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Re: AVG 8 Free Better Than 7.5 After Tweaking 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. |
