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GeneralAVG joins Win10 (Updated with Results) Pin
W Balboos, GHB29-Aug-16 2:18
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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).


[update]
UPDATE:
    Zone-Alarm will handle it under the following conditions:
  1. Change the exisiting ZA settings for AVG (deleting them is easiest).
  2. Set the Advanced options slider to asks you before allowing
  3. 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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modified 31-Aug-16 8:33am.

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