Comments on: AVG 8 Free Edition – Try A Different Download Site?

By: Ron Schenone

Ron Schenone — Sat, 31 May 2008 15:21:51 +0000

Hi Merna,
Here is the link. Thank you.

http://wp3.lockergnome.com/blade/2008/05/31/avg-8-more-helpful-information/

By: AVG 8 - More Helpful Information ~ The Blade by Ron Schenone, MVP

AVG 8 - More Helpful Information ~ The Blade by Ron Schenone, MVP — Sat, 31 May 2008 15:20:02 +0000

[...] received this from reader Merna [under comments here] and checked out the links provided. I believe for those who are having issues with AVG 8 this [...]

By: Ron Schenone

Ron Schenone — Sat, 31 May 2008 14:31:30 +0000

Hi Denny,
Thanks for the info. I also believe that Charlie hasn’t had any issues as well. Plus 6 other systems I have installed it on without issues as well.

Hello Merna,
Thanks for the links and information. I’m going to use your comments for another article on AVG 8. Hopefully all of this information will assist those who are having problems.

I enjoyed reading what Claus had to say. Like him, I feel compelled to write more about the AVG 8 problems, solutions and recommendations.

Thanks so much.

By: Merna

Merna — Sat, 31 May 2008 11:55:43 +0000

Ron,

Thank you for your numerous recent articles about AVG 7.5 and 8.0 (free and paid). For in-depth reports and comments your readers might like to try the following links. I found the two April ones in early May when researching for two discussion groups and just rechecked them for additional readers’ comments before posting here.

On the recheck I found there had been an earlier one in March (when the writer was a beta tester) and there has been a fourth one since. I would suggest reading all of them before trying anything as the later articles and/or readers’ comments contain answers/solutions to some of the problems and/or questions in the earlier ones.

I appreciated the thoroughness of Claus Valca’s posts about AVG and his readers’ comments. (And I think I’ll be having a good look around grandstreamdreams.blogspot.com to see what else he has to say.) My husband is using XP and has upgraded his free AVG to 8.0. I am still using 98SE and free AVG 7.5.

Links:

2008.03.02 grandstreamdreams.blogspot.com/2008/03/thoughts-on-avg-80-francaise.html (no comments)

2008.04.24 grandstreamdreams.blogspot.com/2008/04/avg-free-version-80-releasedfirst.html (five comments)

2008.04.26 grandstreamdreams.blogspot.com/2008/04/taming-avg-free-version-8.html (forty-three comments)

2008.05.17 grandstreamdreams.blogspot.com/2008/05/simple-thoughts-on-avg-free-v8.html (three comments)

An alternate link (to the one you have previously provided) for the AVG Free 8.0 manual is at http://www.grisoft.cz/filedir/doc/AVG_Free/user_manual/avg_afe_uma_en_80_1.pdf .

Merna

By: Denny

Denny — Sat, 31 May 2008 01:59:07 +0000

Hi Ron…

I have Downloaded a New Installer From AVG’s Server
It is an Option You have on there Site..

Put it on 3 Clients ‘Puters No Problems so Far
I Have it on my . XP .and my . . VISTA
for Over a Month . Everthing . MOE–BET-TA
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By: Ron Schenone

Ron Schenone — Fri, 30 May 2008 23:26:00 +0000

Hi leftystrat,
Thanks for sharing your experience. It does seem that some have had to do the same thing as yourself. But once installed V8 works just fine.

I installed it today on a Win XP w/ SP3 system and it worked right away.

Regards, Ron

By: leftystrat

leftystrat — Fri, 30 May 2008 21:49:07 +0000

I prefer AVG to Symantec on the Windows platform. I recently updated the one in my Windows VM to 8, then noticed it wouldn’t update, no matter what I did.

So I uninstalled, reinstalled 7, waited a while, then tried 8 again. In two installations, updating is working fine and performance hasn’t suffered.