AVG Anti-Virus Free

Tomass · **Joined:** Tue Oct 28, 2008 6:09 pm **Posts:** 3

Hey guys, this is my first post as you can see

Regarding Anon's method of installing AVG Free on Server 2008, I thought the process might be a bit confusing for some people.
I've extracted, edited, modified and re-packed the entire installation to make it more-or-less a click-and-go process.

I've added a simple .reg file to add the registry key, and a little batch file which runs the .reg silently, then runs the installation after unpacking.

If you have any doubts about the content of the file, you're free scan it and use WinRAR to extract the files from the SFX (Self Extracting EXE).

EDIT: I've uploaded a Zip to a service using Amazon's S3 hosting, so this should turn out to be quite a reliable and fast mirror. Included in this new package also is a quick and dirty .BAT file which will rename a couple of files and hide those annoying AVG notification messages.

Download: AVG Free (8.0.173) for Server 2008

Arris · **Posted:** Sun Nov 02, 2008 3:41 pm

Hey Tomass, first: welcome on the Win2008Workstation.com Forums.

Nice job creating an installer so people don't have to fix it all their selves!

I added the url to this topic to Anonymous' comment.

I won't add the installer on the Win2008Workstation Server to save bandwidth and because it's not really a part of Windows. In stead I created 2 mirrors:
Rapidshare: AVG_ServerNT_8.0b173.exe (50,3MB)
4Shared: AVG_ServerNT_8.0b173.exe (50,3MB)

Greetings, Arris

Nite · **Joined:** Tue Oct 21, 2008 4:18 am **Posts:** 20

thanks! this will make it easier for future server 2008 installs

Tomass · **Joined:** Tue Oct 28, 2008 6:09 pm **Posts:** 3

I've just updated my original mirror to one hosted by a service using Amazon S3, should be quite fast & reliable.

Also added to the archive, a bat file which removes those annoying, nagging notification messages.

If you've already got AVG installed, you can make the bat file yourself without downloading.
AVG8RemoveNotifications.bat

Code:

@echo OFF
ren "%ProgramFiles%\AVG\AVG8\avgmwdef_us.mht" avgmwdef_us.mht.bak
ren "%ProgramFiles%\AVG\AVG8\avgresf.dll" avgresf.dll.bak
echo Notifications hidden.
pause
exit

Arris · **Posted:** Sat Dec 20, 2008 12:41 pm

Good work! New mirror is quite fast indeed. I didn't know the File Hosting Service FilePanda yet, but it's a nice one without time limits and so forth!

Currently (20/12/08) your installer has been downloaded 133 times from RapidShare and 87 times from 4Shared.

Nite · **Joined:** Tue Oct 21, 2008 4:18 am **Posts:** 20

AVG 8.5 just came out, can someone make a custom installer package for it to work on server 2008 please?

edit: nm I got it working, the same method I used before worked on it.

foxtrot · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2009 12:43 am

Nite can you upload your Version?

thx foxtrot

xxcom9a · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2009 9:25 pm

foxtrot wrote:

Nite can you upload your Version?

thx foxtrot

Krkan created a custom installer package here.

maoxin87 · **Joined:** Wed Oct 28, 2009 2:08 pm **Posts:** 1

What about one for AVG 9.0? It's released already. I tried using the manual method on the other thread, which worked for 8.5, but not 9.0. Thanks in advance!

xxcom9a · **Posted:** Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:57 pm

maoxin87 wrote:

What about one for AVG 9.0? It's released already. I tried using the manual method on the other thread, which worked for 8.5, but not 9.0. Thanks in advance!

As you can see from the R2 Security Software page, the tweak does not work for the 9.x version of AVG as they changed the installer.

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