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15-Oct-2009, 01:51 PM #1
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 9.0 Released
For those of you who are currently using AVG 8.5, version 9.0 has just been released. The file size is a little over 3 MB larger than version 8.5. I haven't installed and tested it yet, so I don't what's new that's been added to it. Anyway, here is a couple of download links:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/AVG_AntiVi...tion_d886.html

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail...e/1028312263/1

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15-Oct-2009, 02:51 PM #2
OK. I've installed and tested it.

Version 9.0 will install over and replace version 8.5, so there's no need to uninstall it first.

You'll be offered to install the AVG toolbar and the Yahoo search engine, which you can decline.

You'll be prompted to restart to complete the install process.

Upon restart, you'll be given a choice to run the "optimize scan". If you choose this option, the scan will start and run for several minutes. This scan doesn't check for and notify you of any viruses. It's only purpose is to optimize it for quicker and faster scanning when you scan for viruses.

I've examined the advanced settings and haven't really noticed anything different from version 8.5.

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16-Oct-2009, 05:01 PM #3
avg 9.0
i download and installed it thurs. it runs the almost the same as 8.5. i have had no problems with it.
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17-Oct-2009, 02:24 PM #4
According to this page, AVG 9 Free Edition has basic rootkit protection, something AVG 8.x Free Edition didn't have.

I'm updating my mom's computer as I write this.

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17-Oct-2009, 07:46 PM #5
tomdkat:

Thanks for that tidbit of information. I was wondering what was included and added with the extra 3.4 MB in the download file size.

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17-Oct-2009, 07:52 PM #6
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OK. I've installed and tested it.

Version 9.0 will install over and replace version 8.5, so there's no need to uninstall it first.

You'll be offered to install the AVG toolbar and the Yahoo search engine, which you can decline.

You'll be prompted to restart to complete the install process.

Upon restart, you'll be given a choice to run the "optimize scan". If you choose this option, the scan will start and run for several minutes. This scan doesn't check for and notify you of any viruses. It's only purpose is to optimize it for quicker and faster scanning when you scan for viruses.

I've examined the advanced settings and haven't really noticed anything different from version 8.5.

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how do you feel it compares to Avast?
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17-Oct-2009, 08:19 PM #7
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According to this page, AVG 9 Free Edition has basic rootkit protection, something AVG 8.x Free Edition didn't have.

I'm updating my mom's computer as I write this.

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So far, so good. The upgrade went flawlessly and we'll see what the system scan time is tomorrow after is scans the system tonight.

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17-Oct-2009, 09:01 PM #8
The "optimized scan" after restart during the install process is supposed to make future scans shorter. I haven't tested that yet. Up until now, a scan takes over an hour in my computers.

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17-Oct-2009, 11:38 PM #9
I'm also interested to see what the new scan times are on my mom's computer. The system specs:

AMD Sempron 3400+ (64-bit processor) @ 1.8GHz
1.5GB RAM
80GB SATA HDD with 50GB used
Windows XP Home Edition (SP3)

Scan times had averaged 2 hrs 15 mins or so. We'll see how AVG 9 performs tonight.

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18-Oct-2009, 01:54 AM #10
Donna over Calendar Of Updates made a nice little write up with images .
http://www.calendarofupdates.com/upd...opic=24113&hl=
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Scan times had averaged 2 hrs 15 mins or so. We'll see how AVG 9 performs tonight.
Ok, last night (or early this morning, rather) the first AVG 9 scan ran for 1 hr 44 mins and scanned 534,532 objects. In AVG 8.5, closer to 600k objects were scanned, on average.

So, it looks like scan times should be better on my mom's system with AVG 9.

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19-Oct-2009, 01:36 PM #12
I just noticed something about AVG 9 on my mom's system. I've got AVG configured to scan her system nightly and it did the first night after I installed it. Last night, however, the scheduled scan didn't run. I'm not sure if this is due to the optimized scan causing AVG to determine a scan wasn't needed or if something else happened.

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19-Oct-2009, 05:03 PM #13
Well I be checking or you may find a scan is never needed and that means something is not set up right.

Check and see if you may have to set up the scheduled scan under an Admin account.

Not all programs tell you you have to have Admin rights.
Like Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware lets me open and click update and it will tell you it updated when done but it will not update if it is a user account even after it tells you it did. Looking at the database version number it will never change on you under a user account.

So you do not always have a program tell you what rights it needs to do things and you can think your able to do something when you can't like in the MBAM.
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19-Oct-2009, 05:04 PM #14
I used the AVG internal scheduler, as I have always done. The first night it scanned, it scanned at the correct scheduled time. Then, it didn't scan last night. I'll see if it scans tonight at the scheduled time.

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19-Oct-2009, 08:03 PM #15
Maybe a firewall or something has to have rights for it to start.
If you ran the first night but rebooted after that then something new was added or changed that needs rights.

Guess lower the firewall rights to learning but do it offline and then when it is time it should adjust the rights.
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