AVG Free 8.0 launches April 24

Synthesis · Post by **Synthesis** » 24 Apr 2008, 20:22

Just finished downlaoding and installing the 47MB file and 240KB update file and it's nice so far. Nice smooth interface and already doing a good job.
Enjoy

http://free.grisoft.com/

Friggs · Post by **Friggs** » 24 Apr 2008, 21:23

downloaded the exe without a proble but my update fails every time with 340bytes remaining. Oh well, I guess the servers are really busy atm.

Cheers for the heads up!

Frozenfireside · Post by **Frozenfireside** » 24 Apr 2008, 21:36

wrong thread :-/

Synthesis · Post by **Synthesis** » 24 Apr 2008, 21:38

I had no problems. downloaded nicely, installed (didnt even need a restart) and updated.

Friggs · Post by **Friggs** » 24 Apr 2008, 21:47

strange, I have run the updater over 10x now and every single time it cans at 340bytes remaining... also dont get faster than 20KB/s on my 4Mb/s line. oh well, will see later or tomorrow.

ICE-VaPa · Post by **ICE-VaPa** » 24 Apr 2008, 22:50

omw! Thank you for the heads up. <3

Getting ~380kbs dl...

Frozenfireside · Post by **Frozenfireside** » 25 Apr 2008, 10:27

It's freekin sweeeeet. Very nice update to an already good program.
I love the interface-very simple yet shows everything you need.

DeathStrike · Post by **DeathStrike** » 25 Apr 2008, 21:26

i like avast more.

Synthesis · Post by **Synthesis** » 25 Apr 2008, 21:32

Then create a new thread, DS, this is an AVG thread. I like AVG. AVG 8.0 rocks!!!

Post by **Anthro** » 25 Apr 2008, 21:40

30% downloaded

DeathStrike · Post by **DeathStrike** » 26 Apr 2008, 09:00

na man. i not here to spam bout my av. i just prefer it ova avg cos wen i last used avg then the dam thing wud not update. (and i see sum ppl still have trouble with it.) everyone has there own idea bout wat is good av and thats there opinion.

Mozz · Post by **Mozz** » 26 Apr 2008, 10:36

Been Running AVG 8 Network for a while now. Its a lot better than 7.5 for Servers and Terminal Services environment! I wish Microsoft would licence their software the same as Grisoft, Alt-N etc. that way i'd buy Windows for 5 years, and would get XP, Vista and Win7.... but *sigh* why would they? basssturds

atplay · Post by **atplay** » 26 Apr 2008, 13:24

strange, I have run the updater over 10x now and every single time it cans at 340bytes remaining... also dont get faster than 20KB/s on my 4Mb/s line. oh well, will see later or tomorrow.

also had problem with the update, but updated manually the first update and no issues after that with updates.

my 2c

Screeper · Post by **Screeper** » 26 Apr 2008, 21:24

Been running AVG 8.0 for couple of days now.

Much shinier interface

Loads significantly faster than Anti-Vir and Avast. Also the update servers tend to be a bit quicker (a LOT quicker than the Anti-Vir servers).

Gripe 1 - you cannot totally disable auto-updates of virus defs and engine. This annoys me slightly but can be worked around by setting the update for 1am and not allowing it to check at any other time.

Gripe 2 - plug-in that checks whether something you googled is evil or nasty etc. also can't be completely disabled (well it can be but then you get 'AVG is in error state' message the whole time).
So has to remain enabled in AVG but then disable it in Firefox plug-ins. It is a nice idea but it nibbles at my bandwidth and in this country bandwidth is money so I prefer to not have it run.

Built-in anti-spyware is a nice feature, not sure how efficient it is but still better than nothing.

Has anyone had it pick up a virus/spyware yet?
My full system scan had it pick up loads of cookies but nothing terribly malicious.

Richard_ · Post by **Richard_** » 27 Apr 2008, 18:51

Screeper wrote:Gripe 1 - you cannot totally disable auto-updates of virus defs and engine. This annoys me slightly but can be worked around by setting the update for 1am and not allowing it to check at any other time.

Under the "virus definition update schedule" tab, there is an option to "Enable this task". All you need to do is uncheck it, and problem solved.

Screeper wrote:Gripe 2 - plug-in that checks whether something you googled is evil or nasty etc. also can't be completely disabled (well it can be but then you get 'AVG is in error state' message the whole time).

You can also turn off the AVG error states in AVG's control panel.
[edit] - My mistake. You can't turn off the error states completely.

Screeper · Post by **Screeper** » 27 Apr 2008, 19:41

Richard_ wrote:
Under the "virus definition update schedule" tab, there is an option to "Enable this task". All you need to do is uncheck it, and problem solved.

Nope, if you disable the virus database update, avg will be in an error state.

Richard_ · Post by **Richard_** » 27 Apr 2008, 19:57

Screeper wrote:
Richard_ wrote:
Under the "virus definition update schedule" tab, there is an option to "Enable this task". All you need to do is uncheck it, and problem solved.

Nope, if you disable the virus database update, avg will be in an error state.

Correct. Sorry, I thought you meant that you couldn't disable it at all.

Friggs · Post by **Friggs** » 28 Apr 2008, 17:22

the problem I had with updates was temp, no problems now.