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Name: Cobra_R
Date: April 24, 2008 at 20:20:13 Pacific
OS: Windows Vista Ultima
CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon X2 4400+
Product: Custom
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For those interested, AVG 8.0 Free Edition is out now. You can find it at this link below.

http://free.grisoft.com/ww.download...



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Response Number 1
Name: Intel 80486 (by meisinscotland)
Date: April 25, 2008 at 07:43:06 Pacific
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Is it any good?

Teh uber pwnage laptop: 2006 Medion MIM 2080
256MB RAM, 16MB graphics share, 1500MHz VIA C7, 40GB HD
Windows XP SP2 Home ed., Puppy Linux 2.16.


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Response Number 2
Name: XpUser
Date: April 25, 2008 at 08:26:03 Pacific
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Is it any good?

Why not take a look at the following link to check the free vs paid versions?

http://www.grisoft.com/ww.special-a...

i_Xp/VistaUser


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Response Number 3
Name: Intel 80486 (by meisinscotland)
Date: April 25, 2008 at 09:58:09 Pacific
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Sorry if the question seemed rather blunt but I just avoid most of these types of software altogether, I still like to be up to scratch on them though.

Medion MIM 2080
Toshiba T2130CT
Macintosh Performa 450

All working wonderfully.


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Response Number 4
Name: Cobra_R
Date: April 25, 2008 at 11:51:23 Pacific
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Yes, I like it. It's more indepth then AVG 7.5 and it has some nice featuers like link scan that will scan search pages and tell you if there are any threats to them ahead of time before opening them. It also has a pretty decent spyware scanner to.


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Response Number 5
Name: chiefster69
Date: April 25, 2008 at 15:50:15 Pacific
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for those who use spywareblaster, avg v8 gets very confused with spywareblasters protection and comes up with 100s of warnings about activex registry entry infections. Nearly gave me a heart attack until I worked out they were all false positives


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Response Number 6
Name: ScoobyDoo
Date: April 25, 2008 at 16:29:27 Pacific
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Just be aware that the 8.0 free version will no longer have an email scanner after the 30 trial peroid.


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Response Number 7
Name: Cobra_R
Date: April 25, 2008 at 16:57:15 Pacific
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Says who? I haven't read anything or seen anything that has trial peroid on my e-mail scanner.


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Response Number 8
Name: ScoobyDoo
Date: April 25, 2008 at 18:52:31 Pacific
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"The free product also does not include the round-the-clock email support provided with the commercial products."

Oooopps my bad. I read the line above in their description and took it to mean they no longer providing the email scanner on the free version.


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Response Number 9
Name: Cobra_R
Date: April 25, 2008 at 22:14:25 Pacific
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Oh ok that's e-mail support then. Oh well AVG haven't support the free version of AVG since AVG v5 anyhow.


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Response Number 10
Name: Derek
Date: April 27, 2008 at 16:03:19 Pacific
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As an aside, the paragraph "Viral Irony" here http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie...
makes interesting reading. Seems there is some doubt about the worth of email scanning anyhow.

some other bloke...


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