AVG free, not free?

Thanks for the advice on others - but I have used and want to continue to use AVG. But, even when I go to these sites, and download and it says 'download successful' - when I push the AVG button on taskbar or on desktop, it pops a window that says it's expired.

Up until a month or so ago, when I clicked the taskbar, it popped a window that allowed me to run a scan or see last scans, and other useful info - now, it tells me its expired - so it makes me think something else in stuck in there wanting me to buy something I don't want.

All I did in the past was go to www.download.com and it loaded fine, now it's not there anymore. That's why I makes me think something in my PC is sending me somewhere else when I try to go to AVG - but Monkey is to tech stupid to figure it out. :( :(

The free.avg.com link I gave you takes you directly to AVG's own download page. Not to CNET's site? If you're not getting their free AV download page, then something else is going on with your system.

Uninstall the AVG that is on your PC that has expired - then download the free version and install it with a clean install. When installing be careful what you click on so that you do not install any browser tool bars, etc. which seems to be the norm with most free software downloads lately. I have AVG on one computer and AVAST on another - both are free and both work well. Both have paid versions that are in bold download fonts to lead you away from the free versions which are in small print somewhere near the bottom of the page. I prefer the AVAST but it did not play nice with the firewall on one of my computers and AVG did.

I would recommend going to cnet.com and do the following:

Download Ccleaner and use it to uninstal the AVG that you have on your machine.

Download Malwarebytes anti Malware and run a quick scan

Download AVG free (second pick for downloads on Cnet.

You should be all set after this. The first two are useful tools to have on your machine.

There are 3 AVG products

one is a 30 day trial
one is the same program, Paid for

The third is AVG free.. you have to dig for it on the web site but it's there.

Or you could switch to another program such as AVAST.

NOTE: AVG programs do "Expire" it's their way of saying it's time for a MAJOR update as opposed to a patch update.

Just get past the junk / spam pop ups and the free AVG is still there. That's what I use too. But it does do an auto upgrade periodically the puts you through update hell.

even worse are all those MS Explorer "updates" that end up changing your home page, search engines, and tool bars.