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Gualtier Malde
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Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 4:56 am   Post subject: Any problems with AVG8?

I am running Windows 2000 SP 4 and have AVG 7.5 installed. I recently renewed
my subscription and now AVG is urging download and installation of v 8. I am
writing because I think I recall someone describing some trouble with v 8, but I
can't find the reference.

So: Anyone having trouble with v 8 in this environment?

Thanks

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Nokternl
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Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 4:59 am   Post subject: Re: Any problems with AVG8?

On May 15, 6:56 pm, Gualtier Malde <valac...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Quote:

I am running Windows 2000 SP 4 and have AVG 7.5 installed. I recently renewed
my subscription and now AVG is urging download and installation of v 8. I am
writing because I think I recall someone describing some trouble with v 8, but I
can't find the reference.

So: Anyone having trouble with v 8 in this environment?

Thanks

In my office, we have had both good and bad luck, but we've only
installed AVG8 on a handful of Win2k machines. Only one installation
has failed and we weren't exactly sure why this happened. Provided
that memory serves me correctly, i believe it was because SP4 wasn't
installed first, but unfortunately I cannot remember for sure since it
was a while ago. I just wanted to let you know that our office had
trouble with an installation. One thing I do remember as part of one
of the AVG8 upgrade was that there is a Roxio patch that was required
to be installed before AVG8. If believe the installer had the link to
download the update when the error occurred, so you might want to take
that into account if you have it. I hope this helps you on your road
to an answer.

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Gualtier Malde
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Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 2:05 am   Post subject: Re: Any problems with AVG8?

Nokternl wrote:

Quote:

On May 15, 6:56 pm, Gualtier Malde <valac...@yahoo.com> wrote:
I am running Windows 2000 SP 4 and have AVG 7.5 installed. I recently renewed
my subscription and now AVG is urging download and installation of v 8. I am
writing because I think I recall someone describing some trouble with v 8, but I
can't find the reference.

So: Anyone having trouble with v 8 in this environment?

Thanks

In my office, we have had both good and bad luck, but we've only
installed AVG8 on a handful of Win2k machines. Only one installation
has failed and we weren't exactly sure why this happened. Provided
that memory serves me correctly, i believe it was because SP4 wasn't
installed first, but unfortunately I cannot remember for sure since it
was a while ago. I just wanted to let you know that our office had
trouble with an installation. One thing I do remember as part of one
of the AVG8 upgrade was that there is a Roxio patch that was required
to be installed before AVG8. If believe the installer had the link to
download the update when the error occurred, so you might want to take
that into account if you have it. I hope this helps you on your road
to an answer

Thanks - I just got back here. Meanwhile I did install v 8 and it seems OK. I
don't recall a Roxio component, but Roxio is insinuated in so much software
these days that nothing surprises me about it.

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Jim Watt
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 11:57 pm   Post subject: Re: Any problems with AVG8?

On Thu, 15 May 2008 16:56:39 -0700, Gualtier Malde
<valacapt@yahoo.com> wrote:

Quote:

I am running Windows 2000 SP 4 and have AVG 7.5 installed. I recently renewed
my subscription and now AVG is urging download and installation of v 8. I am
writing because I think I recall someone describing some trouble with v 8, but I
can't find the reference.

So: Anyone having trouble with v 8 in this environment?

Thanks

I dislike the feature where it checks website pages for
problems, as it means that if you open a google search
page, it visits all the links.

However it can be turned off, although the tray icon
admonishes you for it with a little red exclamation.
--
Jim Watt
http://www.gibnet.com

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Beachcomber
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 9:19 pm   Post subject: Re: Any problems with AVG8?

Quote:

I dislike the feature where it checks website pages for
problems, as it means that if you open a google search
page, it visits all the links.

However it can be turned off, although the tray icon
admonishes you for it with a little red exclamation.
--
Jim Watt
http://www.gibnet.com

My PC is about 4 years old and I just installed the free version of
AVG 8.

I'm very displeased with the speed reduction. Whatever new features
there are seem to have slowed down the browser to the point where it
is not usable. Browser pages take longer to load and e-mail was
noticably slower as well.

I had to disable the autoload of AVG from the system tray because I
just couldn't stand it anymore. I'm one of those who had used the
previous freeware version of AVG for years without any problems.

This new version seems to have a stanglehold over system resources
unless perhaps, your computer is one of the newest and fastest models
or perhaps the PAY version works better.

Anyone know for sure? Anyone else see the slowdown?

Beachcomber

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Sebastian G.
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 9:37 pm   Post subject: Re: Any problems with AVG8?

Beachcomber wrote:

Quote:

I'm very displeased with the speed reduction. Whatever new features
there are seem to have slowed down the browser to the point where it
is not usable. Browser pages take longer to load and e-mail was
noticably slower as well.

Maybe you should disable the web and mail scanning proxy? As any competent
person would do?

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jc
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 9:59 pm   Post subject: Re: Any problems with AVG8?

Jim Watt wrote:

Quote:

On Thu, 15 May 2008 16:56:39 -0700, Gualtier Malde
valacapt@yahoo.com> wrote:

I am running Windows 2000 SP 4 and have AVG 7.5 installed. I recently renewed
my subscription and now AVG is urging download and installation of v 8. I am
writing because I think I recall someone describing some trouble with v 8, but I
can't find the reference.

