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Deozaan

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AVG Popup Ads
« on: June 27, 2010, 02:43 AM »
What's up with AVG (Free) popping up an advertisement every single day nagging me to upgrade to the paid version?

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I think it's about time to uninstall. Who needs an anti-virus program anyway?

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Re: AVG Popup Ads
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2010, 05:32 AM »
they used to be quite decent, i hope they haven't stooped to pushing their anti-malware suite down the users' throat. fwiw, MSE is a much better option for me nowadays.

• http://www.microsoft.com/Security_essentials/

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Re: AVG Popup Ads
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2010, 02:30 PM »
The one good thing about the AV & security software market is that there are plenty of options to choose from if you grow disillusioned with what you are currently using.

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Re: AVG Popup Ads
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2010, 02:57 AM »
I think it's about time to uninstall. Who needs an anti-virus program anyway?
lol, my thoughts exactly! Thats why I don't not use MSE
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Deozaan

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Re: AVG Popup Ads
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2010, 06:31 PM »
Well, it seems that the day after I decided to uninstall AVG it stopped popping up the ad every day. It's still installed on my netbook and I'm not getting the popup anymore.

Oh well.

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