AVG Antivirus is no longer free

Crystal X
2 min readSep 1, 2024

I have been using AVG Antivirus freely for the past decade with no problems whatsoever. In fact, I liked the free antivirus software so much that I had installed the AVG secure browser on my laptop.

For the last couple of weeks I had been receiving messages on my laptop saying that my AVG antivirus software was about to expire, and eventually I received a message advising me that the subscription to the software package had expired.

Early this morning I decided to carry out an internet search on whether AVG was still free, and I was given the information that the antivirus software is still free but the company is trying to direct people to the paid version of the software package.

I therefore attempted to renew my subscription to the free version of AVG and was blocked from doing so, being given a message that the free facility was not available and to try again later. In essence, I no longer had any virus protection unless I paid for it.

I was worried about this so searched for another free virus protection and was able to install Avira on my laptop, giving me basic virus protection.

I then uninstalled AVG Antivirus from my laptop because I don’t want to expend memory capacity that I don’t have to. When I uninstalled the package, AVG wanted to know why I was uninstalling the software…

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Crystal X

I have over five decades experience in the world of work, being in fast food, the military, business, non-profits, and the healthcare sector.