AVG now works with Windows Vista
I know that AVG Free Edition from Grisoft is very popular. But if you tried to install it or one of the commercial AVG anti-virus products on Windows Vista Beta 2 it didn’t install properly. Apparently that’s now been fixed. A download available via Windows Update fixes the installation issue, according to Grisoft. I can confirm that Critical Update 920296 was automatically installed here a couple of days ago. If you’re able to run AVG on Windows Vista, post a comment below.
Microsoft’s KB article 921583 describes the update and includes links for manual downloads of the update. And no, I have no idea why the article and the update have different numbers.
And a reminder that Trend Micro and CA both have free Windows Vista-compatible evaluation versions of their security software available.
Update: In the comments, Mike Dimmick notes that the AVG update is actually numbered 921590. He’s right, as a more careful reading of the article confirms. Update 920296 fixes a separate installation issue that affects unspecified applications.. Thanks, Mike.
I just installed Vista today–still fumbling around, but one of the first things I did was to subscribe to your feeds (I did a clean install on a new partition so, right now, very few favorites or feeds). I remembered reading this so I thought I’d tell you that I was able to install the free version of AVG and it seems to be working OK. If there are any changes, I’ll post again.
According to KB 921583, it’s actually update 921590 that fixes AVG. I haven’t yet installed it because it’s rejecting my licence number for AVG Professional Edition.
Occasionally MS does make a single catch-all KB article rather than writing one for each update, as they have in this case. They are ensuring that they issue a unique number per update, however.
Hi Ed!
I managed to install it once, then after that it wouldn’t initialize after a restart. But I could launch it off the desktop
On this clean Vista install, Windows up to date, I can’t even install it!
. . . just tried again and it’s working fine (sigh).
Bill,
That’s Murphy’s Law of Beta Software.