I know that many of you use the free version of AVG as your antivirus program. It is what I personally use and recommend. It does a great job, and it is not bloated and slow like Norton.
Version 7.1 will expire on February 18. You may have seen some windows popping up to advise you of this. The most common email I have been receiving lately is, "What do I do now? I guess I have to buy the paid version, right?"
Wrong.
AVG is not discontinuing the free version. It is still available. It is just being updated to version 7.5. I actually wrote about this in my blog back in November when this upgrade was first announced. Some people upgraded then, but many did not. Now is the time! Below you will see a repeat of my November instructions. Do it now, while you are thinking about it!
All you need to do is get the new free version, which is version 7.5. You can get it at this download link. When you get to that page, you will see box that says "AVG Free for Windows installation files" and under that will be a link to download the actual file (the file name will end with .exe).
When you click on that, the file will start downloading (it is a fairly large file, so it might take a while if you are on a dialup connection). If you are using Firefox, choose "Save to disk" and the file will end up on your desktop, where you will double click to install the program. If you are using Internet Explorer, just choose "Run" and the file will automatically start installing when the download is complete.
You do not need to remove the current version before installing the new one.
Under "Component Selection", just leave all boxes checked.
Finally, you will need to restart the computer when the installation is finished, so be sure to save all of your open documents first.
If you are still using CounterSpy as your antispyware program (which you should), then you don't need to download the AVG anti-spyware program. And you don't want to download the "Trial Version" of the AVG paid antivirus program. Just get the free version, and you will have what you need.
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- If you are reading this, you probably already know me. I did business as The Computer Tutor in Maine for about seven years, then in August 2006 my family and I moved to the Gulf coast of Florida. Now I am the Computer Tutor for Pinellas county.