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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: February 28, 2007
- Total Downloads: 227,465,042
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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 19892 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.
Version 7.5 improves virus detection based on better heuristics and NTFS data streams scanning, features smaller installation and update files, and improves user interface.
What's new in this version:
Version 7.5 includes unspecified changes and fixes.
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User reviews of AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 19892 votes
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75 out of 101 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5
"After Years Of Investigation , The conclusion Is ....AVG Is The Best."
Pros: I have been Using AVG for several years now . I used Norton for 1 year , Mcafee for 6 months , Pc micro cillian For 3 months and many more anti viruses for around the same time. My conclusion tells me that AVG is generally the best. Its quite surprising because its a free program. But with many years of investigating on anti virus programs, AVG really is the best for several reasons. Firstly its scanning is quick compared with ones like Norton and Mcafee , Secondly it updates every day which only takes a few seconds , thirdly its not the most popular anti virus. Unlike Norton which everyone knows of , AVG is less popular , which IS AN ADVANTAGE.your probably wondering , that it doesn't make sense because popular stuff are meant to be good , thats why there popular ...right? but no that not right and heres why. Nobody wants a program that all hackers and malicious software makers can get around. Because obviously all the hackers know exactly how to get around the popular programs , they all target the popular programs so that they get a better hit. So what im saying is DONT USE ANY POPULAR PROGRAM. Some programs im talking about are programs like IE 7 , Microsoft office , windows defender ( which isn't too popular yet but will be very soon , because of vista. and many more. There are always alternatives to popular programs . And sometimes the not so popular programs are much better. Programs like Microsoft office isn't the best office suite. Try Open office. Another one of my favorites. Anyway thats a little off topic. So because of popularity , Money , Speed , Updates and Scanning Engine AVG antivirus is the way to go for your antivirus program. However a little note. If in the near future AVG does gain huge amounts of popularity ( which i think i will do so ) THEN and ONLY THEN will i not recommend the program. Because of the reasons i stated for Norton. For Now , AVG is Number 1.
Cons: THIS ANTI VIRUS IS NOT INTENDED FOR ANY BUSINESS OR COMPUTERS WITH EXTREMELY SENSITIVE DATA. You will need a more Robust anti virus system suite like Bit defender. This anti virus is best for home use.
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7 out of 12 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5
Pros: This is the greatest, always-up-to-date, spiffy virus scanner. Simply enough, it finds viruses, and it finds them good. I had a major keylogger, and this got rid of it all.
Has great features also. Such as scheduled daily scans, automatic update manager, "virus vault" to keep viruses in a safe place and so they can be identified if they happen to reappear, e-mail scanner that scans ALL incoming AND outgoing e-mails, and more. But the most important thing is, they all work.
Cons: I do believe that since this is the free version that you can't schedule new tasks, you can only edit the 1 you get.
And I'm not sure if this is a setting, because I haven't found it yet, but the date is a little off.. apparently my last scan was 7/15/2007...
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48 out of 64 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5
"The Absolute BEST Antivirus EVERRRRRR"
Pros: I love everyting about this antivirus. It is free, it is easy to setup, it can be scheduled to scan daily or other times too, it consumes very little resources. It also automatically updates itself one or more times daily. I'm in the computer repair business and have found that this free antivirus is not only the easiest to setup but it finds and removes all viruses without err.
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57 out of 78 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5
Pros: they keep the updates up better then most other scanners and it wont hogg your system!
Cons: nothing !
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28 out of 38 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5
Pros: I love the simple interface, not bloated like symantec or any other RAM hogging programs. It's simple and it get's the job done, I think I might even buy the pro version. I think I'll try the anti-spyware program made by AVG because this program is so nice.
Cons: They block a tiny bit of functionality for the free version, but I don't see any problem with that.
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