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You saw it here first - now it's for real! Let's hope the new owners' can get rid of the frauds, bugs and other unwanted things. I still won't be using it - "VOIPBUSTER" (Google it) is still better...at least for now! ********* September 1, 2009 7:08 AM PDT Sold! eBay jettisons Skype in $2 billion deal by Steven Musil and Jonathan Skillings Font size Print E-mail Share ...

For many years I've used, and been very happy with a free programme "AVG" anti-virus. We've all got to have one, because of those little people with no intelligence, except of a destructive nature, and their little bugs (which is why those people are called "buggers"). I searched for, and thought I'd found, the best and LEAST intrusive of the free programmes, with AVG Free . Image by linkalicante via Flickr Well - for years I had, but just recently, I've been having rather large problems with this programme, slowing down the PC , signalling updates as "n/a" (if it updated at all), wild starting up of the "Scan" (which on my PC takes up to 6 hours!) - ignoring completely my setting of "disable this task" - no reaction to the command of "stop all scans" and generally "buggering" me about! I'd also noticed a different approach from AVG Free, a more agressive form of marketing , to get you to buy the...