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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
- Date added: July 07, 2008
- 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 20497 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This antivirus program offers rock-solid protection. AVG Free provides the bare necessities, including a real-time shield to prevent infections, anti-virus and anti-malware wrapped up in one engine, and a link scanner for Web surfing with care.
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 new interface is much easier to navigate than in previous version, with tabbed navigation on the left assisting users in drilling down to the tools they need.
Though the free version of this program will suffice for average folks, those who demand more control should certainly consider AVG Anti-Virus Professional.
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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 8.0.138 is a maintenance release.
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Version 8.0.138 is a maintenance release.
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User reviews of AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0.138
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44 out of 55 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0.138
Pros: Not as good as some of the paid ones thay are available on the market, but it offers good protection and is free. Not the fastest at scanning your computer for infections, but uses little system resourses which enables you to do other tasks during the scan.
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8 out of 11 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0.138
Pros: AVG offers good anti-virus/spyware program, but I find it's resource usage overwhelming. The 'avgrsx.exe' process uses 52MB on a P4 processor with just half an hour of usage. It offers a good scanning tool both system and web.
Cons: The Linkscanner "slows" down search engine browsing as it takes 10-20 seconds to scan. AVG 8.0 found false positives in the past, which was the Immunization keys of SpywareBlaster and Spybot-SD.
AVG's LinkScanner is also vulnerable to a DoS attack.
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22 out of 40 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0.138
Pros: i like that it's free...
Cons: ...but every time a new version comes out, it screws up the one that it is replacing; now, it would even do automatic updates and when i go manually for daily virus updates, it cannot connect and to either 1- check my connection, 2- their server is down, 3- wait until another time...same crap happened w/firefox: the new one screwed up the old one, so i got rid of it.
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8 out of 10 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0.138
Pros: finnally giving Realtime Protection, at least thats what they say. Didnt block clickster. Still doing better than the last one. Im gonna stick to my Avast, better to me in every way compared to AVG. The people that follow my reviews know that Im not lying.
Cons: Never trusted the software again after it didnt pick up 5 virusses in a friends PC that Avast did pick up. Thats pretty much why I like that prog more. Anyway Later People.
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22 out of 33 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0.138
Cons: AVAST,AVIRA is much better than this AVG ,for example, detections, detection virus/trojans is very important for your computer,,
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