AVG v8.5 Free Upgrade pop-up - Malware or genuine
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AVG v8.5 Free Upgrade pop-up - Malware or genuine
25-03-2009 9:57 AM
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Booted up the pc this morning and within 10 minutes or so received a pop-up purporting to be from AVG offering a free upgrade to the new 8.5 version, however, being a suspicious old so and so I checked the Grisoft website and could find no mention of a free upgrade. I’m afraid I just closed the pop-up so I cannot include a screen dump for you to view. Do you think this was a malicious attempt to infect my pc?
Many thanks
Rob
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25-03-2009 9:58 AM
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If it helped click the thumb
If it fixed it click 'This fixed my problem'
Re: AVG v8.5 Free Upgrade pop-up - Malware or genuine
25-03-2009 10:09 AM
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I already use AVG Free Edition v8.0 but the pop-up was ‘offering’ a free upgrade from Free Edition to v8.5 but the Grisoft website (including from the link that you supplied) is asking for a payment for 8.5
Rob
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25-03-2009 10:13 AM
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Download Now link on the left hand side of the page or http://www.avg.com/filedir/inst/avg_free_stf_en_85_283a1450.exe (linked at the bottom of that page).
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Re: AVG v8.5 Free Upgrade pop-up - Malware or genuine
25-03-2009 10:24 AM
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Thanks again guys
Rob
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25-03-2009 10:32 AM
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Re: AVG v8.5 Free Upgrade pop-up - Malware or genuine
25-03-2009 1:43 PM
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See also http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,73479.msg599131.html#msg599131
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25-03-2009 1:46 PM
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25-03-2009 2:56 PM
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26-03-2009 10:24 PM
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I tried unistalling it, re-installing it to no avail. Then panicked about surfing without AV protection after an hour or so & have currently re-installed McAfee (as my licence had not yet expired). Will see how long my laptop can cope with McAfee before it grinds to a halt & I am considering my options thanks to the responses to my early topic this year about different anti-virus providers.
One good thing came out of it in that I have learned to do the majority of what my registry cleaner was doing as a result as found areas of the computer I had never before ventured into.
Re: AVG v8.5 Free Upgrade pop-up - Malware or genuine
27-03-2009 12:00 PM
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I have been offered the upgrade to 8.5 too and when tried to download the pc refused and said it was currupted file.#
haven't tried since..
might try some of your links.
thanks
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27-03-2009 12:14 PM
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27-03-2009 12:23 PM
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I used the link provided by jelv which worked perfectly
Rob
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27-03-2009 5:00 PM
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your links were the same and it worked fine.
up and running okay now
thankyou again.
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