- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
- Date added: September 25, 2007
- Total Downloads: 227,465,042
- Downloads last week: 1,737,919
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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 creates 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.
The 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.
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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 7.5.488 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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Version 7.5.488 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews of AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5.488
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 20497 votes
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6 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5.488
Pros: Nice GUI in this version, but the scanning took very long, but it does not lag and runs on low memory
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3 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5.488
Pros: Very light memory footprint, no discernible slowdown. Reliable, regular, fast updates. Scores well (Advanced+) on AVComparatives. Scanning a little slow, but easy to schedule, and when running in background doesn't slow things down much. Neat, easy to use interface. Integrates fully with Windows Security Center.
Cons: No built-in rootkit scanning - for this you need the (also free) AVG Anti-Rootkit app.
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11 out of 13 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5.488
"A free virus software that does a great job at protecting your computer!"
Pros: AVG Anti-Virus is wonderful for a free edition. I highly recommend it to everyone who enjoy free software protection without paying the the high price for it.
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6 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5.488
"Works well, but.............."
Pros: More reliable than Avast, as at least it doesn't have some files missing as Avast does (scan with HijackThis).
Cons: NO CUSTOMER SUPPORT * FORUMS ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO REGISTER WITH (major probs there) * "SLOWS DOWN YOUR COMPUTER `BIG TIME', SO BEST LEAVE TO SCAN WHILE YOU ARE OUT FOR ABOUT 2-3 HOURS" * EXTREMELY SLOW. "Facts", so don't be confused by other 2 misguided reviewers.
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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5.488
"causes vista to bluscreen when u install it so its unusable"
Pros: free, free forums ,popular so lots of reviews on download..though most are from the pro avast commumity so not much help...everyone do better reviews from now.explain what u have to do to use it and other software to people new to something..reviews that say pros..its good, cons none are useless
Cons: it causes bluescreens as u install it on vista ultimate says driver irql not less or equal fwpkc1nt.sys google finds nothing on this file, only way to use pc again is to remove avg, if avg dont solve this within next 48hrs im using other companys antivirus after years of using avg..this is very bad problem
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