[gui-talk] AVG Free 8.0 download - Re: Is AVG Free Edition v. 7.5 being obsolesced by a free v.8?

Mon Apr 28 17:41:37 CDT 2008

this is the direct download link to the current installer of afb free 
edition 8.0:

http://www.grisoft.cz/filedir/inst/avg_free_stf_all_8_100a1295.exe

It is taken from

http://free.grisoft.com/ww.download?prd=afe#tba2

where you might want to go and check for the latest version if you do 
want to play around with avg 8.0 free edition. I would recommend 
against this however at this time.

hth

Doris
At 04:56 PM 4/28/2008 -0400, you wrote:

>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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>Checked by AVG.
>Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.5/1401 - Release Date: 
>4/28/2008 7:18 AM

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