[jezza]

Installed 8.0 on my old antique, installed & works fine although i have disabled linkscanner.

[Mike0001]

There is a possible bug. History-->Virus Vault causes an error warning to appear:

"Enumerating virus vault objects failed"

Then it appears to hang. I cannot close the virus vault.

Can anyone confirm?

[evilfantasy]

I'm still boycotting AVG right now

I will keep an eye out for anything mentioned on it though.

[philthomas]

Still running good on my Vista box Mike .... no probs so far.

[evilfantasy]

OK, some more AVG bashing from me.

It looks like AVG is refusing to allow other anti-malware apps to run (peacefully) along with the new 8.0 version since it has anti-malware built in to it.

An "ActiveX Compatibility" registry key is a result of the "Immunize" function included in some anti-spyware programs (e.g.: "Spybot search & destroy", "Spyware blaster",...) The key contains the same registry entries as the actual threats, thus preventing them from working correctly. Some anti-spyware programs use this method to prevent launching of the malware. Unfortunately, these parts are still detected by AVG signatures and that is why AVG marks them as infected. To assure protection provided by AVG against these threats, it is not possible to remove such signatures from AVG virus bases. Because of this, "Immunize" function included in above mentioned softwares is NOT compatible with AVG products. http://www.grisoft.com/ww.faq.num-1067

So AVG thinks that their database/definitions should be the only thing protecting a users computer from here on out. I think we all know that layered protection is the best method and you should never "put all your eggs in one basket" so to speak.

[Mike0001]

Nasty! Just what Norton does!

[philthomas]

Hmmmmm. ....... I've got SuperAntiSpyware and SpywareBlaster running with AVG 8 and so far all seems good. .... I haven't got SpyBot S & D installed though

[evilfantasy]

I haven't seen a bunch of these complaints but have seen maybe a half dozen or so. The fact that AVG's response is "Because of this, "Immunize" function included in above mentioned softwares is NOT compatible with AVG products." shows how much interest they have in actually helping users protect themselves.

[serverguy]

They really are going down the Norton route ain't they....

[evilfantasy]

Here is another quote from chaslang at majorgeeks.com (one of the best malware fighters there is!)

You may want to read comments I had on this here: http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=159452 I don't agree with Grisoft. I feel their software needs to be rewritten to properly look for the actual infection not the CLSID. If this issue does not get resolved, we may need to pull AVG from the recommend antivirus list since it will be quite annoying!!!

I will be watching their recommend antivirus list and follow suit if they do pull it.