How to Install AVG 2016 without Zen or AVG Protection?

How to download and install AVG without AVGZen or AVG Protection included. When you visit AVG homepage to download its free antivirus you’ll be taken to AVG Free Protection page instead, when you download and install it, AVG Protection (i.e 30-day trial of AVG Internet Security with AVG Zen) will be installed on your computer.

How to install AVG Free Antivirus without Zen

Even choosing ‘Custom installation’ and selecting ‘basic protection’ still installs AVG Zen on user’s computer along with AVG Antivirus Free 2016.

AVG Protection

AVG 2016: How to remove AVG Shredder from the Context Menu?

What happened here is you’ve visited AVG website to download free antivirus and ended up installing AVG IS with AVG Zen, which you’ve not expected or don’t  want. AVG hasn’t got their download pages right, even after 45 days later the release of their 2016 products.

AVG Zen installed

If you’ve installed AVG this way, you can visit Control Panel and uninstall AVG Protection and AVGZen separately, if you face any issues during their’s uninstall, use this tool.

To avoid this in future, visit http://www.avg.com/ww-en/download.prd-afh-free, you’ll find latest offline and online installer links for AVG free.

Venkat Eswarlu

Venkat is an independent technology journalist and the founder of Techdows. He has been covering web browsers, Windows, and software news since 2009. His exclusive scoops on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge features have been cited by Forbes, TechCrunch, Wired, CNET, and other major publications.

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