{"id":25,"date":"2008-12-02T12:29:52","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T18:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2008-12-02T12:29:52","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T18:29:52","slug":"avg-8-free-slicker-interface-more-bloat-less-functionality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/avg-8-free-slicker-interface-more-bloat-less-functionality\/","title":{"rendered":"AVG 8 Free: slicker interface, more bloat, less functionality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/avg-stupid.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26\" title=\"avg-stupid\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/avg-stupid.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I installed AVG 8 Free. I think was using 7.5 Free before. The new interface is nice, but AVG seems to be going the Microsoft\/Norton\/Nero philosophy of adding as much junk as possible to get as many bullet points for their sales departments as possible. I also scanned some Microsoft Word macro viruses, and it wouldn&#8217;t let me heal them! The old version worked, but I guess if you want your antivirus scanner to do things like pop up helpful suggestions every second, you got to get rid of useless functionality like&#8230; cleaning viruses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I installed AVG 8 Free. I think was using 7.5 Free before. The new interface is nice, but AVG seems to be going the Microsoft\/Norton\/Nero philosophy of adding as much junk as possible to get as many bullet points for their sales departments as possible. I also scanned some Microsoft Word macro viruses, and&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/avg-8-free-slicker-interface-more-bloat-less-functionality\/\" title=\"AVG 8 Free: slicker interface, more bloat, less functionality\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AVG 8 Free: slicker interface, more bloat, less functionality<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}