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Free Avast 2014 and Windows 8.1
« on: Monday 17 March 14 19:46 GMT (UK) »
Before I try and download Free Avast 2014 to my son's laptop which is running Windows 8.1 I would be pleased to know if anyone has done this and were there any problems.

Another question - would you rely on Windows Defender as your only protection, from what I have read it is not sufficient.

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Re: Free Avast 2014 and Windows 8.1
« Reply #1 on: Monday 17 March 14 19:49 GMT (UK) »
I dont know about that one, but I've got the free AVG on mine with Windows 8.1 and had no problems.
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Re: Free Avast 2014 and Windows 8.1
« Reply #2 on: Monday 17 March 14 19:58 GMT (UK) »
Thank you groom.  Will see if there are any more comments but AVG will be my second choice.

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Re: Free Avast 2014 and Windows 8.1
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 19 March 14 12:26 GMT (UK) »
I have had Avast on several PC's, only for XP however but my son has Windows 8.1 with Avast. So far we have had no problems.
I did use AVG previously but gave up on it after several false positives caused it to delete files or refuse to allow me to install programs.

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Re: Free Avast 2014 and Windows 8.1
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 19 March 14 15:21 GMT (UK) »
Many thanks Stu - that gives me more confidence to go ahead!

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