AVG 7/8 - general story

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Richard Fangnail

I first bought AVG 7.0 (not free) in Feb 2007 and it worked okay. I
also upgraded to 7.5 a few months ago and it was okay.

Last night I upgraded to 8.0 and I hated it so I uninstalled it. I
didn't like the idea of its having its own firewall and it often asked
me if I should allow/disallow something.

The only AVG big exe file was the one from Feb 2007 so I installed
that. Sometime along the way, it said my AVG was too old to get
updates so there was a "repair" file which I used. I am not clear
what it did.

It now says 7.5 and not 7.0 all over the program and it's acting
quirky. If I click on Test Center it will crash completely. I'm not
sure if it's going to keep updating viruses. The AVG firewall keeps
coming on, although I thought 7.0/7.5 never had one. A scan seems to
work okay. the system tray icon is always black and white.

Some elements of 8 must have remained although I uninstalled it, eh?
 
I want to add: I have a backup CD from AVG when I got 7.5. I wonder
if I should try to install that.
 
Contact AVG support.

"Richard Fangnail" <richardfangnail@excite.com> wrote in message
news:756f0b5b-1393-4cd0-82d1-228b10d334d0@t12g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
:I first bought AVG 7.0 (not free) in Feb 2007 and it worked okay. I
: also upgraded to 7.5 a few months ago and it was okay.
:
: Last night I upgraded to 8.0 and I hated it so I uninstalled it. I
: didn't like the idea of its having its own firewall and it often asked
: me if I should allow/disallow something.
:
: The only AVG big exe file was the one from Feb 2007 so I installed
: that. Sometime along the way, it said my AVG was too old to get
: updates so there was a "repair" file which I used. I am not clear
: what it did.
:
: It now says 7.5 and not 7.0 all over the program and it's acting
: quirky. If I click on Test Center it will crash completely. I'm not
: sure if it's going to keep updating viruses. The AVG firewall keeps
: coming on, although I thought 7.0/7.5 never had one. A scan seems to
: work okay. the system tray icon is always black and white.
:
: Some elements of 8 must have remained although I uninstalled it, eh?
 
AVG offers free support for AVG Pro versions, Richard. You paid for it,
too!

Richard Fangnail wrote:
> I first bought AVG 7.0 (not free) in Feb 2007 and it worked okay. I
> also upgraded to 7.5 a few months ago and it was okay.
>
> Last night I upgraded to 8.0 and I hated it so I uninstalled it. I
> didn't like the idea of its having its own firewall and it often asked
> me if I should allow/disallow something.
>
> The only AVG big exe file was the one from Feb 2007 so I installed
> that. Sometime along the way, it said my AVG was too old to get
> updates so there was a "repair" file which I used. I am not clear
> what it did.
>
> It now says 7.5 and not 7.0 all over the program and it's acting
> quirky. If I click on Test Center it will crash completely. I'm not
> sure if it's going to keep updating viruses. The AVG firewall keeps
> coming on, although I thought 7.0/7.5 never had one. A scan seems to
> work okay. the system tray icon is always black and white.
>
> Some elements of 8 must have remained although I uninstalled it, eh?
 
The problem is, they will probably just tell me to load AVG 8, won't
they? If not, it will probably be something long and complicated to
fix what I have!
 
Don't put the cart before the horse.

Richard Fangnail wrote:
> The problem is, they will probably just tell me to load AVG 8, won't
> they? If not, it will probably be something long and complicated to
> fix what I have!
 
as long as you have the pro they will help you
robin
"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Don't put the cart before the horse.
>
> Richard Fangnail wrote:
>> The problem is, they will probably just tell me to load AVG 8, won't
>> they? If not, it will probably be something long and complicated to
>> fix what I have!
 
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