[gui-talk] Is AVG Free Edition v. 7.5 being obsolesced by afree v.8?

Mon Apr 28 16:10:08 CDT 2008

Sherri,

Well, doris seems to know the score; see her post. As for Winamp, I still 
can't figure that one out, so when it happens, I just alt F4 out of it and 
then relaunch it, and that doesn't usually come up the next time. Although 
of course it hits me eventually. No one has ever explained to me. Someone 
once said go to winamp.com and download whatever is the newest version, but 
I can never figure out that Web page. Once in a while , someone recommends 
going to an independent site where they have download links for Winamp, and 
that usually provides me with the latest version so that they stop bothering 
me. But it seems only months before that stuff is popping up again and 
blocking me and I have to ask someone again where to go to update Winamp, 
and go through the whole thing all over again. If Jaws could deal with that 
pop up or whatever it is, I'd just click on something and allow it to be 
updated. But that damn thing is not accessible.

Grumble, grumble. But check Doris's message.

Joel
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sherri" <flmom2006 at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Is AVG Free Edition v. 7.5 being obsolesced by afree 
v.8?

I was a little confused too as well Joel and I can't get my Winamp to update
either. *smile.

When I looked at the website, it looked like the AVG 8 is NOT!! free. They
are trying to talk you into purchasing it, but that is just my take.

Sherri
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
To: "GUI-Talk" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 3:19 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] Is AVG Free Edition v. 7.5 being obsolesced by a free
v.8?

On the JFW and Blind Tech lists, a number of people have been going back and
forth about how to find, download and cope with what they vaguely refer to
as AVG version 8. It seems that a relatively few stalwart Jaws jockeys have
figured out how to use it with the Jaws cursor and a bunch of workarounds,
but the general consensus among the non-clever seems to be that it's not
what they want to hassle with.

Meantime, my AVG Free Edition keeps on being updated daily, works okay when
I manually run a scan every few days, and has never displayed an update
notice and invitation to upgrade. Ever.  And believe me, some of my programs
are not shy about that; every so often, Winamp presents an update dialogue
when it launches, a dialogue I can't touch with Jaws and which blocks my
access to the player's controls.

I Curious to learn more,I went to the appropriate Grisoft page for the free
download of AVG, but the text around the download link doesn't say which
version the free version currently is. And then there's some promotional
information about Version 8, but I swear they refer to it as a security
suite, not just the simple antivirus program that's all I have and all I
want. And there's a table there that seems to indicate that they want $35
for the personal version and $55 for the company one. So how is this a
replacement for mine? But the mailing list people keep talking about this
stuff , and I just can't figure out what's happening from reading the
messages in these threads.

I asked about this on JFW, and no one has replied. And I don't want to ask
on Blind Tech, because instead of a congenial, informative response from
someone who knows, the first reply will be from a certain person who feels
it incumbent upon him to lecture me about how I must not be a disciplined
Jaws user or I would know that you use this command to do this, and you
refer to this page element by that name, and how all blind computer users
must learn to avail themselves of tutorial material and learn the rudiments
of Windows and Jaws, yadda yadda. I'm serious. This person does this stuff,
this pedagogical pontificating, at the drop of a hat. So I can't write my
inquiry freely, as I've done here, and expect a friendly, straightforward
reply without overexplanation (another thing he always does) and a lecture.
I wrote him privately once and asked why he does this, and he said that he
knows that I may understand more than that about how to use my computer,
Windows, and Jaws, but he feels a responsibility to use every list question
as an opportunity to educate everyone, etc.

Sorry to vent like this, but it's infuriating and frustrating. Because Blind
Tech has the advantage of being high traffic and having a fair number of
sober, well informed subscribers, and so I feel badly about having to avoid
it. Oh, well.

So , does anybody know what's up with AVG and its free editions? Am I okay
standing pat, so long as AVG doesn't send me a notice saying they won't be
updating the definitions for v. 7.5 anymore?

thanks, all. Again, sorry for the rant. Please indulge me this one time.
Thanks a lot.

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