Want AVG 7.5 back!!!

May 3, 2008 11:53 AM

Looking for AVG Antivirus 7.5 freeware. I just installed 8.0 and I want to go back!

After upgrading to Grisoft AVG 8.0 I decided I didn't like it: It's not user friendly and does way more than I want. I'd love to go back to the old version (7.5) but I had to uninstall it and I no longer have the installation files. I looked but I can't find version 7.5 anywhere. Can anyone help?

posted by Rad_Boy to Computers & Internet (12 answers total)

Filehippo.com has old versions of software, including AVG Antivirus!
posted by rumbles at 11:58 AM on May 3, 2008

oldversion.com is a standby for this sort of thing.
posted by Zed_Lopez at 12:07 PM on May 3, 2008

Response by poster: After looking at the Filehippo site, the versions of AVG Anti-Spyware available appear to be the professional bloated versions. I'm not sure, though. I'll keep looking. Thanks.
posted by Rad_Boy at 12:09 PM on May 3, 2008

Be careful: They're stopping updates on 7.5 on May 31.
posted by General Malaise at 1:19 PM on May 3, 2008

Having old AV software is basically the same as having no AV software.

Personally, I'm in the no AV camp.
posted by jeffamaphone at 1:35 PM on May 3, 2008

There is a time and a place for antivirus. I have ClamAV installed to manually scan things that I downloaded from .. less than authentic... sources, and I have a question about.
posted by SirStan at 3:01 PM on May 3, 2008

Check your memail.
posted by SlyBevel at 3:31 PM on May 3, 2008

On second thought, email won't be the best way to handle this. Anyone know where I can drop a 32MB file so that y'all can pull it?

I have AVG Free 7.5.516 updated Jan 2008.
posted by SlyBevel at 3:36 PM on May 3, 2008

SlyBevel: "On second thought, email won't be the best way to handle this. Anyone know where I can drop a 32MB file so that y'all can pull it?

I have AVG Free 7.5.516 updated Jan 2008."

Yousendit
posted by aerotive at 3:49 PM on May 3, 2008

Ok, here's the file:

AVG Free 7.5.516

I forgot to put "Free" in the file's name, but it really is the free version, I promise.

~32MB.
posted by SlyBevel at 4:06 PM on May 3, 2008

If the link doesn't work you could try switching to Avast, I made the switch from AVG due to the 8 upgrade seeming to be Grisoft's way of matching Norton in sucktitude. Avast makes me happy so far, but do some research on it for yourself.
posted by occidental at 12:39 AM on May 5, 2008

I'm going to try out Avast. Any other suggestions for free antivirus software for Windows?
posted by grouse at 1:42 AM on May 29, 2008