Renewing a/v suite...but what a swiz!

Had renewed my a/v suite on the laptop this morning and now doing the desktop, so they both expire the same day. It was only 19.99, reduced, and now I understand why. It didn't say, on the product image that it's a 2013 version, not 2014. Had I known, I might as well just renewed by getting the new key, but had to uninstall old one first.

Don't like being duped!

Sticking with free AVG on the netbook.

Re: Renewing a/v suite...but what a swiz!

I have always used free AVG Jazzi and had no problems.

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I also use the free AVG too even though I have access to Kaspersky through my bank.

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I also use Microsoft Security Essentials which is free, along with my AVG.

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You shouldn't use 2 AV products together, if you Google the question several sites will confirm this including AVG

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What AV suite was it?

It usually doesn't matter whether you buy the 2013 or 2014 version of a suite. In fact, many people buy older versions as a way of saving money. What you are really buying is a new key and this gives support for a year, including any program updates or new releases within that period.

It is the case that all that needed to be done was renew the key without uninstalling/reinstalling.

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Running two anti virus programs will slow your computer down (basically they fight each other). Get rid of M$ Security Essentials it has always been a pretty lightweight program anyway.

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I use Norton ..as it got towards the end of its 1 yr licence i got e mails counting down the days ...it offered me the option to renew through the symantic (Norton) website for £69...I bought a new Key from curry's for £34.99...

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I just use FREE Avast antivirus and very rarely get any problems. I find a lot of the people's stuff I get to fix have installed tool bars more often than not that enable hackers to bypass all the protection on your computer and you end up with popups, hyjacked home page and the like. Some of these are a right pain to remove too. If you do encounter such then malwarebytes.org is a good place to visit. They offer a free program for detection and you can normally find out how to go about removing the crap too. But failing the FREE Avast I keep away from suites of any sort as they can be as bad as the damn stuff you are trying to protect yourself from - or at least it used to be like that where you would have a hell of a job to remove it, with Norton being notorious in this respect at one time forcing you to renew; hell I had a laptop not so long ago that would not connect to the internet because the suite had expired - blow that.

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there's no need to pay for security when there's so many good free progs out there that work well