AVG Antivirus Free 2011

Yes in 7 GUI you could put a malaware in there, Antivir is slimmer than AVG oh well i will stick with them, i tried 2011 and 1 word YUK!!!!!!!!, made all my downloads slow too. Link scanner who uses that horrible thing??, there is enough security in win7

 

And, why would you want to go back to 7 UI? Heck, let's hope AVG never listens to users who wish it so.

Initially, I was kinda disliking the new AVG 2011 UI, but that was due to AVG LinkScanner UI (I initially only tested this component.) being more compact than the AVG AV 2011 UI. I must say that, now, I'm really enjoying it. It could always be a bit better, but not bad at all.

 

Hey guyz. Some of you talk of IDP here, but when I go to the AVG comparison table (hxxp://free.avg.com/gb-en/product-comparison), the only product that has Identity Protection is the Internet Security. AV paid and AV free don't seem to have it. Could you guyz specify what IDP are you talking about?

Thankz!

 

The table is worng. All versions have IDP now (even free version).

 

Thanks mate, that was fast!

 

Asking for a Modern Lean GUI with Slim lines is Not asking for going back to the v7 GUI.

Don't worry. They won't listen...

 

It's your right to see it that way. I don't see what's wrong with the new UI, though? I've been testing it in a virtual machine and so far no bugs with the UI.

Still, if you are experiencing bugs with the UI and feel it could be different, then with 100% certainty AVG won't change anything unless their users directly suggest it to them, and not express their wishes in some other forum.

If you haven't done it so, maybe you should? Who knows, you'll see it happening.

 

Just downloaded AVG Free 2011 yesterday, and am running it with Windows Vista Firewall along with Windows 7 Firewall Control Free. So far, I have to say that I'm impressed with AVG!

 

I referred to Bugs after v7 [in General]; not Bugs [specifically associated with GUI].

 

I updated AVG to the 2011 version this morning, and it totally locked my whole computer up after about 5 hours of using it. I have Windows 7 and as soon as I installed the update it started slowing way down and then locked up, folders wouldn't load, internet wouldn't load. I had to start in safe mode just to uninstall it. But now that it's gone, everything is back to normal
Now I need a good antivirus that will run on Windows 7.
Anyone know any really good ones?

 

AVG seems very popular at the moment, everyone seems to be using it. Well except for me, I recommend Microsoft Security Essentials as it is light, simple, very effective & in my experience works well on Win 7 64 bit. I've tried a few AVs & MSE has really impressed me. It totally transformed my old laptop (Vista) after years of using Norton & McAfee. I don't know why I ever used the latter ... well apart from the fact that they were free with my ISP. MSE is equally free.

Oh yeah, I would run the AVG Remover tool if I were you.

 

Quite a number of fixes this time.

 

You are Not alone...

 

Link scanner is that thing in google yes? with green ticks? it's intrusive slow no?. I miss the really quick update in 7 days that nice green bar that used to go woosh! and it was all done. . I can hope i guess , maybe next GUI simplified i mean do we need a linkscanner now make it optional separate to download for those who dont want it. Let's just have a basic night light GUI again for just general protection and malware. /end rant.

 

You could've deselected it during custom install.

 

so does avg not have http scanning by the av and instead scans web pages with the link scanner add on?

 

Does AVG scan IMAP email? See "fix" below

 

They provide different protection scopes, and the "Online Protection" component is not part of AVG AV 2011 Free, therefore their free antivirus won't check HTTP traffic for possible malware that you may be downloading.

AVG LinkScanner, and this is something I mentioned in one other thread works by two ways:

Search-Shield, which provides the ratings in Internet Explorer and Firefox. The Search-Shield checks urls against a list of known malicious urls.

Surf-Shield, which will scan urls real-time for exploits and some other type of attacks. The Surf-Shield protects independently of the web browser.

 

Online Protection in AV and IS can be considered an enhanced Resident Shield. Without having seen it in action myself, it's my understanding it will block the download of threats. It carries that behavior beyond the browser to stand-alone IM apps as well.

