I just got home and noticed that my one desktop with avg free on it had a IE window open to an ad for avg.
I think I'm going to dump it now and install antivir because at least I can disable that pop up.
I just got home and noticed that my one desktop with avg free on it had a IE window open to an ad for avg.I think I'm going to dump it now and install antivir because at least I can disable that pop up.
I haven't had that happen yet on 4 machines here with it installed. Hope it doesn't because that would be very disappointing. I really like AVG. If it does I will try Avast. I hear too many problems about updates with Antivir.
I haven't got any AVG pop up ad.
Although the GUI does have this little advert in it:
Clicking upon the GUI advert opens this page:
Yesterday when I'd right click the little icon in my system tray and then click "check for updates" an IE window would open and take me to their site but it's not doing it today. I wonder if they had a bug in one of their updates yesterday.
Looks like the banner ad came from this update, which I haven't yet downloaded..
No popups from AVG here either
I got it 2 or 3 days in a row, but I think it's only for a short time. Read the ad, it's talking about a discount up until November something, I forgot the date.
even though i don't use AVG Anti-Virus i can say that this update that contains this Ad only last for a short while. at least we all hope so.
It hasn't happened again so maybe it was a one time thing. If it only happens like once a month from now on I wouldn't care but it better not be like the antivir one and come every auto update(yeah I know the antivir one is supposed to come only once per day but that hasn't been the case when I used it.)
Very strange, I've not seen this on mine or the gf's laptop
Sorry for dragging this post up from the dead, but rridgely was proved right yet again.
My browser was launched and dircted to the AVG site while conducting an update. As long as its only infrequently and irregular, I can almost live with it. Any more than that, and I wouldn't even use their freeware let alone buy the pro version.
I kept avg on that computer(none of my others have anything on them anymore) and it hasn't happened since.
At least its not once a day/week. I can live with that.
Sorry for dragging this post up from the dead, but rridgely was proved right yet again.
My browser was launched and dircted to the AVG site while conducting an update. As long as its only infrequently and irregular, I can almost live with it. Any more than that, and I wouldn't even use their freeware let alone buy the pro version.
Yeah, it happened to me for the first time this week. I don't think they'd be stupid enough to do it regularly, they'd lose an awful lot of users if they did (me included)
Yeah, it happened to me for the first time this week. I don't think they'd be stupid enough to do it regularly, they'd lose an awful lot of users if they did (me included)
It also happened to me this week too, but only once. It's in no way as annoying as AntiVir is with it's blatant ad, but at least the AntiVir ad can be easily blocked via Local Security Policy.