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  • Loading Problem With Free AVG

    From cory@right.here.com@1:396/4 to All on Fri Oct 26 22:25:33 2018
    From: cory@right.here.com

    I'm giving up on paid AV products because of their ridiculous prices.
    I have 5 computers, and the cost each year for an AV product has
    become too much.

    I'm using XP SP 3. I initially tried the Free AVG. It never would
    load on boot. I had to manually load it each time. I uninstalled it
    after a few days. I then tried Kaspersky Free. Kaspersky was too
    annoying with it's pop ups regarding Web page certificates, plus my
    newsreader Agent wouldn't download bodies unless I turned off
    Kaspersky.

    I got rid of Kaspersky and tried AVG again. Same problem as the first
    time. It had to be manually loaded after a boot. Which, I think,
    leaves my machine unprotected during boot. Right?

    Is anyone else using XP having such problems? AVG is supposed to be
    able to work with XP. Kaspersky isn't, but I thought I'd try it since
    that is the one I've always subscribed to. On top of all this, from
    what I read in Amazon reviews, lots of people are having all kinds of
    problems even with the ones they spent money for.

    Any XP users have a suggestion about a freebie AV that works with XP?
    --- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2
    * Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4)
  • From Ernie B.@1:396/4 to All on Sat Oct 27 01:41:12 2018
    From: "Ernie B." <ernie-baresch@neb.rr.com>

    On Sat, 27 Oct 2018 09:25:33 -0500, cory@right.here.com wrote:


    Any XP users have a suggestion about a freebie AV that works with XP?

    Avast! <https://www.avast.com/en-us/free-antivirus-download>
    --
    Ernie B.

    Communication: The art of moving an idea from one mind to another,
    hopefully without distortion.
    --- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2
    * Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4)
  • From cory@right.here.com@1:396/4 to All on Sat Oct 27 07:10:12 2018
    From: cory@right.here.com

    On Sat, 27 Oct 2018 12:41:12 -0500, "Ernie B."
    <ernie-baresch@neb.rr.com> wrote:

    On Sat, 27 Oct 2018 09:25:33 -0500, cory@right.here.com wrote:


    Any XP users have a suggestion about a freebie AV that works with XP?

    Avast! <https://www.avast.com/en-us/free-antivirus-download>

    Avast owns AVG. It's probably as big a pain in the butt as is AVG.
    Avast is also too nosey. It insisted on too much personal info before
    it would activate. I did not like the privacy section in the
    multi-mulit pages of their security and privacy statements. I think
    they want to load tons of your doing's into their cloud.

    I now find that AVG's uninstall proggie won't uninstall AVG. It's
    maddening how these bums take over one's computer. I cannot get rid
    of AVG even at the command line. I now have to use my Acronis True
    Image to reload a previous backup of XP. That's going to take eleven
    hours. I've seven more hours to go.

    Ridiculous is what these AV programs have become. It used to be so
    simple to install/uninstall their software. On top of that they now
    want to screw around with one's "Web Safety" and a bunch of other
    stuff. All I would like is an anti virus, not an intrusive pain in
    the butt which is constantly finding something or other wrong that
    isn't wrong.
    --- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2
    * Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4)
  • From Shadow@1:396/4 to All on Sun Oct 28 09:02:17 2018
    From: Shadow <Sh@dow.br>

    On Sat, 27 Oct 2018 09:25:33 -0500, cory@right.here.com wrote:

    I'm giving up on paid AV products because of their ridiculous prices.
    I have 5 computers, and the cost each year for an AV product has
    become too much.

    I'm using XP SP 3. I initially tried the Free AVG. It never would
    load on boot. I had to manually load it each time. I uninstalled it
    after a few days. I then tried Kaspersky Free. Kaspersky was too
    annoying with it's pop ups regarding Web page certificates, plus my >newsreader Agent wouldn't download bodies unless I turned off
    Kaspersky.

    I got rid of Kaspersky and tried AVG again. Same problem as the first
    time. It had to be manually loaded after a boot. Which, I think,
    leaves my machine unprotected during boot. Right?

    Is anyone else using XP having such problems? AVG is supposed to be
    able to work with XP. Kaspersky isn't, but I thought I'd try it since
    that is the one I've always subscribed to. On top of all this, from
    what I read in Amazon reviews, lots of people are having all kinds of >problems even with the ones they spent money for.

    Any XP users have a suggestion about a freebie AV that works with XP?

    AVs usually have a way to turn off email, web and cloud
    "protection". Well, they used to. Annoyance gone.

    As to loading, just copy whatever link you click on to load
    AVG here:

    \Documents and Settings\<User Name>\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\

    ( All users instead of user name if you are not the only one to login)
    []'s

    --
    Don't be evil - Google 2004
    We have a new policy - Google 2012
    --- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2
    * Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4)