{"id":62,"date":"2007-11-17T08:27:56","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T15:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/2007\/11\/17\/avg-anti-virus-promoting-upgrade-to-their-free-product-which-most-people-dont-need\/"},"modified":"2015-03-12T00:01:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T07:01:51","slug":"avg-anti-virus-promoting-upgrade-to-their-free-product-which-most-people-dont-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/avg-anti-virus-promoting-upgrade-to-their-free-product-which-most-people-dont-need\/","title":{"rendered":"AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition promoting upgrade to their not-free product which most people don&#8217;t need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition has recently been aggressively promoting an upgrade to their not-free Internet Security software. In my opinion, this is an upgrade which most people don&#8217;t need.<\/p>\n<p>The upgraded software adds Anti-Spyware, Anti-Spam and Firewall protection &#8211; most of which is redundant protection that most users already have. While their Anti-Spyware product is good, it is also available as a free separate download. Most email providers offer spam protection\/filtering, and AVG&#8217;s Anti-Spam product only works in an e-mail client such as Outlook Express. Windows XP and Windows Vista already have an inbound firewall, and hardware routers offer inbound firewall protection. AVG&#8217;s outbound firewall is similar to other outbound firewalls that pop-up sometimes confusing questions when it detects outbound internet access.<\/p>\n<p>In summary, I don&#8217;t recommend upgrading to their Internet Security product.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"AVG Test Center upgrade advertisement\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61\" href=\"http:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/2007\/11\/avg-anti-virus-promoting-upgrade-to-their-free-product-which-most-people-dont-need\/avg-test-center-upgrade-advertisement\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/avgupgrade.jpg\" alt=\"AVG Test Center upgrade advertisement\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"AVG upgrade website\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63\" href=\"http:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/2007\/11\/avg-anti-virus-promoting-upgrade-to-their-free-product-which-most-people-dont-need\/avg-upgrade-website\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/avgupgrade-website.jpg\" alt=\"AVG upgrade website\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition has recently been aggressively promoting an upgrade to their not-free Internet Security software. In my opinion, this is an upgrade which most people don&#8217;t need. The upgraded software adds Anti-Spyware, Anti-Spam and Firewall protection &#8211; most of which is redundant protection that most users already have. While their Anti-Spyware product is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived","category-computing-tips","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2152,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/2152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}