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3 out of 6 people found this review helpful
4 stars
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
4 stars
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
4 stars
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
5 stars
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
3 stars
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. read more
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