AVG Free - Pop up question if you please

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" <peter@nospam.net> wrote in message
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> 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" <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

"Peter" <peter@nospam.net> wrote in message
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> 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

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

"Peter" <peter@nospam.net> wrote in message
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> 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
>

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:43:53 -0500 from philo <philo@privacy.net>:
>
> "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.
>
> 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.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...

See this:
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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
>
>
>

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:37:18 -0400, "Peter" <peter@nospam.net> wrote:

>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
>

I use Firefox and it did it a couple of days ago. The auto-update was a
bit large, so I thought I might be getting an updated version.

It's happened twoce in four months and I have auto-update set for once a
day.