AVG antivirus V9 upgrade causes problems with AdWords Editor

Dec 2nd, 2009 | By David Rothwell | Category: ADWORDS, Editor

I’ve been using free AVG for years as virus protection, with nothing but praise for a great program which renders paid-for software like Norton, MacAfee and the like unnecessary.

I did try the paid upgrade to AVG earlier in the year with the belief that the extra levels of protection it could provide would be worthwhile.

However, omens were not good when my PC crashed with the blue screen of death during installation.

So I safely reverted back to v8.5

Recently AVG have been publishing an upgrade deadline of December 1st to move up to version 9, which I’d been ignoring for a while.

But yesterday I upgraded to free AVG9, which seems a much superior version.

Later in the day though, AdWords Editor was hanging up in the middle of routine account downloads, and I lost an evenings and a morning’s work.

The only change was AVG V9, so I uninstalled it. AdWords Editor came back to life – thank goodness. Just goes to show that I can’t do my work without it, it’s that critical.

So if you are a mission-critical user of AdWords Editor, and a user of AVG free v8.5 looking to upgrade to V9 – take care, you have been warned…

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