>>>>Maybe I'm a bit slow on this but are AVG now bullying us into buying, rather than FREE. Lately all my updates have failed, I go to their site, there's no free edition offered, a link for free users' updates that goes round in a loop, etc. Any recommendations? >>> >>>Here is a link in Australia that appears to have that which you seek. >>>http://www.avg.com.au/index.cfm?section=avg&action=avg_anti_virus_free_edition >>>Scroll down a bit to find the download. >> >>Thanks Grady. It's very similar to the AVG site proper, and an attempt to download free 8 resulted in the same "cannot find ... " message as I get when the daily update starts - that's my point. > >Try this one: (just released today) >http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/AVG_AntiVirus_Free/1028312263/1