{"id":734,"date":"2009-03-30T19:07:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T18:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/?p=734"},"modified":"2014-04-11T18:26:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T17:26:03","slug":"avg-85-free-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/734","title":{"rendered":"AVG 8.5 Free is here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This caught me a bit by surprise as we use the paid system on most of the machines I manage and, on there, the update is automatic. However, if you use the free version then you will soon be getting update suggestions. There doesn&#8217;t seem to be a time limit yet unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/337\">last year&#8217;s debacle<\/a> so there is no panic, but it will need to be done sometime. It looks quite stable and, as I said, has been on the paid version for a little while.<\/p>\n<p>To get and install it, you need to navigate through their site. You don&#8217;t want the free trial versions, you need the real free version, the one they call <a href=\"http:\/\/free.avg.com\/\">Free Basic Protection<\/a>. From then on the install is just like <a href=\"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/330\">version 8 which I documented last year<\/a>, except there may be a few fewer questions to trip you up. If you have disabled the link scanner in the browser, it doesn&#8217;t seem to get reset or maybe it is not used any more, I am not sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This caught me a bit by surprise as we use the paid system on most of the machines I manage and, on there, the update is automatic. However, if you use the free version then you will soon be getting update suggestions. There doesn&#8217;t seem to be a time limit yet unlike last year&#8217;s debacle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12,5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-browsers","category-security","category-technical","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1499,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}