Monday, September 29, 2008

AVG Free

This might be helpful to those of you who do not yet have AVG Free Anti-virus. A former student wrote last week:

"Hi Tom,

Hope all is well with you.  My Norton expires today and  I thought I would install AVG security which you said was free.  I found AVG security in two places but there is a charge for their services.  Maybe I'm in the wrong pew.  Can you give me a clue. Many thanks."

My reply:

You can download AVG Free Version 8 here: http://tinyurl.com/4e7jxt

After you download it to your desktop but before running it, I recommend that you download and run the Norton Removal Tool. You can get it here: http://tinyurl.com/3xdxhl

The reason for the Norton Removal Tool is that regular Add/Remove of Norton does less than a complete job and has been known to even fail.


After uninstalling Norton, install AVG.

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