AVG Not so Win 7 Beta Safe

  I have to admit I jumped at the chance to install and play around with Windows 7 Beta.  I have been having nothing but issues with my quad core CPU system and Vista.  Probably does not help that it’s a Dell, but hey.

One frustration I had run into was trying to install a few apps I love to use.  Being a good tech/geek I first installed my antivirus/firewall of choice.  I love AVG over many others, especially Norton, for the fact that it is not a recourse HOG.  Game’s and other system hungry apps need all the power they can get and don't do well when a security system is hammering away for no reason every 10 seconds or so.  The install went well, and all seemed to work.  But then I was unable to install Google Chrome and Windows Live Writer. Chrome would install, and a warning came up that it might not be compatible with Win7 but I could get no connection to the outside world once the window was up.  With no warning from the AVG firewall to allow data to pass I thought nothing of it and figured it was just not ready for Win7.

Then this morning as I started my normal routine I fired up Twhirl, my Twitter app of choice on my desktop.  The app loaded but no tweets, nothing, it was dark.  No message from AVG, but it got me thinking.  Headed into the AVG options, disabled the firewall and boom, twhirl worked.  So I scratched my head and started to install Live Writer again. 

Well, I am currently writing this post from within Live Writer on my Windows 7 Beta install.  So you can figure out the issue.

I have disabled the AVG firewall, turned ON the windows firewall for now and will see what else I am able to get running.

So far on a scale from 1 to 10 of satisfaction with Win 7 I am shooting at a 9.  No kidding.  Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit runs like a champ.