philo
Sat Mar 22 15:11:19 PDT 2008
"Peter" <peter@nospam.net> wrote in message
news:fs3u6o01uul@enews2.newsguy.com...
> philo wrote:
> > "Peter" <peter@nospam.net> wrote in message
> > news:fs3qk801suu@enews1.newsguy.com...
> >> Sorry if this is off topic, but I am sure there are a lot of windows
> >> users who use the free AVG 7.5 virus protection. I am running xpsp2.
> >>
> >> Is there anyway of stopping the damn thing from opening your browser
> >> and displaying an advertisement to update to the pay version 8.0.
> >> This happens when I click check for updates. I think it only
> >> happens once per day (if you recheck for updates several times), but
> >> I am not sure about that. I did some searching in google and failed
> >> to come up with an answer.
> >>
> >> Thanks...Pete
> >>
> >>
> >
> > weird.
> > I use avg 7.5 on several machines and it's never done that
>
> Philo...if you google it, apparently it does NOT happen to everyone for
some
> strange reason, but there is ample evidence that it happens and that AVG
has
> slumped down to that sort of thing - it is a shame. I don't see anyway of
> stopping it, except for uninstalling and reinstalling, but I doubt that
will
> work since someone said the pop up was in one of their update files, and
> therefore it is probable in the latest version of 7.5 that you would
> redownload.
>
> Do you think it has anything to do with firefox, versus IE. I use
> firefox...Pete
>
>
The machine I am using now has IE, K-Meleon and Thunderbird
and AVG 7.5 free . I have never seen a pop up to purchase the new version.
Nor has any machine I've setup with AVG free done that.
All I could suggest would be to uninstall
reboot
then reinstall