Has anyone tried AVG free anti-virus software? Is it safe to use and will it provide good protection?

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Has anyone tried AVG free anti-virus software? Is it safe to use and will it provide good protection?

Answer 1

Lets face it. You usually get what you pay for.There are some rather fine Freeware utilities out there but none of them are as strong as the ones you pay for. Of the pay ones Norton / Symantec is almost as big a joke as McAffee.Which is just marginally better than the c**p that microsoft packs with windows. Google the anti virus certifying bodies that rate these companies. Use what the pros use.There are a couple of good Free online scans to verify the presence of an intrusion. Trend micro Housecall and Kaspersky. Housecall will also remove malware while Kaspersky offers a Free 30day FULL VERSION trial. The proper way to remove malware is to turn off your system restore. (malware hides a copy of itself there quite often) Then re boot into safe mode. (keep pressing f8 when you power up and select safe mode) Then run your anti virus / anti spyware-trojan utilities. Then re-boot with your internet connection disabled and re-run your scans. then turn your restore back on and set a new restore point. Good luck and best wishes.

http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner

http://usa.kaspersky.com/trials/home-use...

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

http://us.trendmicro.com/us/products/ind...

http://www.eset.com/smartsecurity/

http://www.eset.com/download/

http://www.consumercompare.org/internet_...

And finally. Here is a review by PC Authority magazine of 47 products rated bu price, performance,ease of use, etc.

http://www.pcauthority.com.au/Search/Def...

Answer 2

it's alright it will do the job if you can afford to buy one.

Answer 3

Good for a free product

Answer 4

its really good, especially for a free anti virus program

its also safe

Answer 5

I have tried AVG.It is a very good and safe software to use.It does provide very good protection.

Answer 6

It works great, but don't install the "safe search" feature.  If you install it, every link on every page gets downloaded and scanned for viruses.  (so many pages if you do a Google search) which really slows down your internet connection!