jane59 wrote:also have my AVG but read a few forums and some claimed they were coming from AVG free edition to make us buy the full version.....whats your views on that idea?
I dont think these companies would deliberately aim pop ups and spyware at there own software just to make you buy the Pay for version. It just that the free version doesnt protect you from everything the full version does.
The following is a general opinion, not aimed at Jane59
To be honest, in this day and age, if you still use a free version of firewall, anti virus or spyware, then you are more or less asking for things to go wrong. £30 or £40 pounds a year to protect yourself is not a lot of money, if it saves you the hassle of going through hours of trying to fix the problem. Most adults will spend more than that in a week on alcohol &/or cigarettes or close to that a month for your broadband connection.
I get at least 30 attempts a day from outside influences trying to get access to my pc and the only reason i know this is because of my Zone Alarm Firewall, which logs every one. 11 today since i booted this pc, which was about 40 mins ago.
I bet everyone on this forum will have dealt with some sort of problem in this area at some point and i bet a good deal of them paid for protection afterwards. I know i did.