i have a 2 year license for AVG pro 7.5 ... they have released a new version AVG 8 and I upgraded my license ... after installing this new version the computer slowed down considerably and it reminded me of the good old days of Norton ... I finally uninstalled AVG 8 and put 7.5 back on .... they included a spyware thing with the new version and when I did my first scan with the new version I almost fell on the floor ... there were well over 12,000 so called warnings listed for spyware and potential threats ... for the life of me I couldn't figure out what was going on because I knew there was no way that all that stuff was on my computer, and there was also no way that I could delete any of this stuff, the program wouldn't let me ... after doing some reading I found out that all these listed warnings and threats, weren't threats at all, but a conflict between AVG 8 and Spybot .... all this stuff listed was everything that Spybot had immunized ... it is also my understanding that AVG will eventually be fading out the free version 7.5 sometime this year, and going with a free version of 8 ... needless to say, I don't have a good feeling about this ... I am looking for something to replace AVG with ... I have read different posts on here about Avast and AntiVir ... do either of them do scheduled scans in the free version ... and if they don't, is there any harm in not having scheduled scans and having to rely on doing manual scans ... Avg scans everyday, which is a pain in the butt ... is Avast better than AVG ?? ... I know I will get good advice on this from the users on the this forum and thankyou for your help ...