There is an update to the virus definitions once every weekday. Whether if in the free edition they delay those by a few days I don't know. If they do, it hasn't matter virus wise to my system.

I guess they are hoping that us techies will then recommend the pro version for our businesses.

We run Trend Anti-virus at work. Pretty good but everyone once in a while we get an infection and Trend can't clean the system, even after updating the defs. So far AVG has been used in every one of these cases to wipe out the virus. Unfortunately, I can't influence the anti-virus choice in our gigantic organization.

>I don't understand how they ever make any money, if, as you and other(s) say, the free version is totally satisfactory. Is it that the updates to the risk database isn't as regular/up-to-the-minute as it could be?
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>It's certainly better than the version of NAV I have at the moment though, eh?
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>>Here it is. Free for personal use. http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1
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>>>Hmmmm, I googles AVG and got several sites - some offering free 30 day trial (v 7.5 or something), complete with anti-spy and all - others offering no lilitations free (version 7.1.??????) So which is it?
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>>>>I went through crap with NAV as well. Installed AVG free edition. Works so well that I don't even think about anti-virus stuff much at all.
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>>>>>My NAV came up for renewal last week on my home PC (I'd had the nag message for a month)
>>>>>I went to renew, and chose to upgrade to NAV 2007 (I had 2004)
>>>>>I paid my dues and went through the download process, culminating in installing the setup software.
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>>>>>(here's where it all gets a bit confusing and hazy as I went through so many steps)
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