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

"Peter" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> 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" wrote...
>
> "Peter" wrote...

>> 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

The popup suggesting I go from AVG Antivirus Free 7.5 to their new v8
Internet Security does occur on the one PC I have running AVG7.5 Free. At
least the other PC I have running a paid version of AVG AntiMalware has no
pop-ups.

Craig

philo wrote:
> "Peter" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> 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

Doesnt happen on my winxp or win2k pc's either, seems a bit odd

"Peter" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> philo wrote:
>> "Peter" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> 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
>

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:43:53 -0500 from philo <(E-Mail Removed)>:
>
> "Peter" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > 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.
>
> weird.
> I use avg 7.5 on several machines and it's never done that

For me, it started doing that a couple of weeks ago, and did it for
about a week, then stopped.

But what has been consistent from Day 1 is that the automatic update
screen pops up and grabs focus, then 15-30 seconds later when the
update is being applied a second screen pops up and grabs focus, then
about a minute later when the update is successful a third window
pops up and grabs focus. I'd love to make *that* stop, but I figure
it's the price I have to pay for good-quality antivirus protection at
no charge.

--
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http://OakRoadSystems.com
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Rey


"Peter" wrote:

> 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
>
>
>