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Newer version of AVG antivirus will update automatically, even if you set up the options so that it's supposed to ask (which is doesn't). Although I removed it from most of my systems, I've a junk-laptop and TV Set PC (Dell refurb) for media and they still run AVG.
Sounds so Win10-ish. At least they give it out free, so complaints are a little less justified. Still, AVG has now become malware.
For entertainment purposes, I installed a firewall to replace the junk that comes with windows. All default AVG permissions were deleted (not just disabled). Now I'll see how this plays out. Will the firewall block access, giving me back control, or will a systems-level program like AVG slip around it? Actually, the firewall offers free AV, so the solutions already at hand, but you know how that curiosity goes (i.e., I want to win the battle, first).
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UPDATE:
Zone-Alarm will handle it under the following conditions:
- Change the exisiting ZA settings for AVG (deleting them is easiest).
- Set the Advanced options slider to asks you before allowing
- Set the other Advanced options slider security level to highest.
The second two procedures are required so that you can allow in update if you wish and ZA doesn't automatically pass it on some internal white-list.
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[a small brainfart caused me to post update wrong thread this AM]
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W∴ Balboos wrote: At least they give it out free, so complaints are a little less justified.
STD's are free also.
W∴ Balboos wrote: Newer version of AVG antivirus will update automatically
Easy to stop that behaviour; fire up fiddler, see where it downloads from, and add the address to your host-file.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Fiddler (software) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[^]Seems to work with HTTP/HTTPS - and AVG's not. It runs as a background program loaded at the SYSTEM level. No browser or related protocols need be involved. By using the Firewall (ZoneAlarm), I hopefully disabled its access as a recognized application. ZA will (I hope) ask me to permit access when I next fire up the system.
Eddy Vluggen wrote: STD's are free also.
Although it's more likely you'll get one if you pay for the service. Either way, it gives a whole new meaning to "Open Source"!
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W∴ Balboos wrote: and AVG's not
Would work with TCP, no?
W∴ Balboos wrote: No browser or related protocols need be involved.
Browser no, protocol yes.
W∴ Balboos wrote: Although it's more likely you'll get one if you pay for the service
It is more likely if you change your provider often without using any precaution 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: It is more likely if you change your provider often without using any precaution
If that doesn't deserve a + for a great retort then nothing does!
Per other questions: I looked up the application in the Wikipedia. It may be useful, elsewhere, but AVG will undoubtedly go after I crush its spirit.
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Tlaloc[^] is displeased with us!
He must be: it's August Bank Holdiay Monday in Wales and the sun is shining.
This is weird: there is no rain visible anywhere; washed clothes are drying outside; cats are not requiring a towel. Salad may even be consumed.
(It's probably Brexit, he's an illegal immigrant God)
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Sunshine is the new black!
Get used to it.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I wish it would last long enough to get used to!
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You are not in Welsh Wales - you are in West England.
You can tell this, because even though the weather is brilliant, people still complain.
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Day 2 in Africa and the weather is dry, hot and sunny. We can't really go outside between 10 and 3, and last night it was still over 30 and 10pm.
I had a shower when I got up and another just now. Probably will need a 3rd before dinner.
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: I had a shower when I got up and another just now. Probably will need a 3rd before dinner.
Must be extremely uncomfortable what with Poms being allergic to water and all.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I assume that they bathe in other liquids (e.g. gin) 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Enter a mental picture of a slightly uncomfortable Englishman (Read red faced sweaty huffing and puffing) with a pith helmet, wide khaki shorts and a glass of tonic containing very little water.
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Don't be silly, I'm staying inside until it cools down. Should be some time around December.
veni bibi saltavi
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Did I mention anything about being outdoors?
But please tell me the part about tonic was right at least.
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looks like I missed hearing where you ended up .. Africa huh .. I lived for 2 great years in Kenya (Nairobi) when I were a lad .. hope you enjoy wherever you are
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Whist here, on the proper side of the Atlantic, in a sensible coastal region, we've had so much bright sunshine that I've been hoping for a bit of rain.
Apollo, it seems, likes the looks of our girls in bikinis.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: I've been hoping for a bit of rain
We normally have plenty, and you're welcome to a whole load of it. Buyer collects, as FedEx won't ship bulk liquids that far, and it's a PITA to email.
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"Apollo, it seems, likes the looks of our girls in bikinis." Apollo must like them large[^]
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Well, judging by her tattoo (and other generous attributes), this was clearly a photo from the Beach at Compton Bay. It's well known and understandable how you Brit's love US-logo'd items. None the less, were it not so, let me paraphrase the late Frank Zappa:
"The bigger the cushion, the better the pushin' "
(Apollo's been like that ever since Diana left him for Dionysus).
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I thought it would be some Celtic god that would be responsible. Where are your Druids to deal with this problem.
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Throwing up in Magaluf...
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Movie Quote Of The Day
Crazy is building your ark after the flood has already come.
Which movie?
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Waterworld
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Noah's Brother - The Untold Story
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