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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: March 13, 2008
- 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 19940 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 7.5.519 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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Version 7.5.519 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews of AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5.519
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 19940 votes
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5 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5.519
"NO SUPPORT, FUNCTIONS INACTIVE"
Pros: For a Free AntiVirus it is ok, but way too overrated, as newbies seem to love it. There are much better ones.
Cons: The "Heal" function does not work on the Free version, which I think is pointless in any AntiVirus, since that is precisely the whole point. The only support offered is their forum and even when you submit your query to the right forum, the moderator constantly interferes with it and it never gets answered.
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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5.519
Pros: Works better that store bought Virus programs
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6 out of 12 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5.519
"AVG Anti-Virus is a great virus protection program."
Pros: It does a great job at protectioning your computer against virus. The most wonderful thing about AVG is that it is free and updated daily.
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5 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5.519
"One of the best programs available"
Pros: Daily updates of the latest anti-virus items. No more waiting a month for some lazy programmers to find and avoid the latest virus & then send it to you. Yes, it takes a minute to update but definitely worth it & comforting too. And for home use, it's free
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5 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5.519
Pros: The automatic feature makes it easy not to worry about when to check my system.
Cons: If you're running a program and AVG starts up, you'll probably have to restart whatever program you're working on. Perhaps this happens only on my machine, and it's more of a nusance than anything else, but it keeps me from giving it the full 5 stars.
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