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reply to danny9

Re: AVG 8 Free Better Than 7.5 After Tweaking

said by danny9:

Thanks for the tips but my question is why any user should have to go thru all this bs just to get it to work right?
It should work right out of the box.
To many other good av's out there to chose from.
Just my opnion.

You're welcome - I corrected the embedded link. This is just a capsule of my notes which I've distributed to those folks I've recommended AVG to over time.

Now they're not so mad at me !

Hey, at least it's not an old TR-3 with twin SU Carbs ! ( Now THAT was tweaking - using a toilet paper tube to sinc the carbs ! )

Yeah those Bustards! ("Bustards" are an extinct bird, btw)

How dare they change anything? I want my money back! Oh, yeah...it was free...
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...something is happening here but you don't know what it is...do you, Mr. Jones?

reply to OverBurn

said by OverBurn:

Good point, but I've used AVG for a long time and I don't mind doing a little tweaking. I'm a tweaker, whether it's a car or a PC, I have to tweak every setting or any part that's tweakable. Takes me weeks to get my PC setup the way I want it after a fresh install.

I found after checking into the new d/l for free avg, if you do a custom install, you get to uncheck boxes for the safe search, email, and plugins. So, you don't really have to do any tweaking except to get rid of the nag and that is easy.

reply to major marco

said by major marco:

said by OverBurn:

Good point, but I've used AVG for a long time and I don't mind doing a little tweaking. I'm a tweaker, whether it's a car or a PC, I have to tweak every setting or any part that's tweakable. Takes me weeks to get my PC setup the way I want it after a fresh install.

I've used AVG for the past 9 yrs and am not in the slightest bit inclined to jump throught the hoops you've jumped through in order to get the app working to your satisfaction. The other guy got it right: It should work out of the box. And, I might add, I shouldn't have to be a freakin' coder in order to "tweak" it. AVG is dead to me now.

As promised I have an update on the install of AVG8 plus Firewall on my Inspiron laptop. After running around with Dell regarding the hard drive I finally purchased one outside of Dell and got it all freshly installed with XP SP3. BTW, I would love to choke the crap out of the "Dude, you should have got a Dell" guy....I now remember why I'm not a Dell fan! It was a complete pain messing with them.

In any event I got everything installed properly (drivers, etc.) without the Dell bloatware and running great. I proceeded to install AVG8 plus Firewall. At the end of the install I received a fatal error and the laptop rebooted. Upon reboot my wireless was bricked!! AVG8 had only partially installed, and I had no wireless access, and was unable to fix the issue. It had pancaked my wireless adapter, making it impossible to even connect to my router via wireless, much less run the thing.

I was able to fix the issue by going back to a prior restore point. Then installed AVG 7.5 plus Firewall and all is great. But just being honest here....I did have major issues with the AVG8 plus Firewall on install. I believe it was the firewall portion of the install that crapped.

So I have had 2 very different experiences with AVG8. On my custom tower all is well with AVG8 Pro, while the laptop choked on the AVG8 plus Firewall install. I can't really state how AVG8 ran on the laptop, as I was unable to get the laptop to the point of being able to actually run the thing with AVG8. Back to AVG 7.5 plus Firewall does fix my issue for now.