Avast 5.0 download

[mikaelrask]

or if your short on money you could get good protection with free programs that will complement avast good like malwarebytes and a firewall like outpost, pc tools.

[wally2]

I know with my dial up connection I cannot possibly download the free 5.0 version.
52 some MB and would take 14+ hours to do so.
Guess I'll have to switch to AVG now. 

[igor]

And what makes you think that AVG installation is smaller?

[spg SCOTT]

As igor says, AVG is actually a bigger install file...

The smaller one is (I presume) a stub installer that downloads more from the web...

Maybe you could get someone to download it for you from somewhere with a stronger connection, or a library for instance

[DavidR]

I know with my dial up connection I cannot possibly download the free 5.0 version.
52 some MB and would take 14+ hours to do so.
Guess I'll have to switch to AVG now. 

As has been said even the avast installation file is comparative at the least and smaller than many other AV installation files. AVG 9 installation file is almost twice the size of avast5 free multi-language version and over twice the size of the avast5 free English version installation file, see image.

This link (see below) it to the English language (only) version and not the multi-language installation version and weighs in at around 42MB, still a long haul on dial-up, but not as bad as some.

http://files.avast.com/iavs5x/setup_av_free_eng.exe (English only)

Have you tried using a download manager, at the very least you can resume where you left off it needs be. Have you got a friend with broadband that can download it and burn to CD or USB. Have you got a local library or other public service with broadband, etc. and download it from there.

I have only very recently got broadband (very slow 256Kbps) 9 days ago and before that I got on with avast on dial-up for over six and a half years. That was when I abandoned AVG and I haven't looked back,

[wally2]

just what I saw at CNET it said the AVG download ws 2.03 MB-that would take me only about 45 minutes or so to download.  ( 28.8 kbps here, consider yourself high speed to me , lol )


What download manager do you reccommend?

[igor]

AVG download is 2MB - but it's only an online installer that downloads the rest itself; the rest will most likely be more than 50MB.

[DavidR]

just what I saw at CNET it said the AVG download ws 2.03 MB-that would take me only about 45 minutes or so to download.  ( 28.8 kbps here, consider yourself high speed to me , lol )

What download manager do you reccommend?

If you click to expand Scott's image above mine you will see the small file is the AVG download manager in this case only 1MB, which will download and install the free AVG version (also as Igor said).

There are many free download managers, I used to use Orbit downloader, but now I have Download Them All, which is a firefox add-on as that is my default browser.

AVG download is 2MB - but it's only an online installer that downloads the rest itself; the rest will most likely be more than 50MB.

I would have thought that the rest would be at least the balance of the 89MB AVG free installation file.