AVGnotFree

Post by **FatherJack** » November 6th, 2006, 12:57

AVG popped some screen today saying it would not be free after January. Does this mean I have to find something else, and revisit the (literally) scores of friends, family and neighbours I have installed it for?

Post by **Dog Pants** » November 6th, 2006, 13:02

Dunno, but I really struggled finding the free install setup the other day and ended up using an old version and updating it. Sign of things to come maybe.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » November 6th, 2006, 13:15

I love free and "free" (:sweep:) stuff but when it comes to anti-virus I think it's more than worth investing £20-£30 a year.

Post by **deject** » November 6th, 2006, 13:34

That doesn't seem likely, considering they say on their website they're making a free version for Fista.

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » November 6th, 2006, 13:41

This is where working in desktop support comes in very handy *taps nose*

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » November 6th, 2006, 17:35

Its only that version that discontinues from Jan. Theres a new one (7.5) now downloadable from their site instead which is free. I think. Thats what I did anyway, and I'm under the firm impression it will be fine.

Post by **ProfHawking** » November 6th, 2006, 18:01

Auntie viruses:
Worth paying for: NOD32
Freeeee: Avast

Post by **FatherJack** » November 6th, 2006, 19:26

Lateralus wrote:Its only that version that discontinues from Jan. Theres a new one (7.5) now downloadable from their site instead which is free. I think. Thats what I did anyway, and I'm under the firm impression it will be fine.

Cool, cheers.

Didn't realise I was still running 7.1, and that it doesn't auto-update to 7.5

Post by **fabyak** » November 7th, 2006, 15:31

Woo Elephant Yeah wrote:This is where working in desktop support comes in very handy *taps nose*

^this

Also working for a major AV company helps

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » November 13th, 2006, 15:53

On the subject of AVG...

IT SUCKS HARD.

Hal's brother recently had an accident with myspace involving zlob, as such i threw avg onto this machine, it found one iffy looking thing and claimed all was happy.

Though the machine was still acting weird, so I just grabbed a trial of sophos and ran a scan, 9 other iffy items were found and dealt with.

Just be careful with AVG, if it can't pick up zlob, i dread to think what else it's missing.

Post by **Dog Pants** » November 13th, 2006, 16:42

I just installed Avast this weekend because dodgy things have been happening since I did my reinstall and decided not to use mcaffee. I may well fork out for an AV subscription after all this. Any suggestions Fabyak?

Post by **FatherJack** » November 13th, 2006, 17:01

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:Just be careful with AVG, if it can't pick up zlob, i dread to think what else it's missing.

It's always best to scan with a couple, particularly when something's happened, there was a nice thread which had quite a few scanners in which is always useful.

The only trouble I've seen with it, is where one of my nontechnical relatives got a virus alert, yet clicked "open anyway". From that point efforts to detect the virus proved fruitless, either because the action had flagged it to ignore, or the activated virus had masked itself.

Post by **deject** » November 13th, 2006, 17:06

Dog Pants wrote:I just installed Avast this weekend because dodgy things have been happening since I did my reinstall and decided not to use mcaffee. I may well fork out for an AV subscription after all this. Any suggestions Fabyak?

NOD32 seems to be the best for-pay AV scanner out there.