Support for AVG Anti-Virus 6.0 extended to February 15, 2005

[Mel]

In November, 2004, Grisoft announced the end-of-support of AVG
Anti-Virus 6.0 as of January 31, 2005. In order to provide additional
time for our customers to upgrade their licenses, this date has been
extended to February 15, 2005. All support, including virus database
updates, program updates and technical support will be discontinued on
this date!

Users of AVG 6.0 who neglect to upgrade to AVG 7.0 by February 15 will
no longer be protected from viruses by AVG. In order to continue to be
protected by AVG Anti-Virus, you must be using AVG 7.0.

 

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Users of AVG 6.0 who neglect to upgrade to AVG 7.0 by February 15 will
no longer be protected from viruses by AVG. In order to continue to be
protected by AVG Anti-Virus, you must be using AVG 7.0.

Question: I use AVG 6 and my preference is to manually download the
definitions (the full one from 516 to date) , save a copy (on my
backup dirve), then copy it to the update directory and do the
update from there. All manually.

Can this be done with AVG 7? IOW, ALL the updated defintions from the
initial install?

 

[colinco]

Question: I use AVG 6 and my preference is to manually download the
definitions (the full one from 516 to date) , save a copy (on my
backup dirve), then copy it to the update directory and do the
update from there. All manually.

Can this be done with AVG 7? IOW, ALL the updated defintions from the
initial install?
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Seems like the hard way to do it but you can.
AVG say " Manual update is generally not recommended as it requires that
you download the big full-update file. We strongly recommend to use the
automatic update if at all possible as it downloads only the
differential update file that is typically rather small (1/10th or less
of the full update)."

 

[Mark Warner]

Question: I use AVG 6 and my preference is to manually download the
definitions (the full one from 516 to date) , save a copy (on my
backup dirve), then copy it to the update directory and do the
update from there. All manually.

Can this be done with AVG 7? IOW, ALL the updated defintions from the
initial install?

Get the priority update and the recommended update here:

http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/24/lng/us/tpl/v5

Save them to a convenient place on your drive. (The recommended update
hasn't changed since 12-28-04.)

There is no "update folder" in AVG v7. In the AVG 7 updater, pick From
File rather than Internet as your update source, and point to the
download location.

 

[ozzy]

Get the priority update and the recommended update here:

http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/24/lng/us/tpl/v5

Save them to a convenient place on your drive. (The recommended update
hasn't changed since 12-28-04.)

There is no "update folder" in AVG v7. In the AVG 7 updater, pick From
File rather than Internet as your update source, and point to the
download location.

Mark,

the update folder for avg7 is located here:
"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Grisoft\Avg7Data"

ozzy

 

[Mark Warner]

"Mark Warner"wrote:

the update folder for avg7 is located here:
"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\Grisoft\Avg7Data"

Well I'll be hornswaggled. So it is. I stand corrected.

Move along folks... Nothing to see here...

 

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Mark,

the update folder for avg7 is located here:
"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Grisoft\Avg7Data"

ozzy

Thanks all. I have high speed so even a 6mb download only takes 3 or
so minutes. This way if I have to do a complete re-install I can be
up-to-date before going online.

 

[Mark Warner]

Thanks all. I have high speed so even a 6mb download only takes 3 or
so minutes. This way if I have to do a complete re-install I can be
up-to-date before going online.

Good practice. I put the installer and the two updates (among other
things) on a CD or thumb drive every time I go to look at a funky box.
Invariably, there's a two or three year old load of Norton or McAfee in
place, and that's all. Off they come, and on goes AVG, without ever
needing to go online.