Moderators rridgely Posted November 14, 2007 Moderators Share Posted November 14, 2007 I just got home and noticed that my one desktop with avg free on it had a IE window open to an ad for avg. I think I'm going to dump it now and install antivir because at least I can disable that pop up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony A Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 I just got home and noticed that my one desktop with avg free on it had a IE window open to an ad for avg. I think I'm going to dump it now and install antivir because at least I can disable that pop up. I haven't had that happen yet on 4 machines here with it installed. Hope it doesn't because that would be very disappointing. I really like AVG. If it does I will try Avast. I hear too many problems about updates with Antivir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted November 14, 2007 Moderators Share Posted November 14, 2007 I haven't got any AVG pop up ad. Although the GUI does have this little advert in it: Clicking upon the GUI advert opens this page: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David_L Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 Yesterday when I'd right click the little icon in my system tray and then click "check for updates" an IE window would open and take me to their site but it's not doing it today. I wonder if they had a bug in one of their updates yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lotse Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 Looks like the banner ad came from this update, which I haven't yet downloaded.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDPower Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 No popups from AVG here either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xbrianx Posted November 17, 2007 Share Posted November 17, 2007 I got it 2 or 3 days in a row, but I think it's only for a short time. Read the ad, it's talking about a discount up until November something, I forgot the date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New_Age Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 even though i don't use AVG Anti-Virus i can say that this update that contains this Ad only last for a short while. at least we all hope so. Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit Edition | COOLER MASTER Centurion 590 with 4 120mm Blue LED FANS 1 Regular 120MM FAN and a Custom Window Side Panel | AMD Athlon II x4 2.6GHZ Stock| XIGMATEK HDT-S963 92mm | ASRock A780GXE/128 | G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) @800MHZ | CF 2 XFX 4850 1GB @GPU940/MEM1005 | 320GB/OS 160GB/Storage HDDs | LG CD/DVD SATA | Rosewill 600W 2 12v Rail@44 | Ccleaner, Defraggler | Malwarebytes', SUPERAnti-Spyware | Avira AntiVir Personal | Google Chrome v3/4, IE8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators rridgely Posted November 18, 2007 Author Moderators Share Posted November 18, 2007 It hasn't happened again so maybe it was a one time thing. If it only happens like once a month from now on I wouldn't care but it better not be like the antivir one and come every auto update(yeah I know the antivir one is supposed to come only once per day but that hasn't been the case when I used it.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDPower Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 Very strange, I've not seen this on mine or the gf's laptop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lotse Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Sorry for dragging this post up from the dead, but rridgely was proved right yet again. My browser was launched and dircted to the AVG site while conducting an update. As long as its only infrequently and irregular, I can almost live with it. Any more than that, and I wouldn't even use their freeware let alone buy the pro version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators rridgely Posted December 13, 2007 Author Moderators Share Posted December 13, 2007 I kept avg on that computer(none of my others have anything on them anymore) and it hasn't happened since. At least its not once a day/week. I can live with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDPower Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Sorry for dragging this post up from the dead, but rridgely was proved right yet again. My browser was launched and dircted to the AVG site while conducting an update. As long as its only infrequently and irregular, I can almost live with it. Any more than that, and I wouldn't even use their freeware let alone buy the pro version. Yeah, it happened to me for the first time this week. I don't think they'd be stupid enough to do it regularly, they'd lose an awful lot of users if they did (me included) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted December 13, 2007 Moderators Share Posted December 13, 2007 Yeah, it happened to me for the first time this week. I don't think they'd be stupid enough to do it regularly, they'd lose an awful lot of users if they did (me included) It also happened to me this week too, but only once. It's in no way as annoying as AntiVir is with it's blatant ad, but at least the AntiVir ad can be easily blocked via Local Security Policy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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