AVG Free version update to vers. 8 ???

[CGB]

I run AVG free and have the machine automatically check for updates. I
noticed today that people on this list have been talking about a free vers.
8. I checked mine and it's vers 7.5.524. My machine hasn't automatically
updated??? I did a manual update and it says I am updated.

I clicked on the link to Grisoft that you folks mentioned and there is a
free version 8 available. Also, just noted when I go to "Control Center"
that it tells me a version 8 is available but linking to it gives me the
option to get a vers 8 that one must pay for.
What gives? When I "Check for Updates" why doesn't it tell me that the free
program has an update available. I suspect I'm missing something here and
would appreciate some guidance.

Is the free version 8 just a free antivirus program? Is the version 8 that
one pays for, something more, i.e. "internet security?" The page that one
links to from my program has a table that compares vers. 8 to free vers.
7.5.

I don't mean to look a gift horse in the mouth but wouldn't it be nice if
the update feature on the free version of AVG antivirus would tell me there
is a newer version of the program, not just newer versions of the virus
definitions.......or does it?

Thanks.

Carl

[CGB]

Found the link, downloaded it, installed it, seems to work. Perhaps my
area of most confusion was re: Why didn't my check for automatic updates
via version 7.5.524 tell me there was a newer version? Do I need to keep
glued to this newsgroup (which I probably do anyhow) to find out when vers.
9 comes out? One would think that the program would do that for me.

Thanks.

Carl

"CGB" <nospam@nospam.net> wrote in message
news:lbKdnUUtVOa_XYHVnZ2dnUVZ_gCdnZ2d@comcast.com. ..
>I run AVG free and have the machine automatically check for updates. I
>noticed today that people on this list have been talking about a free
>vers. 8. I checked mine and it's vers 7.5.524. My machine hasn't
>automatically updated??? I did a manual update and it says I am updated.
>
> I clicked on the link to Grisoft that you folks mentioned and there is a
> free version 8 available. Also, just noted when I go to "Control Center"
> that it tells me a version 8 is available but linking to it gives me the
> option to get a vers 8 that one must pay for.
> What gives? When I "Check for Updates" why doesn't it tell me that the
> free program has an update available. I suspect I'm missing something
> here and would appreciate some guidance.
>
> Is the free version 8 just a free antivirus program? Is the version 8
> that one pays for, something more, i.e. "internet security?" The page
> that one links to from my program has a table that compares vers. 8 to
> free vers. 7.5.
>
> I don't mean to look a gift horse in the mouth but wouldn't it be nice if
> the update feature on the free version of AVG antivirus would tell me
> there is a newer version of the program, not just newer versions of the
> virus definitions.......or does it?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Carl
>
>
>
>

[Quilljar]

Version 8 is not an update. It is a new version. You can continue with V7+
if you wish. V8 is free the samw as V7.

--
Yours Quilly,

[TacAN]

Even when I was using the 7.5 version, after every update, I would get a
pop-up type window that told me that ver 8 was available. (but never gave a
link to the free version - someone in another group supplied a link)
Did you not get this????
I was driving me crackers.

Besides that I had to reboot the pertooter after *every* update.

I surrendered & downloaded the ver8 - so far so good.

Graham

"CGB" <nospam@nospam.net> wrote in message
news:qt6dnZpSUeg9TIHVnZ2dnUVZ_v-hnZ2d@comcast.com...
> Found the link, downloaded it, installed it, seems to work. Perhaps my
> area of most confusion was re: Why didn't my check for automatic updates
> via version 7.5.524 tell me there was a newer version? Do I need to keep
> glued to this newsgroup (which I probably do anyhow) to find out when
> vers. 9 comes out? One would think that the program would do that for me.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Carl
>
> "CGB" <nospam@nospam.net> wrote in message
> news:lbKdnUUtVOa_XYHVnZ2dnUVZ_gCdnZ2d@comcast.com. ..
>>I run AVG free and have the machine automatically check for updates. I
>>noticed today that people on this list have been talking about a free
>>vers. 8. I checked mine and it's vers 7.5.524. My machine hasn't
>>automatically updated??? I did a manual update and it says I am updated.
>>
>> I clicked on the link to Grisoft that you folks mentioned and there is a
>> free version 8 available. Also, just noted when I go to "Control Center"
>> that it tells me a version 8 is available but linking to it gives me the
>> option to get a vers 8 that one must pay for.
>> What gives? When I "Check for Updates" why doesn't it tell me that the
>> free program has an update available. I suspect I'm missing something
>> here and would appreciate some guidance.
>>
>> Is the free version 8 just a free antivirus program? Is the version 8
>> that one pays for, something more, i.e. "internet security?" The page
>> that one links to from my program has a table that compares vers. 8 to
>> free vers. 7.5.
>>
>> I don't mean to look a gift horse in the mouth but wouldn't it be nice if
>> the update feature on the free version of AVG antivirus would tell me
>> there is a newer version of the program, not just newer versions of the
>> virus definitions.......or does it?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Carl
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>

