Comments on: Should you pay for AVG? http://helpmerick.com/should-you-pay-for-avg.htm Easy to understand computer help Wed, 23 May 2012 11:31:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Rick http://helpmerick.com/should-you-pay-for-avg.htm/comment-page-1#comment-16602 Rick Mon, 10 Oct 2011 05:00:29 +0000 http://helpmerick.com/?p=3343#comment-16602 No need to keep either of the other programs. MalwareBytes and your antivirus should be good enough to keep you protected along with practicing good computing habits. Thanks! No need to keep either of the other programs. MalwareBytes and your antivirus should be good enough to keep you protected along with practicing good computing habits. Thanks!

]]> By: Debbie Dee http://helpmerick.com/should-you-pay-for-avg.htm/comment-page-1#comment-16548 Debbie Dee Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:26:27 +0000 http://helpmerick.com/?p=3343#comment-16548 Thank you so much for taking the time to answer my question. Should I keep Spybot search and destroy and Adware? I also have Malwarebytes. These are all free but was wondering. Dell techs told me to do this. Thank you again, wish I had your smarts. I do transcription and don't know a lot about some of these things. Sincerely, Debbie Thank you so much for taking the time to answer my question. Should I keep Spybot search and destroy and Adware? I also have Malwarebytes. These are all free but was wondering. Dell techs told me to do this.
Thank you again, wish I had your smarts. I do transcription and don’t know a lot about some of these things. Sincerely, Debbie

]]> By: Rick http://helpmerick.com/should-you-pay-for-avg.htm/comment-page-1#comment-16358 Rick Mon, 03 Oct 2011 05:01:28 +0000 http://helpmerick.com/?p=3343#comment-16358 Thanks for your comment...don't use the CA, and don't buy the AVG. The free one is plenty. Or, my current recommendations are AVAST for Windows XP or Microsoft Security Essentials for Vista or Wndows 7 (see sidebar links to your right). Thanks again. Thanks for your comment…don’t use the CA, and don’t buy the AVG. The free one is plenty. Or, my current recommendations are AVAST for Windows XP or Microsoft Security Essentials for Vista or Wndows 7 (see sidebar links to your right). Thanks again.

]]> By: Debbie Dee http://helpmerick.com/should-you-pay-for-avg.htm/comment-page-1#comment-16350 Debbie Dee Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:33:53 +0000 http://helpmerick.com/?p=3343#comment-16350 I have always been impressed with AVG free I was wondering about getting the whole thing. Bresnan has CA which is soooo slow so I just use AVG, Malware, Spybot, and I did pay for AVG tune-up. How do you know if this stuff they give you and you have to immunize is true? I bought Exterminate It and it was so bad. It always said the same thing, gosh did they think that I wouldn't notice? Appreciate this site. Hope for some feed back, thank you Debbie I have always been impressed with AVG free I was wondering about getting the whole thing. Bresnan has CA which is soooo slow so I just use AVG, Malware, Spybot, and I did pay for AVG tune-up. How do you know if this stuff they give you and you have to immunize is true? I bought Exterminate It and it was so bad. It always said the same thing, gosh did they think that I wouldn’t notice? Appreciate this site. Hope for some feed back, thank you Debbie

]]> By: When Free Pushes The Limit | Grand Junction Marketing | Search Engine Optmization http://helpmerick.com/should-you-pay-for-avg.htm/comment-page-1#comment-5603 When Free Pushes The Limit | Grand Junction Marketing | Search Engine Optmization Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:44:07 +0000 http://helpmerick.com/?p=3343#comment-5603 [...] was recently commenting on an article that asks, “Should you pay for AVG?”, of which you can read my full response, but the essence was that free is good, but they [...] [...] was recently commenting on an article that asks, “Should you pay for AVG?”, of which you can read my full response, but the essence was that free is good, but they [...]

]]> By: Rick http://helpmerick.com/should-you-pay-for-avg.htm/comment-page-1#comment-5602 Rick Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:15:26 +0000 http://helpmerick.com/?p=3343#comment-5602 As a business guy myself, I completely understand your point Matt. However, remember that the power of free is that AVG and other products over the years build their name recognition and get their foot in the door of business by giving away products. I regularly donate money (albeit small amounts) to open source or free products that I benefit from and encourage others to do so as well. In this case, though, AVG provides great protection for home and novice computer users with minimal input from the user. As a business guy myself, I completely understand your point Matt. However, remember that the power of free is that AVG and other products over the years build their name recognition and get their foot in the door of business by giving away products. I regularly donate money (albeit small amounts) to open source or free products that I benefit from and encourage others to do so as well. In this case, though, AVG provides great protection for home and novice computer users with minimal input from the user.

]]> By: John Wilkenson http://helpmerick.com/should-you-pay-for-avg.htm/comment-page-1#comment-5601 John Wilkenson Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:50:10 +0000 http://helpmerick.com/?p=3343#comment-5601 I'm with you, Rick, I checked the link and I just don't need the extra services. The free version has all the features I need - at least for now. I’m with you, Rick, I checked the link and I just don’t need the extra services. The free version has all the features I need – at least for now.

]]> By: Matthew Kettlewell http://helpmerick.com/should-you-pay-for-avg.htm/comment-page-1#comment-5600 Matthew Kettlewell Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:41:26 +0000 http://helpmerick.com/?p=3343#comment-5600 I'm also one of the "you get what you pay for" advocates... AVG is pretty descent though, and if it's saved you time and hassle, paying for the premium version *might* be a worthwhile effort, or at the very least, a nice gesture to show appreciation for a time that they saved your butt. I use Prevx because they were the only AV software that could clean up my machine, and did it in 5 minutes... after spending 2 days with other free and paid AV software... So I chose to pay the premium price, as a token of appreciation.... I think that Free is great, and if a business can support the business model, then it's even better. But if they find that they can't stay in business with free, then they need to convert to paid, or they'll lose the entire company, and lot's of users will be left scrambling for another solution, and will opt for a paid solution anyhow because of being burned by a free solution that abandoned them... Anyhow, I use free for 90% of what I do, because it works well, and is available...but not all models can sustain free for very long - maybe AVG is just now realizing it. I’m also one of the “you get what you pay for” advocates…

AVG is pretty descent though, and if it’s saved you time and hassle, paying for the premium version *might* be a worthwhile effort, or at the very least, a nice gesture to show appreciation for a time that they saved your butt.

I use Prevx because they were the only AV software that could clean up my machine, and did it in 5 minutes… after spending 2 days with other free and paid AV software…

So I chose to pay the premium price, as a token of appreciation….

I think that Free is great, and if a business can support the business model, then it’s even better.

But if they find that they can’t stay in business with free, then they need to convert to paid, or they’ll lose the entire company, and lot’s of users will be left scrambling for another solution, and will opt for a paid solution anyhow because of being burned by a free solution that abandoned them…

Anyhow, I use free for 90% of what I do, because it works well, and is available…but not all models can sustain free for very long – maybe AVG is just now realizing it.

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