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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
- Date added: October 30, 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 20496 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 7.5.503 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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Version 7.5.503 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews of AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5.503
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 20496 votes
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7 out of 10 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5.503
Pros: I sensed a had a problem on my system.I did a complete scan with mcafee and a-squared but found nothing.So i decided to download avg switched off the scanner in customise.After did a full scan and low and behold it found a sneaky trojan.This is a good addition to anyones battle tank go get it!.
Cons: Full scan took almost an hour.
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12 out of 13 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5.503
"I like having this software to backup my other Anti-Virus tools,"
Pros: I like it because it worked long enough to get my original Security Suite setup and even more since then as it finds Viruses that are still in my pc after my Security Suite does its thing, and it is free so I don't loose anything on the software.
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3 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5.503
"One of the fastest antivirus on earth!"
Pros: You may download and use this product because:
- offer you free rezident protection
- it's fast (at least faster than the following antivirus i've tested: BitDefender, NOD32, Avira, Avast, Kaspersky and Norton)
- updates are downloaded for free and verry fast
- has a clean and light user interface, verry easy to use and understand
- as a result this is the best antivirus to install for slower computer
- if you install this antivirus before installing Microsoft Office you will notice into the Microsoft Office status bar a message telling you that AVG is scanning for viruses when you open documents :)
- despite the antivirus speed, AVG detects most of the viruses outthere. I am always using 2 or 3 antivirus software on the same computer (one rezident and other 2 for scanning on demand) and from time to time AVG detect some viruses not detected by the others antivirus softwares. Of course there are also situations when the others antivirus softwares detect viruses not detected by AVG... I belive there is no antivirus over there to detect 100% of viruses. If somebody pretend something like this, it's a lie and it's just marketing for selling the product.
- i am using AVG from 3 years and I can tell you improvments comes up fast. This is a solution you can trust long time from now on. Also every new version is better than before and free. In 3 years of using AVG, this antivirus never crushed on my computer. I installed AVG on Windows 2000, XP or XP SP2 always succesfully.
If you don't like this antivirus software but you are looking for another FREE solution you may try one of the following products:
- AVAST
- Avira (search for free version)
- BitDefender 10 free edition (this one does not offer resident protection, only scan on demmand ... very good to use with AVG installed)
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1 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5.503
Pros: installs fine, works fine, updates fine great for free
Cons: scanner : not as good detection rate as some of the other free anti-virus programs
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8 out of 12 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5.503
Pros: I have been using it for the last six or seven months, and my Pc is clean as a whistle. It updates it's self every day. It WORKS FOR ME.
Cons: Nothing
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