Posts Tagged ‘avg’

Security Update Problems

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

I have been using the free antivirus from AVG on my computers for a while now. Just recently they started displaying nag screens about buying their new version 8 security suite. A couple of days ago I found out that the paid version 8 wasn’t the only new release and decided to download the free version 8 to take a look.

All I can say is what a terrible job that they have done as I ended up wasting about 10 hours attempting to install this new program only to end up having trouble finding a copy of the old program (the one that actually works) to reinstall in place of the new mess.

I guess part of the problem is the range of operating systems that I run with some older versions as well as newer ones.

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