CNET Editors' review
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.
What's new in this version: Version 7.5.503 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5.503
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it very fast
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"The best I have found..."
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This anti virus is consistently good. It is controllable, it is thorough, it's daily update keeps it current. I have tried many others. The new ones are designed for units with ample system resources, and hog. I now have it now on both of my laptops. Again!!!
I installed it on my lady's desktop, and it found and removed 56 virus strains!!
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"Good, low cost, effective all round protection."
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Daily automatic updates. Thorough scans.
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"My pc has remained virus free for 5 years with AVG free edition."
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Easy to use and very reliable.
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"Excellent for a free product!"
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Reliable and fast working guardian. Fast updates, when working as intended!
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Sometimes declines to go through with automatic updating process, and has to be re-loaded from time to time.
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"good value"
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free and reliable
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"excellent"
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its very fast and powerfull
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"Great free anti virus"
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Fast effective free
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"The Best Free Online Anti Virus"
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It`s free !!
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