A sad day: End of Support for AVG 6.0

[Elroy Jetson]

All good things have to end at some stage. What is the current best, free, alternative that is also light on resources?

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Grisoft announces the end of support for AVG version 6.0 effective on December 31, 2004 for technical reasons. This version has been available since 1999. Its structure does not allow for further improvements planned for version 7 nor improvements in detection techniques expected to come in the future.

End of support means we will no longer provide program updates or Virus Database updates for version 6.0 and therefore, within days, this version will not protect against new virus outbreaks!

Current AVG 6.0 users should upgrade to AVG 7.0. Information on upgrading to version 7.0 can be found at http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_upgrade.php.
- October 25, 2004 -

 

[Jewelzz]

Thanks Elroy, I posted this info on the front page

 

[Perris Calderon]

they've been great...I will get the 7, they deserve it

 

[Schadenfroh]

Consider the free AntiVir, you dont even need to register it, just install and go. It has a better detection rate than AVG 7 according to spywareinfo and it is discussed in my roundup review of antivirus applications (along with AVG) here .

 

[Perris Calderon]

great first post schadenfroh

welcome to this board

 

[Evil Marge]

Consider the free AntiVir, you dont even need to register it, just install and go. It has a better detection rate than AVG 7 according to spywareinfo and it is discussed in my roundup review of antivirus applications (along with AVG) here .

I have tried that and everytime it updated it crashed,has happened to other people too and it didn't find 2 infections I had,AVG did though

 

[Henyman]

http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/16/lng/us/tpl/v5

work on a free version of avg 7

 

[Enyo]

http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/16/lng/us/tpl/v5

work on a free version of avg 7

Nice to see you quote your source AVG 7 Free will be with us by Nov (updates to 6 are expected to carry on until then, this may be a marketing ploy!)

 

[Henyman]

yeah my source was http://www.Henyman.com


wooops i ment http://www.Henyman.com/enyo

 

[napalmnthemorning]

Thats too bad. Great antivirus company. I will also support 7.0 when it comes out!