AVG Free Caution
Users of AVG free for windows may have recently been confronted with a dialogue saying that their anti virus support would cease in January 2007. This is in fact not true and is just an adertising gimmik to try and make you buy one of grisoft’s paid for products. Do not hand over your credit card details!
While it is true that AVG free version 7.1 will cease to work in January 2007 you can download AVG free version 7.5 that will continue to work after that date and long into the future without paying a penny. When you see the dialogue pop up, click the tiny link on the bottom left, then on the web page that comes up you will see a load of products. On the bottom of that page click to download AVG free 7.5, again the link text is small. Installing this file and restarting your machine will leave you protected (as long as you download regular updates as normal) for a long time after January 2007.
Just thought I would warn everyone who might otherwise end up feeling they have to pay to get continued protection – you don’t – AVG free is still going to be just that, free.
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Peter Fogarty Said,
November 9, 2006 @ 7:59 pm
Thanks for the clarifications and download details on the AVG situation. I thought it smelt a bit fishy and Googled a query. You seem to be one of the few out there with the answers, cheers.
Pete
Personal Website of Kieran O’Shea » AVG at it again Said,
May 11, 2008 @ 2:02 pm
[…] I wrote back in 2006 about AVG’s crafty tactics to get you to part with money you didn’t need to part with and it now seems they are at it again. […]