"dogbreath" <mr.mxyzptlk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>I run AVG Free on several home computers. Lately when AVG does an
> update, when it finishes the update it goes on to re-install Firefox
> in its latest version (already installed), and leaves me with a "new"
> Firefox installed, and two tabs up: one is the "Welcome to Firefox"
> page and the other is a marketing page from AVG to buy into their
> pay-for version. That's a minor nuisance, but the problem is it
> trashes all my bookmarks.
>
> Fortunately, Firefox has bookmarks backed up every which way but
> Sunday, so restoring bookmarks is just another damned inconvenience.
>
> The strangest thing about this is apparently I'm the only person in
> the world seeing this kind of behavior. I check into alt.computer and
> alt.fan.mozilla regularly, and I've seen no mention of such a problem.
>
> AVG Free has a forum that I check into sometimes, but they're very
> unfriendly. Most of the people who go there just get scolded for
> posting to the wrong subject, or for not including some item of info
> about their OS, or some stupid thing.
>
> My question isn't why does AVG do this. (I know why they do it --
> because they're marketing geeks, s*** of the earth.) My question is --
> Why am I apparently the only person in the world who has seen this
> behavior?
I have AVG on four different computers...three with Windows XP, one with
Windows 98SE. At no time does this happen on any of them. What I would
suggest is to uninstall AVG. Restart your computer, redownload AVG (from
free.grisoft.com...do NOT get it from anywhere else) and install it.
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"The human adventure is just beginning"
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