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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: May 15, 2009
- 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 19892 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 8.5.336 is a bug fixing release.
What's new in this version:
Version 8.5.336 is a bug fixing release.
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User reviews of AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.5.336
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 19892 votes
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Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.5.336
"I have only used AVG-7-5 and found it very good."
Pros: Found it very easy to use for my security and had no problems with it.
Cons: I would love to update to this new version as my version has stopped.
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Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.5.336
"Has saved me a lot of headaches. Glad to have it."
Pros: My old McAfee product actually froze up my computer when a scan was in progress. With AVG, I don't even know it is running till it tells me its done. It is a great little product, I am glad I ran into it.
Cons: You have to get the paid product for some truly neat toys. Like getting my start menu clear our.
Summary: I like the free product so much I am seriously thinking of upgrading to the paid version.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.5.336
"Superb protection for those who can't afford to pay"
Pros: It's free, reliable and capable, regulary updated, and allows even the clueless and/or lazy among my friends and relatives to have solid basic protection. That saves ME time in reduced "support" calls.
Cons: Not much to dislike- it's a big download- impossible on dialup and some of the updates are big too. Also, it would be nice to schedule scans weekly instead of the default daily- but the pro version is not expensive and worth the $$
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Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.5.336
"It's very functional...remove all viruses others don't."
Pros: Fast; leliable and not heavy to my HD
Cons: I like it all...no regrets.
Summary: not only save my PC but my whole life.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.5.336
Pros: It does real time and a detalailed anti virus
Cons: Nothing at all
Summary: Product is easy to use and has a lot of automatic features leaving the user to have to worry about less things
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