mae, thanks for your information. For some strange reasons after I was
notified in my MSN email that my question had been answered I was able to
click on it and return to you answer in this forum. I have not been able to
do that before after installing AVG 8.0. Now if I was just able to open the
power point file being sent to me as well as the WMV files I would be back in
business like when I had the AVG 7.5 version. I do not have any problems
opening the power point files I had stored on my computer prior to the
installation of 8.0. This would indicate to me that something is happening to
the files coming into my MSN Email but I have not found anything yet that
would cause it. I do have a question in to the AVG technical team but it
takes them so long to answer. The last time it took them over a week to get
back to me. I was hoping that some one on this forum may had this problem
before and found a cure. Thanks mae, I will consider what you have advised.
By the way I did not install the AVG tool bar.
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Wayne


"mae" wrote:

Wayne, FWIW, I have been a avid user/fan of AVG for years now but with the
"upgrade from version 7.5 to 8, it has caused more problems than it has
fixed. EX: conflicts with other Spyware programs, false positives, etc...
After speaking with many people on Security Forums , reading online
professionial and user reviews incl: www.VirusBulletin and
av-comparatives.org then installing and testing a few myself, including
AVG8, I uninstalled AVG and now have gone to Avira Antivir. It is easier, it
is a simple straight forward AV with no extras to bog down your system and
has real tech support on it's online forum. Best of all, it's free. I dont
work for them btw, just recommending them to everyone I know.

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marx404

Thanks for sharing that information with me Marx. I will definately consider
what you have said. I have never had any problem with the 7.5 AVG which I had
for two years.
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Wayne


"marx404" wrote:

My main motivation is the nag screens in ver 7.5 that said support for 7.5
will end this month. Tried ver.8, absolute rubbish, so I went shopping for a
better free AV.

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marx404

Thanks marx. I will give it consideration. I have the commercial version of
AVG Antivirus which cost me $42.00. Hopefully they will find, and remove some
of the bugs out of it. At least for the last two times now, I have been able
to click on this link in my MSN e-mail and come back to this answer. For some
unknown reason I could not do that before. If I can figure out a way to open
the WMV files I receive I will be ok. Since I also upgraded to windows live
messenger from MSN Messenger I am beginning to wonderif that may be my
problem. The only thing that is strange is I do not have any problems opening
WMV or power point files that I had saved on my computer before installing
AVG. and windows live messenger so I don't really know which one to blame.
Although I do know that AVG did screw up my MSN Messenger and that is the
only reason I changed to windows live messenger.
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Wayne


"marx404" wrote:

Why bother with either one of those programs? You don't need them..
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Wayne

If you have a recurring problem do not forget you can configure your AVG
8. Advanced Setting. PUP Exceptions.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Wayne wrote:

Gerry, I noticed the pup within the AVG interface, but I did not think that
would pertain to small programs like WMV and power point that came in with my
MSN e-mail messages. I was thinking that was for the programs that was stored
in other areas of the computer away from the e-mail program, but I could be
wrong about that. I will definately check this out. It seems that some of the
power point programs will open and others won't and that is what puzzles me.
Thanks.
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Wayne


"Gerry" wrote:

Wayne

You should not get programmes in attachments. You should only be seeing
files that may be opened if you have the relevant programme to open the
file.

Software that can play WMV files include Windows Media Player, The
KMPlayer, PowerDVD, RealPlayer, MPlayer, VLC Media Player, Zoom Player
and Media Player Classic.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMV

You need Powerpoint for a Powerpoint file.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Wayne wrote:

Gerry, WMP is where I open my wmv files which comes from folks sending me
forwards in their e-mail. I like to be able to get those as some are quite
cute. I have the power point reader 2003 and my .pps files opens in this
program. The last two .pps files and the last .wmv file seemed to open fine.
Maybe I have been getting corrupted wmv and power point files and I have been
blaming it on AVG 8.0. I guess this could possibly be a conincidence, I hope
so. I will see what happens in the future. Thank again Gerry.
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Wayne


"Gerry" wrote:

I never have a problem with a .wmv or .pps file. BUT, I do not use AVG at
any level.
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