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NEEMSTAR · 21st April 2008, 23:19

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Originally Posted by jazzman

It means that your AVG is telling you that it needs updating once is has been updated then the icon will colour

i just updated it again and now it says no update available
but still grey

jazzman · 21st April 2008, 23:37

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Originally Posted by NEEMSTAR

i just updated it again and now it says no update available
but still grey

Double click the icon (bottom right)and the control centre will come up, are all the ticks green?

jazzman · 21st April 2008, 23:41

I personally got rid of Zone alarm as it tended to interfere with other programs and I run on AVG and the XP firewall without any problems

NEEMSTAR · 22nd April 2008, 00:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by jazzman

Double click the icon (bottom right)and the control centre will come up, are all the ticks green?

here is what my control centre looks like

btw the icon does not stay in the bottom right when i close the control centre ?

jazzman · 22nd April 2008, 00:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by NEEMSTAR

here is what my control centre looks like

btw the icon does not stay in the bottom right when i close the control centre ?

You have downloaded anti spyware instead of antivirus

NEEMSTAR · 22nd April 2008, 00:36

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Originally Posted by jazzman

You have downloaded anti spyware instead of antivirus

yeah maybe we should just keep this quite

omg how did i miss that , everytime i clicked it, it was there glaring in my face SPYWARE ! i blame UNI stress , lol

right so avg anti VIRUS .....
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5

does that sound about right

rlvh · 22nd April 2008, 00:47

Yes, 7.5 is indeed the latest free version.

jazzman · 22nd April 2008, 01:01

Quote:

Originally Posted by NEEMSTAR

yeah maybe we should just keep this quite

omg how did i miss that , everytime i clicked it, it was there glaring in my face SPYWARE ! i blame UNI stress , lol

right so avg anti VIRUS .....
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5

does that sound about right

Thats the one, so end of problem

NEEMSTAR · 22nd April 2008, 01:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by jazzman

Thats the one, so end of problem

all sorted

thanks for your help Jazzman (and for pointing out my glaringly obvious mistake

)!!!!!
thanks rlvh too

LoonyJohn · 22nd April 2008, 01:33

I'm currently using Mcafee, as it came free with my new laptop... and seems to work fine!
Previously I've used AVG, and Avast!.

I'd reccomend Avast!, I got on with it better than AVG, and it had a cool function to combine it's scans with your screensaver!

LJ

psykik · 22nd April 2008, 13:32

Tallied the Votes so far seem to indicate a preference for:

1)AVG
2)Kapersky
3)Nortons
4)Mcafee
5)Avast
6)others

Personally, I'd love to keep using nortons, i think its the best product with the best firewall, however im so fed up of my system bein reduced to a crawl with the liveupdate thingy, (even when its services have been turned off in windows!) it takes up 100% of cpu and the system does not respond to anything for ages when it does that.

Therefore will download the Kapersky to trial it today, and AVG on another laptop.

NEEMSTAR · 22nd April 2008, 13:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by psykik

Tallied the Votes so far seem to indicate a preference for:

1)AVG
2)Kapersky
3)Nortons
4)Mcafee
5)Others

Personally, I'd love to keep using nortons, i think its the best product with the best firewall, however im so fed up of my system bein reduced to a crawl with the liveupdate thingy, (even when its services have been turned off in windows!) it takes up 100% of cpu and the system does not respond to anything for ages when it does that.

Therefore will download the Kapersky to trial it today, and AVG on another laptop.

got avg last night after my little hiccup and it seems to be very good

TTDegs · 23rd April 2008, 00:00

what little hiccup was that then Neemstar?

psykik - think you missed out avast

NEEMSTAR · 23rd April 2008, 09:45

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Originally Posted by TTDegs

what little hiccup was that then Neemstar?

22nd April 2008, 13:32	#51 (permalink)
psykik Supporter Triangular Exhaust Join Date: 28th April 2007 Posts: 447 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Tallied the Votes so far seem to indicate a preference for: 1)AVG 2)Kapersky 3)Nortons 4)Mcafee 5)Avast 6)others Personally, I'd love to keep using nortons, i think its the best product with the best firewall, however im so fed up of my system bein reduced to a crawl with the liveupdate thingy, (even when its services have been turned off in windows!) it takes up 100% of cpu and the system does not respond to anything for ages when it does that. Therefore will download the Kapersky to trial it today, and AVG on another laptop. Last edited by psykik; 23rd April 2008 at 04:59.

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TTDegs Super Moderator Civinfo master Join Date: 4th August 2006 Location: Cardiff Posts: 5,638 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	what little hiccup was that then Neemstar? psykik - think you missed out avast