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Topic: Free AVG 9 with Dial up. Completed. (Read 1015 times)
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GrahamH
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Not quite the answer you are looking for, I think, but if I were on dial up I would be looking for an alternative source.
AVG is one of those programs which is often included on computer magazine cover disks. It may cost a few pounds for a magazine one would not normally buy but a lot less hassle than trying to download - and there might even be other software on the cover disk that would come in useful.
Graham
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Nick29
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Well you could use a download manager, but that would have to be downloaded too. I think it might be more cost effective to buy a recognised retail product which would also include a firewall and heuristic virus detection, which AVG free does not have.
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Best Wishes, Nick. Research interests: Field - Luton & Islington Hole - Somerset, Suffolk & Surrey Farnish, Parker, Cattermole, Last, Wasp, Church - Suffolk Lewin/Lowin/Lowen - Hertfordhire Martin - Eltham & Greenwich, Kent (London) Stead - Greenwich, London (Kent) & Maidstone Wood - Hertfordshire Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Roger The Hat
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Is there any chance you could get to a Library that has internet access?
You could download it to a memory stick, and then take it home and install it from there.
'Hat.
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Geoff-E
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After 3 days of frustration with AVG 9 I have uninstalled it and installed (free) Avast.
I had used Free AVGs for several years but since installing v9 3 days ago (I'm running Firefox) things have been sooooooooo slow (or stop) when loading web pages. After only three pages with Avast, I can appreciate the increase in speed compared with AVG 8 which I had before.
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Necromancer
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the only anomaly so far I've had with AVG 9 (free version) is that it seems to switch off Windows Defender .....
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Nick29
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............... heuristic virus detection, which AVG free does not have.
Are AVG telling fibs Nick? According to their Documentation (Section 7.1) the free v9 product does use heuristics. Graham
Yes Graham, and in Section 1 it says.....
AVG 9 Free is provided free-of-charge, and its functionality is limited. While using
AVG 9 Free you might discover you would like to have access to further and extended
functionality of AVG as provided within the AVG 8 products
In other words, it's a lure to get you to buy the full product, and if you're paying for AV software, there's a lot better out there.
That's what makes AVG Free so dangerous - you just don't know exactly what you're getting. To be quite frank and brutal, anyone who doesn't want to spend 50p a week on the most important software on their computer deserves all they get.
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Best Wishes, Nick. Research interests: Field - Luton & Islington Hole - Somerset, Suffolk & Surrey Farnish, Parker, Cattermole, Last, Wasp, Church - Suffolk Lewin/Lowin/Lowen - Hertfordhire Martin - Eltham & Greenwich, Kent (London) Stead - Greenwich, London (Kent) & Maidstone Wood - Hertfordshire Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Necromancer
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7.1.1. Anti-Virus Principles
The antivirus software's scanning engine scans all files and file activity (opening/
closing files, etc.) for known viruses. Any detected virus will be blocked from taking
any action and will then be cleaned or quarantined. Most antivirus software also uses
heuristic scanning, where files are scanned for typical virus characteristics, so called
viral signatures. This means that the antivirus scanner can detect a new, unknown
virus, if the new virus contains some typical characteristics of existing viruses.
The important feature of antivirus protection is that no known virus can run on
the computer!
Where just a single technology might fall short of detecting or identifying a virus, Anti-
Virus combines several technologies to ensure that your computer is protected from
viruses:
· Scanning - searching for character strings that are characteristic of a given
virus
· Heuristic analysis - dynamic emulation of the scanned object’s instructions in a
virtual computer environment
· Generic detection - detection of instructions characteristic of the given virus/
group of viruses
AVG is also able to analyze and detect executable applications or DLL libraries that
could be potentially unwanted within the system. We call such threats Potentially
Unwanted Programs (various kinds of spyware, adware etc.). Furthermore, AVG scans
your system registry for suspicious entries, temporary Internet files and tracking
cookies, and allows you to treat all potentially harmful items in the same way as any ......... continues
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Nick29
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Yes, as I explained in a previous post, the manual refers to the full version, and you should read Section 1 which says "AVG 9 Free is provided free-of-charge, and its functionality is limited" but is quite vague about how limited it is.
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Best Wishes, Nick. Research interests: Field - Luton & Islington Hole - Somerset, Suffolk & Surrey Farnish, Parker, Cattermole, Last, Wasp, Church - Suffolk Lewin/Lowin/Lowen - Hertfordhire Martin - Eltham & Greenwich, Kent (London) Stead - Greenwich, London (Kent) & Maidstone Wood - Hertfordshire Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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GrahamH
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............... heuristic virus detection, which AVG free does not have.
Are AVG telling fibs Nick? According to their Documentation (Section 7.1) the free v9 product does use heuristics. Graham Yes Graham, and in Section 1 it says..... AVG 9 Free is provided free-of-charge, and its functionality is limited. While using
AVG 9 Free you might discover you would like to have access to further and extended
functionality of AVG as provided within the AVG 8 productsIn other words, it's a lure to get you to buy the full product, and if you're paying for AV software, there's a lot better out there. That's what makes AVG Free so dangerous - you just don't know exactly what you're getting. To be quite frank and brutal, anyone who doesn't want to spend 50p a week on the most important software on their computer deserves all they get.
Of course it's a lure to get you to buy the full product, that's the same with all similar offers.
It is not true, though, to say people don't know what they are getting. Apart from the manual I referred to previously (which actually tells you what you are getting) there is the comparison page Here which shows clearly that the "further and extended functionality" relates to extra modules over and above the basic three which are consistent throughout the AVG range.
If people have other products equivalent to those extra modules then they are not needed.
Yes, as I explained in a previous post, the manual refers to the full version, and you should read Section 1 which says "AVG 9 Free is provided free-of-charge, and its functionality is limited" but is quite vague about how limited it is.
Err, Nick, the first page of that manual says "AVG 9 Free User Manual" - i.e. Free, not full version. 
Graham
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