AVG Free
Forgive me if this has already been covered, I looked but couldn't see it anywhere.
I've used AVG Free for ages and when I updated the system to Win 7 earlier this year I re-installed it and it has worked fine for over 4 months. When I switched on this morning I was greeted with a window announcing that my 'free trial' period will end tomorrow and requesting payment or licence number.
I wasn't aware that what I had downloaded was a trial , I believed it to be the normal free version. Is this something new? Have AVG changed the system and reduced the capability of the free version? I re-installed it on my wife's netbook and it seems to be much less complex, only covering something called AVG Linkscanner which only covers 'web browsing'.
I'm quite happy to continue with AVG if necessary, either with the paid-for or the free version or to change to Avast. My first reaction was to run MalwareBytes Anti-Malware but that didn't pick up anything.
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