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

Mon Apr 28 22:16:00 CDT 2008

Hi Shoeless Ray,

Thanks, but 1. I don't remember ever having had any sort of registration 
number for AVG Free Edition, though it's been so long since I began using it 
I may have forgotten a long ago sign-up drill.
2. Everyone on other lists says this Version 8 sucks if you're using a 
screen reader. So I have no interest at all in it as long as the 7.5 version 
is still being "supported," in this case meaning being supplied with updated 
definition files. If I don't hear on the lists that Version 8 has been made 
more manageable with Jaws, and version 7.5 has been abandoned completely, 
I'll just move to another program.

Thanks, and may the water moccasins and rusty nails keep their distance from 
your tender feet.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Foret jr" <rforetjr at comcast.net>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Is AVG Free Edition v. 7.5 being obsolesced by afree 
v.8?

Okay, here's what's really going on.

    AVG 7.5 is being upgraded to version 8.0 and here's exactly how to get
it.

1.  go to:
www.avg.com/7-8
and enter your AVG license number in the box.

2.  You'll be given an e-mail which will contain the download link for AVG
version 8.

3.  Install this program.

    Be warned, if you're using Vista, you're going to have major
difficulties.  Every single time I try to launch the AVG 8.0 user interface
to see just how accessible it really is, Windows forces it to shut down.
AVG tech support has sent me a special tool which they want me to install
and run.  But, I've roled back to AVG 7.5 because I fear the consequences of
not being secure.  I may try yet again tomorrow.  I'll let you know what
happens.  IF all else fails, I'm going to have to consider Windows Live care
1 as my anti virus protection.  From what I hear, Norton has become a
positive accessibility nightmare!!!!!

HTH.

Sincerely,
The Constantly BAREFOOTED Ray
Phone:
985-360-3375
e-mail:
rforetjratcomcastdotnet
Skype Name:
barefootedray

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
To: "GUI-Talk" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 2:19 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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