Sorry for AVG trial mode

Then still have AVG trial mode someday?

Well, I actually came here for that specific download, and I am quite disappointed it’s gone. Of course it looks like it’s AVG’s fault, not yours, but I’d sure like to know more about what happened.
Regards.
Poezii

Impressed by how GAOTD turned around on the AVG “freebie”.
Keep up the good work!!

Thanks for the heads up. Probably will be a lot of disappointed people today …. but there’s always tomorrow.

Today, I was quite lucky that I was success installed the AVG for three PCs except my home notebook not catch up time to be installed. This new version AVG is very good and fast scans my hard disk over 1TB data. Anyway, thanks lots GAOTD.

Comodo has a combination firewall and anti-virus that works exceptionally well on Vista 32 bit. Its freeware. The Mrs. uses Avast anti-virus on her Windows 7 and it, too works great. Its freeware, too.

Bot are definitely worth a look. Jus’ sayin’.

Good call on AVG. Used it in the past, had quirky problems from time to time. One morning I got up, and it had disappeared; was totally compromised. Since then I’ve thought it an interesting coincidence that the fake.alert trojan that showed up around that time looked just like the AVG interface. I’m with $4 and #6, Avast and Comodo free versions never leave the top 3 in most effective, highest capture rate of all the free additions. Kapersky is tops in the $$$ catagory, but still no freebie. Thanks GOTD.

I was surprised to see AVG in the GAOTD email because there is not much benefit from an antivirus program for which you cannot get updates.

However, it is good to see how fast GAOTD changed the giveaway. Thanks GAOTD!

That are you talking about? What avg?

You can get AVG 9.0 for free home use. They have it hidden pretty well, though. You can get it from FileHippo here:

http://www.filehippo.com/download_avg_antivirus/

The free version will occasionally ask you if you want to upgrade.

I’ve been using AVG free for a few years, and it has worked well for me.

You mean AVG (Full) Pro suite…That what was on offer earlier…

It was there until 8:20am…then removed for the garbage offered today…

Gotta love the unending garbage software offered here that is less able than 99.9% of the similar ‘Freeware’

AVG is pretty good on detection, but heavy on system resources — both RAM & CPU. It can really slow down a browser on most systems.

Light but good freebies are: Avira Antivir, Avast, & Comodo.

GOLLY GEE!! A mistake!!
I guess you people are entitled to one every once in awhile. (keep up the good work – it is GREATLY appreciated)

For all GAOTD fans: AVG 9 antivirus is as free version (NOT TRIAL) on AVG website. Go there and download. Of course there are some options not available but been using it since January 2010 and no problems so far.

Poster #9:

What is (are) the major difference(s)
between AVG and Avast??

Guy’s give um a break. you can allways go to avgfree.com and get the free version of 9. it’s actualy better than the trial cause it don’t leave tracers in your reg. after you remove it. And you will remove it cause it’s a trial and trials suck so thyere. get a life. quit ur bitchen it’s free remember theres no such thing as a free lunch…………………lol…l8r dudes and dudette’s

i use avast too. very good

I actually upgraded to this version 2 weeks ago and WHAT A HASSLE!!!
It took forever to download and install (download.com which is usually good) and when I installed it, BAM! It was like my computer was trying to work as if it were trying to run through thick glue! My computer was so slow it was impossible to use at times. It actually froze 3 or 4 times. Finally I removed it and my machine came back to life.

What made me realize it was AVG? Because it SCANNED every damned thing the machine was doing! EVERY TIME I opened my e Mail it bogged down as it scanned my mail files. Every time I opened Firefox, it scanned everything on the page and subsequent pages. It was horrible.
I would like to go back to the previous version if possible.

where is it, what are ya talkin about clyde?

It’s ok, I am not interested in AVG after all as they already provided the quite well free version. I don’t see too huge different btwn free and paid version for the antivirus.For those who missed AVG 90 days trial, just go for free version of Avira.That’s better, even when compare to Avg antivirus.

This is ok,thanx for the reply.
Commodo have ver.4 now IS

If AVG isnt any good , as some of you say,then why is it the most downloaded of the freebies ??? I have it as well, however, just wondering if perhaps there might be a a better choice .What do the independent surveys say ??? Just wondering ???

According to Tech Talk and a few other sites after a good Bing or Google AVG always comes in the top three Antivirus programs. Free version or Paid version. Check it out you will find the info.

#9 …hey don’t post the whole list and give them all the title anti viruses, they are all anti spyware, cleaners and loggers, the only two that are true anti viruses are Avast and Avira…and # 11 that answers your question as well. Avira in my opinion is better than Avg because it has an outgoing and incoming block and logger as well as letting you know asap when it finds something, as far as AVG it is very good as well for a freebie…Avast is good when you need a pre-boot scanner but not as good long term, i have used and tested all of them so trust me when i tell you all of this.