[CGB]

Never got any notice from the program that a version 8 was available. I
just noted some comments about it on this newsgroup. I ran "update" on my
program and it told me all was up-to-date. I went to the company's web
site, saw it there, and downloaded it and installed it. My installed
program, 7.5. never told me about it.

I never got a popuup window after updating. I do run popup blockers but
they usually tell me that a web site tried to pop something up. If it were
the home page for AVG, I would have let it through.

I got an occasional reboot request, not when virus definitions were the
only update.

Carl

"TacAN" <zzz@xxx.xxx> wrote in message
news:cpfTj.7462$ko5.1699@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> Even when I was using the 7.5 version, after every update, I would get a
> pop-up type window that told me that ver 8 was available. (but never gave
> a link to the free version - someone in another group supplied a link)
> Did you not get this????
> I was driving me crackers.
>
> Besides that I had to reboot the pertooter after *every* update.
>
> I surrendered & downloaded the ver8 - so far so good.
>
> Graham
>
> "CGB" <nospam@nospam.net> wrote in message
> news:qt6dnZpSUeg9TIHVnZ2dnUVZ_v-hnZ2d@comcast.com...
>> Found the link, downloaded it, installed it, seems to work. Perhaps my
>> area of most confusion was re: Why didn't my check for automatic updates
>> via version 7.5.524 tell me there was a newer version? Do I need to keep
>> glued to this newsgroup (which I probably do anyhow) to find out when
>> vers. 9 comes out? One would think that the program would do that for
>> me.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Carl

[Gaz]

CGB wrote:
> Never got any notice from the program that a version 8 was available.
> I just noted some comments about it on this newsgroup. I ran
> "update" on my program and it told me all was up-to-date. I went to
> the company's web site, saw it there, and downloaded it and installed
> it. My installed program, 7.5. never told me about it.
>
> I never got a popuup window after updating. I do run popup blockers
> but they usually tell me that a web site tried to pop something up. If it
> were the home page for AVG, I would have let it through.
>
> I got an occasional reboot request, not when virus definitions were the
> only update.
>
> Carl
>


Version 8 by the way is awful, it has a much greater footprint then avg7.5,
the scanning engine is much much slower, it is sluggish and adds
considerable time to boot up. I would no longer recommend AVG for an older
machine (less then 1gb and slower then dual core).

Gaz

[Dave Seven]

Gaz wrote:

> Version 8 by the way is awful, it has a much greater footprint then avg7.5,
> the scanning engine is much much slower, it is sluggish and adds
> considerable time to boot up. I would no longer recommend AVG for an older
> machine (less then 1gb and slower then dual core).
>
> Gaz
>
>

It scans for spyware too and not just virus now so that is probably why.

[TacAN]

"Gaz" <gazter@msn.com> wrote in message
news:688cmuF2o69asU1@mid.individual.net...
> Version 8 by the way is awful, it has a much greater footprint then
> avg7.5, the scanning engine is much much slower, it is sluggish and adds
> considerable time to boot up. I would no longer recommend AVG for an older
> machine (less then 1gb and slower then dual core).
>
> Gaz
>

What peeves me about the new release .....

I did a full scan, both at high and slow speeds and it detected *over*
10,000 (yes ten thousand) references to CoolWebSearch plus assorted other
nasties. Yet reported *none* of them being critical.
All of these were references in the registry.

My up to date version of SpyBot Search and Destroy plus a couple of other
scanners that I use reported nothing!!!

Any thoughts on what is going on???

Graham