- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/NT
- Date added: December 02, 2004
- Total Downloads: 227,465,042
- Downloads last week: 1,737,919
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A newer version of AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is available.
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 20497 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This antiviral program offers rock-solid protection for no financial commitment. AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition provides all the necessities, including a tool for scanning your hard drive and e-mail, as well as a real-time shield to prevent infections. By default, the application is set to search for new virus definitions daily, but you always can use the scheduling tool to change this. Should a virus create serious system problems, AVG create a rescue disk to scan your computer in MS-DOS mode. The program doesn't tax your system when scanning or when running in the background and always proved effective in our tests. This app's interface can't be described as beautiful, yet it is mostly simple to navigate. Sure, you can plunk down a lot of cash for an antiviral application with more features, but AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition delivers the goods for free. Watch the CNET video review of AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition:
Publisher's description
From AVG Technologies USA :AVG Free Edition is the well-known antivirus protection tool. AVG Free is available free of charge to home users for the life of the product. Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers. AVG Free is easy to use and will not slow your system down (low system resource requirements). Highlights include automatic update functionality, the AVG Resident Shield, which provides real-time protection as files are opened and programs are run, free Virus Database Updates for the lifetime of the product, and AVG Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files.
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User reviews of AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.289
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 20497 votes
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58 out of 70 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.289
Pros: -IT'S FREE!!!!
-Does it job and does it well
-Automatic Updates
-More effective than norton
-low system usage
Cons: -User interface needs work
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19 out of 29 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.289
"A free Antivirus that works! All computers should have this..."
Pros: This competent virus scanner has just about everything covered an antivirus could ask for.
Cons: Graphic User interface is low, some novice users will get confused with gui,
The program does lack some reporting tools and help files that could make it easier for novice users but all in all is a great product.
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36 out of 45 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.289
Pros: i came over from avg 6.0 pretty good but two much of a hassle trying to update, and a little slow on scanning, now, this version is great, it is by far better the Norton and McAfee, which both are system resource hogs, AVG downloads in a snap, no more email activation just to set up, after which, yes, you want to register it online. AVG deep scans, or fast scans which ever you want, the interface is nice and to the point resulting in ease of preferred set up, it alerts immediately when or if one is found either already on the system or snuck in, great for worms, and malware. unlike the older 6.0 version, this one scans in safe mode and updates are quicker and more automated. it set itself by default to scan silently at windows start up, and again, unlike Norton or McAfee, dose not slow the system to a crawl as it does. Great email protection with Outlook Express, or my choice, Thunderbird by Mozilla. It is a fully functional, COMPLETELY FREE AntiVirus protection, no more having to pay outrageous prices for shotty symantec or mcafee products which, again, slow the system to a crawl, and are both easily disabled by most viril and malware, end resulting in having to uninstall them and reinstall them, IF that works in the first place, and if you choose to switch to lets say Avast!, uninstalling AVG is no problem whatsoever, it leaves peacefully and happily without leaving major remnants of it or taking half your system down with its departure. kudos to Grifsoft and CNET for great products and software. oh and btw, there is online support for the free version of AVG now....
Cons: the deep scans are a little slow and the logs are not all to user friendly if you are not familar with system processes, as it does not provide enough info on where exactly an infection is, and does not let you know when certain files cannot be read or are protected until after the scan is complete.
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15 out of 19 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.289
Pros: *free and works
*virus definition updates frequently
*other components of program updated often
*scans email POP3 access with email scanner
*somewhat quick when performing scanning tests
Cons: *Update tool, sometimes have problems connecting to their server to retrieve updates or even check for updates
*With version 6, it was a little less bloated, and you could change the server url of which to get updates from such as ftp.grisoft.com, grisoft.cz. That function is only available now in the Professional version which costs $.
Really, the only issue I've had is the update tool, although you can perform it manually by downloading the updates from the Grisoft website.
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24 out of 35 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.289
Pros: It cleaned my old windows 98 machine of 13 viruses
It's free
Frequent updates
Cons: Quite muddled interface
Doesn't have a flawless detection rate
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