Upgade to AVG 2012

[Dolt]

I had a window pop up to tell me to upgrade to AVG 2012. I have used the free version for a couple of years now and have never been asked to upgrade before. Should I upgrade? Is it a free version or will I be asked to pay for it if I do upgrade?

[jno]

it's still free. I just did it and have had no trouble (yet).

[jno]

- but read the forms before ticking them as they offer free and paid-for versions.; The free version is the one that offers only one element.

[DrFilth]

i had the upgrade today you will be offered two choices the free one and another that you pay for just tick the free upgrade box

it will then do it all for you

[Dolt]

Ok, will do, thanks Jno and DrF.

[Dolt]

I have installed the 2012 version but do I need to uninstall the old AVG?

[Dolt]

Hi it's me Dolt again, I'm after looking at the overview on AVG, it seem there are only 7 things with a green tick. On the old version there was about 12 with green ticks. .....Is yours like that?

[jno]

mine don't look like that; on one view there's one tick, on another there are four. So it depends what exactly you're looking at. The main thing is whether the ticked things are what you want.

Earlier versions should have been replaced by AVG 2012 automatically

[Dolt]

Jno, I'll try and take a screen shot and show you.

[Dolt]

http://oi56.tinypic.com/2jg5v7l.jpg

[Dolt]

Thats what I'm getting.

[jno]

yes, I've found that - I've got "email protection" as well. All that seems to be pretty much what I need. I can't remember what the old overview showed - does there seem to be anything significant missing? I also have Malwarebytes... at least I thought it had but it seems to have vanished; I'll have to get it again.

[Dolt]

sorry Jno, but I wouldn't know if there was anything significant missing, What's Malwarebytes? I may be also missing that also. am I?
I don't think I have "email protection".does AVG cover email?

[jno]

I just wondered if you remembered what the ticks in your old version were - I can't remember mine. I presume email protection is for Outlook Express or whatever it's called these days, but I don't use that, and Gmail and Hotmail have their own spam protection. But my AVG does list email protection and yours doesn't, I don't know why.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/ is worth having (also just use the free version). Other ABers may be able to offer more or better advice.

[Mobius1]

Anti-spam isn't the same as email virus protection which is what AVG will be doing for you in the free version. Basically, if you're a novice user you really don't need the paid version of any security product. Now you've installed the new version just let it do it's thing.

Malwarebytes is a separate free program that you can download and use to run on-demand scans of your system. You can use that as a back up if you're concerned for some reason that AVG might have missed something.