleep button can cause a lock-up :(
 
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I find AVG Free (6, now 7 as well) cooperates very well with Kerio Personal Firewall. You might want to give that a try (free for personal use)
 
Mel said:
I installed AVG 7 a few days ago after my free 1 year Etrust subscription expired.

Same here. but it's running with out any trouble but the auto pop mail scaning is kind of annoying but all in all me like it :)
:)
 
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ProfPete said:
cooperates very well with Kerio Personal Firewall. You might want to give that a try (free for personal use)

Just tried Kerio 4.12(was going to try it again anyway after my problem with Sygate, to see if it had improved since the first 4.0 release)

So far I've found Kerio more trouble than Sygate, It launches Dial-up on every boot-up and causes a complete lock-up if I try to capture with Ethereal (seems to be incompatible with WinPCap). Only positive is that it uses less CPU time than Sygate. Anyway I'm now downloading ZA Free.
 
Stange. Ethereal works fine with it here. I'm on broadband, and hiding behind an embedded linux router anyway, so Kerio is mostly there to keep outgoing stuff under tabs, and I like the application-layer traffic monitoring.
 
It could be windows 98 specific, or hardware related.

I'm using windows 98SE, WinPcap 3.1 beta 3 (also tried new beta 4) and Ethereal 10.7
Trying to open the capture window causes the crash - My guess is it is when WinPcap is checking for network adaptors. Worked fine with ZoneAlarm Pro (3.xx) and Sygate and I've often used ethereal with Kerio 2.15. (Can't remember if it worked with Kerio 4.0).

I'm going to miss the PRO features of ZoneAlarm (assuming ZAF works :eek: )
 
Ah, sorry, I'm on XP, which handles services a hell of a lot better than win98 (infact, win98 doesn't have services, just background tasks). I have a bad habbit of assuming everyone else now uses an NT-based platform.
 
Quite frankly Windows 98 doesn't handle anything well, but I'm stuck with it until I upgrade the obsolete hardware or chance flashing the bios with a beta update to fix a compatibility issue.

Anyway ZA free 5.5 seems to be ok (but very basic compared to sygate and kerio).

The latest version of Kerio correctly logged and reported my dial-up number (all be it after dialling) so it could be useful for people fearful of rogue dialers.
 
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Mel said:
I installed AVG 7 a few days ago after my free 1 year Etrust subscription expired.

I haven't had any bother with it, however I didn't install the email scanning component as all the free email services I use now have anti virus protection (unlike My ISP's :rolleyes: ) also I access most of them by IMAP and I think AVG only scans POP.


I take it all back, for several days now my PC has been exhibiting stability issues. Not sure if it was the result of a recent AVG update or that it doesn't get on with something I've installed recently, but an avg VXD was crashing and uninstalling AVG cured the problem. (back to Etrust for the time being I guess).
 
I've tried to uninstall/reinstall AVG7 after it kept crashing my computer. The uninstall worked fine (it said) but when I try to re-install it tells me I already have a full version of AVG7 on my computer. Please can anyone help? I'd settle for just a full uninstall now!
 
i moved files for avg by accident and it stopped working uninstalled it but was unable to install avg 7 due to as above message saying already loaded.

found out it was locked onto outlokk express to scan emails and this would not uninstall so leaving a trace of avg

had to go into regedit and remove any trace of avg from the registry and then i was able to reinstall avg7 working fine now with no stability issues
 
Avg 7

My first experience with AVG was with the free version and about 2 years ago I bought version 7. I have it installed and just leave it to get on with its work all by itself. I admit that the pop mail scanning part is a pain in the backside but other than that I am more than pleased with it.
It seems that every day the program is automatically updated and often does an automatic scan for viruses. I have tried many other anti virus programs but I always come back to AVG.
Dave
 
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