A V G Download For Renewal - Cannot Get Past .exe File On Download

[PeaceBlondie]

It is renewal time for my free AVG anti-virus pgrogram, and I am unable to download from the site they tell me to use at http://www.grisoft.com/ww.93825.tpl-mcr1 It leads me to a download that stops at around 4% of the 46 MB file, stopping somewhere at the .exe file. I am on dial-up, which downloads at around 2 kb per second. Do I need to adjust my PC to download larger files? Or do I have to flagellate my abawanzkishator?

Before posting this, I used both search functions, even advanced stuff like +avg+renewal, and found no relevant topic. Thanks for the help.

Signed, the total idiot for computers, PB

[Guest Reimar]

It is renewal time for my free AVG anti-virus pgrogram, and I am unable to download from the site they tell me to use at http://www.grisoft.com/ww.93825.tpl-mcr1 It leads me to a download that stops at around 4% of the 46 MB file, stopping somewhere at the .exe file. I am on dial-up, which downloads at around 2 kb per second. Do I need to adjust my PC to download larger files? Or do I have to flagellate my abawanzkishator?

Before posting this, I used both search functions, even advanced stuff like +avg+renewal, and found no relevant topic. Thanks for the help.

Signed, the total idiot for computers, PB

Hi PB,

I send an PM

Cheers.

[opalhort]

I just downloaded it from here without problem.

Info is at this site, use the AVG server to download.

on a dial-up make sure to use a download manager because resume is supported.

opalhort

[Kiwi/Thai]

I sort of have the same problem. I can download the update but there is an error message once I get to the "run" command. I have tried three times now with no luck. I also have a virus 'exploit", I wonder A) is this affecting the process and how do I get rid of the virus ? AVG says it is repairable but can not seem to do it. System restore seems to have been disabled so is of no use.

Any help appreciated as I am a computor dummy.

[briley]

If you can't download AVG v8 you are in luck. It is the biggest load of cr*p I've seen for a while.

On one machine it installs and says everything is OK, but it does not do any anti virus check on files or e-mails.

On a second machine it blocks all outgoing e-mails.

My third machine seems to be working OK.

On all machines it deletes files without any option claiming they are viruses - files I have used for years and run programs I want. It also claims my paid for version of Download Accelerator is spy ware - not true even if the free version is ad ware.

I'm going to look for an alternative before the end of the month.

[m02]

I downloaded and installed AVG version 8 last month; I deleted it after a couple of weeks and am now happily using Avira AntiVir (http://www.free-av.com/). I used AVG for several years and was satisfied with it until version 8 came along. AVG seems to have fallen into the bloat ware trap, the 46 meg download file should be a warning to all. Once installed my computer started bogging down and hesitating over the simplest tasks, such as opening Notepad - tasks don't come much simpler than that. When I checked the Task Manager, AVG had several more processes running than in version 7.5, and was taking up fifty or more megs of memory. Besides putting a hit on overall system performance, version 8 is simply annoying. If you turn off the update and scanning scheduler it pouts, constantly putting up notification windows that it wants to update and changing the system tray icon into an red exclamation point - this ocurrs not after a couple weeks or a month have passed but just after a day or so.

This last weekend a friend call up and related the same story about the down load file being corrupted and not opening when he tried installing. I told him to forget about it and download AntiVir, which if you check sites that rate such things, is consistently given higher detection marks than AVG anyway.

[opalhort]

I did upgrade free AVG from 7.5 to free 8.0 and all appears to work OK except the automatic database update - have to do it manually.

Also every 20-30 minutes I receive this notice:

For now I click "Ignore" and I'm aware that svchost.exe is a legit thing if located in the System32 folder.

Is it safe to click "add to exeptions" ????

opalhort