AVG

• Ptky1010

  14 Dec 09, 16:30

  Anyone have any idea if i can use AVG for company usage? Is there any copy right law govern against this? I notice that the avg http://free.avg.com/us-en/avg-anti-virus-7-licence-agreement-eula mentioned that it is for home use thereof.
  
  Is it alright if i use it for company usage on a large scale basis?
  Help!
  
  Thanks
  

• Herzog_Zwei

  14 Dec 09, 16:32

  Not on company usage please. the GNU covers only home usage and not for commercial use.

• hisoka

  14 Dec 09, 16:35

  Originally posted by Ptky1010:

  Anyone have any idea if i can use AVG for company usage? Is there any copy right law govern against this? I notice that the avg http://free.avg.com/us-en/avg-anti-virus-7-licence-agreement-eula mentioned that it is for home use thereof.
  
  Is it alright if i use it for company usage on a large scale basis?
  Help!
  
  Thanks

  obviously not. the eula says only for home and personal non-commercial/profit use. company usage on large scale basis obviously don't fall under that.................

   

• Ptky1010

  14 Dec 09, 16:53

  Originally posted by Herzog_Zwei:

  Not on company usage please. the GNU covers only home usage and not for commercial use.

  Hi, thanks for the prompt reply guys, i see.. currently my new IT support guy removed alot of my company's anti-virus to install AVG.. i'm quite worried now that u guys're telling me that it's not right.
  
  Are we just violating the right for technical support from AVG or is it something more serious?

  Any idea where can i get more information? Might have to consider purchasing Anti virus softwares.. where to find cheap deals?
  
  Thanks!

• hisoka

  14 Dec 09, 16:59

  AVG has company versions as well I think. It's only the free one that's free and well restricted.

  You should get your IT department to do and justify these things.

• Herzog_Zwei

  14 Dec 09, 17:00

  Originally posted by Ptky1010:

  Hi, thanks for the prompt reply guys, i see.. currently my new IT support guy removed alot of my company's anti-virus to install AVG.. i'm quite worried now that u guys're telling me that it's not right.
  
  Are we just violating the right for technical support from AVG or is it something more serious?

  Any idea where can i get more information? Might have to consider purchasing Anti virus softwares.. where to find cheap deals?
  
  Thanks!

  
  for company, no such thing as cheap deals. Another way to bypass this law is for the company to sponsor the employees in buying the computers and as such the ownership is now passed to employees and thus avg 7.0 can be downloaded legally.

• Ptky1010

  14 Dec 09, 17:31

  I see...alright, it's is quite costly.. about 100 over computers are installed with AVG at the moment and i haven't heard of any anti-virus violation yet.. but better be safe than sorry.. okay thanks guys!

• GIB

  14 Dec 09, 20:46

  If you want free for office use, there's Microsoft Security Essentials. Or you could go for Comodo.

• TrueHeart

  16 Dec 09, 00:33

  Originally posted by Ptky1010:

  I see...alright, it's is quite costly.. about 100 over computers are installed with AVG at the moment and i haven't heard of any anti-virus violation yet.. but better be safe than sorry.. okay thanks guys!

  Hi Ptky1010,

  The agreement you have posted up only applies to the free version of AVG only. Your company is likely to have bought one of these:

  http://www.avg.com/ww-en/business-security

  Cheers.