Another End Date For AVG Support For Version 7.5

I have never had a problem with AVG over the years (and have used it for many, noe using the free version) 7.5 was ok, but AVG 8 is a nightmare and then some, stopped me receiving and sending emails shut down Firefox & IE loading pages, even interfered with downloads (those that should have taken a minute or two, took forever) and then came up with a problem, tried the on-line forum that was a big help NOT (I gave them more information than I received) So I gave up and am now using Avast, works a little different but, seems ok.

The marketing executives at AVG have decided to continue the scare campaign with a new popup warning - using their version of the expiry date - July 25th. This is the third “expiry date” popup warning message - the first two dates proved to be “wrong” and I am sure this one will prove to be untrue as well. Meanwhile the AVG Free Forum still states the August 31st date is correct.

Again I am stunned that AVG still seem to believe that using these scare tactics is an acceptable business practice for a security company. Surely telling the truth is a requirement for a company in the IT security industry that expects your trust? This is extremely damaging to the company reputation.

Greetings all,

["AVG Free v8 now seems pretty stable "]

Unfortunately not at all - it has serious instability bug with up to 100% CPU usage plus some issues with Office. I am sure it applies to payed version as well
The bad thing is it is impossible to send e-mail to AVG support for free users.
If anybody know how to do that please reply.
I prepared some info for them.
Sure I can post in Free forum but I am kinda not in the mood because it is irritating when common serious issue cannot be emailed. I am not expecting any answer from them just wanna let them know…. Anyway..
Cheers all

The only suggestion I would give re continued v8 instability is to do a complete uninstall and registry cleanup followed by a reboot. Then reinstall with the new 138 build installer and choose the Custom Install option. Deselect the Linkscanner and the Office plugin leaving only the basic program.

I have seen the problems you describe many times with the older builds even after upgrading to the latest version. But the uninstall, cleanup and reinstall has worked on all the systems I have used it on with no more 100% cpu episodes.

Hi all & DougCuk

First, I may ask moderator to remove my message about rejection. It was just surprising that after some time of approval the initial message disappeared for a quite a while.

Then, thanks for suggestion, but it was done with initial 8.100 and then with 8.134/135 when first modules update came. the bug is there and replicable. And I know a lil bit about computers and how to investigate some matters:
- very clean re installations;
- completely shutting down “all others”, which can interfere;
- disabling modules in AVG, etc, who may interfere;
-and so on…
Bug!
Well bad luck… if it is impossible to pass message to support when you are free user
I know workaround which is simple to kill hanging scanning processes (which are scannig nothing at that time)

Build 100 was a dog - 134 had a nasty bug which was fixed in 135. Build 138 was the first I considered safe to install on my customers computers.

AVG Free v8.0.138 was the major SP1 update - which seems to fix a lot of issues - but some if them only get fixed if you do a clean install. It must resets some registry settings I assume.

As you said previously there appear to be some issues with the Office plugin - I choose not to install it. Linkscanner in the Free version has now been neutered so I do not see much advantage in using it - plus AVG is cleaner and faster without all the Toolbar addons it uses.

Hi DougCuk,
Thanks for reply.
Well, yes 100 was a dog. And I am not using web related stuff from the very beginning.
Probably I may try clean/clean again despite I tried. I cleaned dreg myself
Do they have their own after uninstall-cleaner Tool like many have?
Then I eventually posted in the forum. Please have a look if you are interested (link below).
Can you try one of the scenarios? Well the best is to stop Scheduled scan - that “works” 100% here.
But you may succeed if you run many Shell Extensions (sure with huge folders so you have time to stop few.
If you confirm that you don’t have the bug I described I will try to reinstall again.
Almost forgot… You may find several reports about CPU usage the may be a bit different I saw one with different module to blame.
I am pretty sure that something fishy is still there and it was not fixed in 138…
The forum link:
http://freeforum.avg.com/read.php?12,138109,backpage=,sv=

Cheers

100 is a dog, I am updating to 175, hope all of these update issues are fixed.

I was running 100, and I was continually getting the popup to initiate a restart for update. I shut off the alerts and changed many settings and now I am having problems updating at all, as I disabled the box that restarts the computer by AVG.

175 is alright I hope…