AV Free Edition lacks the Online Protection component but Resident Shield will intervene post-download and move the bad stuff to the vault if IDP doesn't snag it first.

IMHO, Online Protection best serves those who traffic Web and IM sites for nefarious material and pr0n. Regular folks can depend on LinkScanner and Resident Shield in that order for safe Web browsing.

@moonblood
In your recent post AVG AV 2011 Pro bug? which you closed:
1) There is no "Pro" or "the suite." There is AVG 2011 Anti-Virus Free Edition, AVG 2011 Anti-Virus and AVG 2011 Internet Security.
2) What you call out as "Tools" is "System Tools." Tools is a menu item.
3) System Tools is available only in Internet Security. IDP behavior blocking is uniformly effective across all three AVG 2011 releases.
You should edit that posting as your failure to pay attention to detail and the interjection of your own generic terminology is at the very least confusing to those uninitiated to AVG. Not to mention some won't take you seriously. Seriously.

 

Yes, you're correct. My mistake was due to the fact that I installed AVG IS without Online Protection component, then somehow I made the confusion I had installed AVG 2011 AV paid version (which does have Online Protection, by the way), thinking that the difference between AVG AV 2011 and AVG IS 2011 was the Online Protection component. It clearly was a confusion.

When I wrote "Pro", I really meant Paid. I also make that confusion, for whatever reason, though.

Thank you for correcting me.

Thanks. I wasn't sure how it was named in English. In my language version, the strict translation is precisely only "Tools". An AVG failure when it was translated. I re-checked and when opening this component, in the left side does show "System Tools" (in my language), but at the time I haven't looked at it; I had no reasons to.

You're right, and the confusion was explained above. I wasn't sure how or even if the IDP component is bound to System Tools - Processes, even though it's possible to open the Processes tab from within the IDP component.
But, the bug is there - it's impossible to terminate any process.

I managed to get in touch with AVG, and I'll wait to see what happens. Whether they give it attention or not, it's not really within my power, and I won't give any future focus on it, since I am not an AVG costumer. I just thought I should alert somehow. (I consider this to have been a mistake, though. Something that shall not be repeated any longer. If I find bugs in apps that I merely test, but not use, I'll either get just in touch with the developer(s), if possible, or not even reveal it.)

When I started that thread, I merely had the intention of lettings others know, and if some terminology was wrong, obviously correct me, but due to some events, I decided to just close the thread to stop certain bashing which were bringing no additional information or relevant information for the thread itself.

I really don't care if some don't take it seriously. I got in touch with AVG, and it's their decision to take it seriously or not, or even to consider it a bug to fix right away; not any user here. I haven't started the thread with fear that some users wouldn't take me seriously.

Anyway, sorry for this off-topic, but just tried to explain the way I wrote the thread and why I decided to have it closed.

Anyways, no further threads related to AVG/other app will be started by me, if I find any bugs, etc. I do learn my lessons well.

 

That's good to know ...

 

@LODBROCK and m00nbl00d, thanks for the info.

 

Don't worry....

 

Wow! Your English is excellent. Far far better in fact than most here for whom it is their native tongue - those pitiable victims of outcome based public education whose skills hail from you tube commentary.

But vBulletin, as for most BBS/Forum software, allows users to specify their locale. While I fully understand the global community perspectives of Wilders, its owner selected to publish in English and if users choose to ignore that feature I think they're English primary and don't allow for a language barrier. Over at Rokop I post up my struggling German as a USA user and expect some slack.

Anyhow, I've been using AVG for a long time and while I'll be the first to point out they tripped up with version 9 and screwed their Identity Protection customer base (me among them), Free Edition is a superb offering that lives without any conflict whatsoever with my chosen HIPS, sandbox and firewall layering. As soon as I've recovered from the holiday budget crunch I'm going shopping for a good deal for the paid AV.

As such, I'm perhaps too quick to offer corrections to what is clearly technical misinformation or feature set confusion. Thanks for accepting my somewhat rough shod critique of your posting. Seriously.

 

And, you did well pointing it out. I clearly wrote some wrong terminology - thinking it was the right one.

There's nothing wrong with being corrected, when we mention something wrongly.