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Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0.1
"AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition"
Pros: Well all know that AVG is probably the most popular anti-virus in the whole world with over 1000000 downloads each week. It has an elegant, easy to use and user friendly interface and detects almost everything..however...
Cons: AVG has a serious problem. It appears that the auto-protect feature which comes with all the other anti-viruses is actually missing here!! So, What is the point of having an anti-virus that doesn't detect or fix anything until you start it's anti-virus scan manually?
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i feel better knowing it is avg's error not mine. i thought i had neglected to do sosmething was why my compter kept saying it might not be protected after i downloaded avg anti-virus
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Ditto to the other two replys. Resident Shield is the real time protection you are speaking of and it is turned on by default. Actually in ver 8 it is now much easier to turn it off (for trouble shooting or install other apps, etc.) than in previous versions.
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Resident Shield and email scanner are both running by default, in the free home edition. This is the "live" real time protection you need.
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In AVG, it is called 'Resident Shield'. So definitely is there!
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