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Free Anti-virus
Name: Lesley Date: November 16, 2004 at 09:25:29 Pacific OS: XP+SP2 CPU/Ram: AMD1.3GHz\768Mb
Comment:
I have a friend who is having trouble with the new AVG Vers 7.0
Which (free) alternative(s) would people recommend ?
Name: Lesley Date: November 16, 2004 at 13:50:15 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks for replies - I'll look at Avast
Lesley
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Response Number 5
Name: keltikgent Date: November 17, 2004 at 12:18:55 Pacific
Reply:
hi lesley, i had problems also so what i did was uninstalled it.. reinstalled it and selected custom.then i unchecked the email scanner option.seems to be a problem with that option since i reinstalled without the email scanner avg 7 has been running very well and uses about 12 mb of memory less. keltik
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Response Number 6
Name: Derek Date: November 19, 2004 at 15:20:16 Pacific
Reply:
wawadave
Have I missed the point somewhere?
Your link in #3 seems to go to the download of the new AVG7 which is the package the poster was complaining about.
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