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RWood · 07-04-2008, 07:51 PM

There is also a speed and timing issue with AVG Free 8. In 7.5 I could set the start time and everything ran fine. Sometime in the dead of the night worked great for me. Now 8 has this feather up its unchangeable whatever that the system A/V scan has to start at 3:00 pm local time. If I don't like 3 then I have to pay. Well, maybe I could live with it. After all 7.5 finished in about 45 minutes and it was benign in the background, how much worse could 8 be than that? The new version that kicks off at 3 spins the hard drives enough to give me a headache (and that's a hard thing to do.) Plus the 45 minutes now extends to four and one-half hours. At that speed I expect every file to either gold plated or hand dipped in chocolate.

After the virus that rolled in here behind the wheel of a Mac truck through the Norton A/V shield, I can't bring myself to trust them again even though I still have the rights to the corporate license agreement for a few more years. (Long story about a client's requirements to work with them, they only lost about a third of their computers to the same Mac truck driving virus. I had current backups.)

Thanks for the tip on FileHippo, Patricia. I'll grab it befre this thing scans again.

07-04-2008, 07:51 PM	#441
RWood Technogeezer Posts: 7,233 Karma: 1601464 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Virginia, USA Device: Sony PRS-500	There is also a speed and timing issue with AVG Free 8. In 7.5 I could set the start time and everything ran fine. Sometime in the dead of the night worked great for me. Now 8 has this feather up its unchangeable whatever that the system A/V scan has to start at 3:00 pm local time. If I don't like 3 then I have to pay. Well, maybe I could live with it. After all 7.5 finished in about 45 minutes and it was benign in the background, how much worse could 8 be than that? The new version that kicks off at 3 spins the hard drives enough to give me a headache (and that's a hard thing to do.) Plus the 45 minutes now extends to four and one-half hours. At that speed I expect every file to either gold plated or hand dipped in chocolate. After the virus that rolled in here behind the wheel of a Mac truck through the Norton A/V shield, I can't bring myself to trust them again even though I still have the rights to the corporate license agreement for a few more years. (Long story about a client's requirements to work with them, they only lost about a third of their computers to the same Mac truck driving virus. I had current backups.) Thanks for the tip on FileHippo, Patricia. I'll grab it befre this thing scans again.