From: Shadow
On Sat, 27 Oct 2018 09:25:33 -0500, cory@right.here.com wrote:
>I'm giving up on paid AV products because of their ridiculous prices.
>I have 5 computers, and the cost each year for an AV product has
>become too much.
>
>I'm using XP SP 3. I initially tried the Free AVG. It never would
>load on boot. I had to manually load it each time. I uninstalled it
>after a few days. I then tried Kaspersky Free. Kaspersky was too
>annoying with it's pop ups regarding Web page certificates, plus my
>newsreader Agent wouldn't download bodies unless I turned off
>Kaspersky.
>
>I got rid of Kaspersky and tried AVG again. Same problem as the first
>time. It had to be manually loaded after a boot. Which, I think,
>leaves my machine unprotected during boot. Right?
>
>Is anyone else using XP having such problems? AVG is supposed to be
>able to work with XP. Kaspersky isn't, but I thought I'd try it since
>that is the one I've always subscribed to. On top of all this, from
>what I read in Amazon reviews, lots of people are having all kinds of
>problems even with the ones they spent money for.
>
>Any XP users have a suggestion about a freebie AV that works with XP?
AVs usually have a way to turn off email, web and cloud
"protection". Well, they used to. Annoyance gone.
As to loading, just copy whatever link you click on to load
AVG here:
\Documents and Settings\\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\
( All users instead of user name if you are not the only one to login)
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