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Patricia · 07-04-2008, 05:06 PM

I would like to vent and rant about AVG 8 antivirus.
I used AVG 7 and 7.5 (free editions) with no problems. I used to call down blessings on the nice Czechs who gave us free antivirus and anti-spyware which worked and caused no trouble.
Then they flashed up messages saying that AVG would no longer support 7.5 after May. Later they extended the deadline till late June. So I downloaded AVG 8, which contained both antivirus and anti-spyware. Oh dear. What a mistake. It took up a great deal of space. It fought with Spybot Search and Destroy. It really didn’t play well with others. My Comodo firewall didn’t like it either. Then it slowed down my internet connection to a crawl (thanks to its linkscanner, which I promptly disabled). And it stopped updating automatically; instead telling me that the internet connection had failed. So my first job on going online was to run a manual update. I consoled myself with the belief that an important update was on its way. I might have managed to live with all this. But then the SP1 appeared a couple of days ago. The result was all the previous problems still occurred, plus a demand for continuous rebooting so that updates could take effect. (They didn’t.)
So I did a Google search for AVG 8 problems and discovered that lots of other people had identical issues. I also discovered that AVG 7.5 will be tacitly supported till the end of 2008. So I searched for AVG 7.5 (and found it on filehippo), reinstalled it, and everything is lovely again. I found the anti-spyware at the same site.
I might try AVG 8 again at Christmas, just to see whether they have ironed out the problems. If not, then I'm off to either Avira or Avast.
Why is it that when people have a perfectly nice program they go on to spoil it, and make something that is really stupid?

07-04-2008, 05:06 PM	#438
Patricia Reader Posts: 11,504 Karma: 8720163 Join Date: May 2007 Location: South Wales, UK Device: Sony PRS-500, PRS-505, Asus EEEpc 4G	AVG 8: More irritating than squirrels I would like to vent and rant about AVG 8 antivirus. I used AVG 7 and 7.5 (free editions) with no problems. I used to call down blessings on the nice Czechs who gave us free antivirus and anti-spyware which worked and caused no trouble. Then they flashed up messages saying that AVG would no longer support 7.5 after May. Later they extended the deadline till late June. So I downloaded AVG 8, which contained both antivirus and anti-spyware. Oh dear. What a mistake. It took up a great deal of space. It fought with Spybot Search and Destroy. It really didn’t play well with others. My Comodo firewall didn’t like it either. Then it slowed down my internet connection to a crawl (thanks to its linkscanner, which I promptly disabled). And it stopped updating automatically; instead telling me that the internet connection had failed. So my first job on going online was to run a manual update. I consoled myself with the belief that an important update was on its way. I might have managed to live with all this. But then the SP1 appeared a couple of days ago. The result was all the previous problems still occurred, plus a demand for continuous rebooting so that updates could take effect. (They didn’t.) So I did a Google search for AVG 8 problems and discovered that lots of other people had identical issues. I also discovered that AVG 7.5 will be tacitly supported till the end of 2008. So I searched for AVG 7.5 (and found it on filehippo), reinstalled it, and everything is lovely again. I found the anti-spyware at the same site. I might try AVG 8 again at Christmas, just to see whether they have ironed out the problems. If not, then I'm off to either Avira or Avast. Why is it that when people have a perfectly nice program they go on to spoil it, and make something that is really stupid?