What's going on with AVG?
I have been a user of AVG free for a very long time with few problems. However, a month or so ago, my wife complained that her computer would start up and then crash as soon as the "boot up" of XP Pro was complete. The cycle repeated itself ad infinitum. Investigation in Safe Mode revealed that the culprit was AVG and on replacing this with Avast, normal services resumed without any viruses being found by Avast's "bootup scan"
Over the last weekend AVG has been complaining that it is unable to update itself on my laptop. There has been no change which could have caused this and meticulous checking of firewall and other malware defending software has not revealed any blocking of AVG's attempts to contact its own update website. Again the usual AVG websites have been normally accessible. In desparation, I deleted AVG and downloaded the latest free version. This installed normally - but again refused to update itself. I then checked my desktop machine and this copy of AVG updated normally. This morning, the problem has spread to my desktop and shortly I expect Avast will be installed on this machine as well. Does anybody know what is happening? Are AVG getting fed up with all of us "free" users and have decided that we will now have to pay for their service? There is no indication of this on their free.avg..com website.
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