I still use it and have had no major problems with it. Occasionally it will fail to automatically upgrade, but I've had no problem manually upgrading when that happens. I just checked and my last upgrade was 9:51 a.m. CST 2/15/2009

I have been getting some update errors lately. Within the last week or so, I've had messages that it didn't connect to the internet correctly and did not update. I updated manually twice, but haven't had any problem in the past few days.

There haven't been any problems here on this Vista system. There was a core update yesterday that might have been directed at the reported concerns.

DA

I don't know if the problems people have been talking about have been only with Vista or not, but I have XP and my AVG 8 has caused me no problems.

Dee

Not to confuse anyone, the core update I referred to was for AVG v8.0.234. The current full download version is 8.0.237 with an apparent release date of February 13, 2009.

DA

Sorry, forgot to say I'm running XP.

Thank you all so much. This is very helpful. It sounds worthwhile to do a fresh install.

I switched to Avast Home Edition. It's also free. I'm very happy with it.

Joseph Offenberg

Hi breenthumb,
I still use AVG, I have for years and I like it. I did run into an issue in late November in which I was continually asked to reboot. I posted on the AVG Forum and received the following fix from Big Al 43:(and it did work although I was not wild about the tone of the forum)

"Restarting....

First check in the Advanced settings... Tools-> Advanced Settings-> Update in the 'When to update files' settings... it should be set to 'Update immediately' & 'Require confirmation from the user'...

Now this should solve your restart issue.... Problem is most probably in failure of file replacing on Windows restart. Look into folder where AVG is installed whether file "updatecomps.cfg.prepare" exists. If yes, then delete existing file "updatecomps.cfg" and rename "updatecomps.cfg.prepare" to "updatecomps.cfg". Then restart the computer to see if the issue is resolved."

Here is a link that might be useful: Link to AVG Restarting Thread

Thanks, PKponder. You did well to get an actual answer there at all--terse as it was. But I'm glad it helped you. This is beyond me so I'm taking it slow and trying to understand and follow it--just in case the new DL has these same problems. At least I'll know what to do and what to look for.

I've already uninstalled AVG (yesterday) so need to DL again. Hoping it will work properly. Thanks again. Sandy

This may have already been mentioned, but you should check Program Files in Windows Explorer and delete the AVG folder before reinstalling. That would have the same effect as the 'fix'.

No I didn't know anything about that. I did find an old AVG file for 7.5 in "My Downloads" and deleted that. Is that the location of files you're talking about?

If not, would you please let me know how to access the Windows Explorer Program Files before I get into serious trouble poking around? Thanks.

OK, I found them reading another post. Nothing in there from AVG so safe to re-install. Thanks for your help.

Right click on your Start button and left click on Explore. That will open Windows Explorer. Now, on the left side look for Documents and Settings and click on the minus to fold up that list so that you can see Program Files. You can also just scroll down until you see Program Files and click the + in the box. Now, find the AVG folder, right click and delete. This will force the installation to copy the new folder with uncorrupted files instead of just seeing the folder there and skipping the copy of the new files and folders. Hope that makes sense to you.

Pam

That made perfect sense. I've got a clean install of AVG running and its nice to see all those familiar icons active again.

Thanks for being so helpful. I don't know what I'd do without this forum. Sandy

I got the 8.0.237 update today. No problem.

Sue