#9 You Forgot Avast! :P
Yeah, the are many other free alternatives… :)

I have downloaded the current AVGfree from the internet. If you just google it you will find it. I assume this is the same version of was it a full version? Anyway I have been using AVG for years now and it has recieved excellent reviews and I have had no issues with it whatsoever. I recommend it to friends and enemies. I found Comodo slowed my system down as did Norton. Indepent surveys I’ve read put it at the top of the free antivirus programs so I’m sticking with it. I also run A2 and ad-aware alongside so I don’t have any naughties Check out No:7 Joe’s link I think you’ll find it is V.9 and it’s OK.

I’ve used both Avast! and AVG for years. Basically if the machine is 1.0 GHZ or faster I go with AVAST! and if slower I go with AVG since AVG has always seemed to run better on the slower machines. I like the AVAST! interface much better however.

In terms of virus catching and rescue, I’ve had similar success with both products. Too bad EITHER vendor won’t allow the free version on home based server platforms not in a commercial environment.

I love your site. I am 72 and on ss so am limited on what I can get. I would never have any of these programs if it wasn’t for you. Thank you very very much. I tell everyone about it when they need software. I only download what I think is interesting or that I might want to do something with. I love my computer and love to learn. Thanks again. You rock. M Morgan

Has anyone who downloaded it worked out how to switch it off? (That is a serious request for information, not just a dig at the software.) I was unlucky enough to get in early enough to download it, and it is the worst anti-virus software I have ever tried. It slows my computer down to a point that it is impossible to work on it for long. It asked, on set up, do I want to change my default search engine to Yahoo, I replied “no”, but it changed it anyway. Worst of all, it is viral adware itself, it has hijacked things like my 404 page, and throws up an advert instead (based on the 404, eg if a website called “bongo.com” fails I get an advert for a music site that sells bongos).

So if anyone knows how to switch the bloody thing off please post here, I want to be able to use my computer for more than an hour without having to reboot it!

Many thanks to the GAOTD-Team for their fast reaction to the AVG flop. By the way, I think we all don’t blame YOU and your fine service… it’s not the first problem we had with AVG: The “juniors” working there don’t answer questions, their support (also for sold products) is lousy and their programs are disturbing and corrupting our systems ! These amateurs just don’t care about us users…

Also, many thanks to all the interesting and useful comments in this blog. Excellent community, indeed !!!

AVG antivirus is total rubbish, it misses more threats than any other antivirus out there, if anyone who has AVG installed try NOD32, Panda, Avast or any of the other top brand by doing a scan, you will be in for a shock at what is found on your system, I am a computer engineer and the machines that I get to clear viruses are mostly using AVG Free which does not detect them.

Ummm, hello everybody,

Try Antivir, ABSOLUTELY the best

Like many here I used to use AVG on my machines when they first hit the market, disk kindly provided by the company as they were one of our clients.
But, and it sounds uncharitable I know, the more recent versions seem to have lost something, I know different software finds different problems, some miss what others find, but in the end I found AVG was slowing my notebook and smaller machines too much.
I switched to Clamwin free, seems to do a good job but no on here has mentioned it, any other users? Comments on Clamwin?

What are all you people talking about?
1.) AVG free (version 9) is readily available both from AVG and CNET (www.download.com)
It is completely free and effective;

2.) “the FAKE AntiVirus Software Scam one – where the infected machine displays what looks like an A/V software alerting to an infection ”
I have seen this on several customers computers, running many different AV’s, including AVG, Avira, Avast, McAfee, and Norton.
This is not a virus, but malware; please learn the difference. Once you disable it, you can remove it with Malwarebytes, Ad-Aware, etc.

3.)Avast and Avira are both good products as well. In fact, I install Avira on my customers who don’t have the memory to spare for AVG.
-Yes, AVG uses more memory than Avira, but it also has more features:
Removable disk scanning
E-mail scanning (several different clients)
MS Office plugin
And the best one – the AVG toolbar. The toolbar is what makes it my first choice for customers computers. It won’t STOP a malicious site, but it will at least warn you much of the time for any known malicious sites.
When installing AVG, I do a custom install and uncheck e-mail and office features; most people use webmail and most of my customers don’t have the RAM for the office plugin.
But anytime I get a customer with a duo core processor and more than 2GB of ram (vista, 7) I let it do a default install.

I don’t know why everyone is hatin on AVG so bad – it’s pulled my butt and many of my customer’s butt’s out of the fire PLENTY of times.
It’s not a bad product. Don’t hate AVG because you don’t know how to configure it for your computer.

@Grange

Norton 360 is useless, I hacked it in 5 mins flat. AVG free edition is much better :)

oh right, just another interesting note to add. People who are saying that AVG is slowing down the system, might first check if their previous antivirus is completly removed before installing it. Any trace of old AV software can cause a conflict and slowing down your machine and even make it completly crash.
This is the case for any AV software, you never can have two AV tools installed on the same machine. They are working against each other

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I used AVG9 full for a while until I had fraud committed on my on line banking.Some body got through my security and drawed money out of my account. Who’s to blame? How did they get in? The bank won’t say and I’m not taking any chances I’ve always figured if it’s free…somewhere somehow some body is getting something?? Any how to each it’s own. I’m using McFee and I’m not saying it’s full proof but so far they are right in back my every movement and even ahesd of my every movement.It’s free for a year for three computers…so far I will renew when the time come.I received it through Bank Of America.
Happy Browsing to all.