- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
- Date added: September 01, 2008
- Total Downloads: 227,465,042
- Downloads last week: 1,737,919
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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 20276 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on November 08, 2008
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 8.0.169 is a maintenance release.
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Version 8.0.169 is a maintenance release.
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User reviews of AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0.169
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 20276 votes
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3 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0.169
Pros: EAsy to use and doesn't need a lot of attention
Cons: Not sure other than the length of free edition
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3 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0.169
"very easy to use and reliable"
Pros: Very good for a free antivirus. It has a good detection rate, it helped me many times.
I would recommend it to anyoneCons: nothing yet
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4 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0.169
Pros: Good (not great) detection
Regular updatesCons: No proactive detection
Bloated
Lacks an antirootkit component -
5 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0.169
Pros: Its Free and can detect threats and it can protect itself from threats.
Cons: A little slow, had an error at first when updating, but found workaround.
Summary: Best free anti-virus software out there. And it saved my parents PC..this PC already has McAfee on it but somehow got a virus still. I performed a Mcafee scan but didnt detect anything, i did an update but failed everytime. I couldnt figure out what... read more >>
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8 out of 11 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0.169
"Resource hog, but works good"
Pros: It's a great free one out there. Update a lot, that a great sign
Cons: Version 8 is a resource hog. It also require you to scan when booting up. For those 2 reason.
Summary: If you want a free one it's a great program. But if your computer is running slow already, it will slow down even more. If I had choice between Norton or this. I would take this hands down.
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