AVG 7/8 - general story

[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?

 

[Richard Fangnail]

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.

 

[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

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?

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

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?

 

[Richard Fangnail]

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!

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

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!

 

[Robinb]

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!