So: Anyone having trouble with v 8 in this environment?

Thanks

I dislike the feature where it checks website pages for
problems, as it means that if you open a google search
page, it visits all the links.

That's an interesting idea. Probably not as effective as safe surfing
and blocking scripts, but maybe with a whitelist it could be feasible.

jc

Quote:

However it can be turned off, although the tray icon
admonishes you for it with a little red exclamation.
--
Jim Watt
http://www.gibnet.com

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David James
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 10:48 pm   Post subject: Re: Any problems with AVG8?

I'm having issues on my windoze box with it scanning emails and crashing,
but I only use it as a back up.

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jc
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Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 6:41 am   Post subject: Re: Any problems with AVG8?

David James wrote:

Quote:

I'm having issues on my windoze box with it scanning emails and crashing,
but I only use it as a back up.

It sounds like they got ambitious but also got hit by a deadline. You
might wait for 8.1 to be released.

jc

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Gualtier Malde
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Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 9:24 am   Post subject: Re: Any problems with AVG8?

Beachcomber wrote:

Quote:

I dislike the feature where it checks website pages for
problems, as it means that if you open a google search
page, it visits all the links.

However it can be turned off, although the tray icon
admonishes you for it with a little red exclamation.
--
Jim Watt
http://www.gibnet.com

My PC is about 4 years old and I just installed the free version of
AVG 8.

I'm very displeased with the speed reduction. Whatever new features
there are seem to have slowed down the browser to the point where it
is not usable. Browser pages take longer to load and e-mail was
noticably slower as well.

I had to disable the autoload of AVG from the system tray because I
just couldn't stand it anymore. I'm one of those who had used the
previous freeware version of AVG for years without any problems.

This new version seems to have a stanglehold over system resources
unless perhaps, your computer is one of the newest and fastest models
or perhaps the PAY version works better.

Anyone know for sure? Anyone else see the slowdown?

Beachcomber

As the OP of this thread: I finally did update and I have been quite pleased. I

missed the tray icon that shows when a scan is being done and wrote AVG about
it. While waiting for their reply I found that, during a scan only, the GUI
shows a tag for "Scheduled Scan" and that allows pausing or canceling of a scan.
Then I got the letter from AVG and they said that they were going to return
the tray icon, as well.

The scan takes longer for some reason but I'm rarely in a hurry and find other
things to do while it is going on.

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Jim Watt
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Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 4:14 pm   Post subject: Re: Any problems with AVG8?

On 28 May 2008 17:48:40 GMT, David James <stopthepigeon@hotmail.com>
wrote:

Quote:

I'm having issues on my windoze box with it scanning emails and crashing,
but I only use it as a back up.

Then turn the feature off !
--
Jim Watt
http://www.gibnet.com

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Klunk
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Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 4:45 pm   Post subject: Re: Any problems with AVG8?

On Thu, 29 May 2008 13:14:07 +0200, Jim Watt passed an empty day by
writing:

Quote:

On 28 May 2008 17:48:40 GMT, David James <stopthepigeon@hotmail.com
wrote:

I'm having issues on my windoze box with it scanning emails and
crashing, but I only use it as a back up.

Then turn the feature off !

Why not just shut the whole package off on that logic and get something
that works - you stupid trolling f**kwit

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Sebastian G.
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Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 4:52 pm   Post subject: Re: Any problems with AVG8?

Klunk wrote:

Quote:

On Thu, 29 May 2008 13:14:07 +0200, Jim Watt passed an empty day by
writing:

On 28 May 2008 17:48:40 GMT, David James <stopthepigeon@hotmail.com
wrote:

I'm having issues on my windoze box with it scanning emails and
crashing, but I only use it as a back up.
Then turn the feature off !

Why not just shut the whole package off on that logic and get something
that works - you stupid trolling f**kwit

Actually this would be the best choice, since aside from introducing local
privilege escalation vulnerabilities such virus scanners are pretty useless.
Why not try ClamWin which works as an unprivileged process, combined with
WinSnoop which triggers scan activity on FileChangeNotifications?

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Klunk
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Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 8:23 pm   Post subject: Re: Any problems with AVG8?

On Thu, 29 May 2008 13:52:35 +0200, Sebastian G. passed an empty day by
writing:

Quote:

Klunk wrote:

On Thu, 29 May 2008 13:14:07 +0200, Jim Watt passed an empty day by
writing:

On 28 May 2008 17:48:40 GMT, David James <stopthepigeon@hotmail.com
wrote:

I'm having issues on my windoze box with it scanning emails and
crashing, but I only use it as a back up.
Then turn the feature off !

Why not just shut the whole package off on that logic and get something
that works - you stupid trolling f**kwit

Actually this would be the best choice, since aside from introducing
local privilege escalation vulnerabilities such virus scanners are
pretty useless. Why not try ClamWin which works as an unprivileged
process, combined with WinSnoop which triggers scan activity on
FileChangeNotifications?

Can't find any info on WinSnoop even google lets me down, got a link?

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Sebastian G.
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Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 8:53 pm   Post subject: Re: Any problems with AVG8?

Klunk wrote:

Quote:

Can't find any info on WinSnoop even google lets me down, got a link?

Argh, it should read "WinPooch". Though it does not only use change
notifications, but also some IAT hooking. :-/

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