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42 out of 51 people found this review helpful
4 stars
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0.138
Pros: Not as good as some of the paid ones thay are available on the market, but it offers good protection and is free. Not the fastest at scanning your computer for infections, but uses little system resourses which enables you to do other tasks during the scan.
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8 out of 10 people found this review helpful
3 stars
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0.138
Pros: AVG offers good anti-virus/spyware program, but I find it's resource usage overwhelming. The 'avgrsx.exe' process uses 52MB on a P4 processor with just half an hour of usage. It offers a good scanning tool both system and web.
Cons: The Linkscanner "slows" down search engine browsing as it takes 10-20 seconds to scan. AVG 8.0 found false positives in the past, which was the Immunization keys of SpywareBlaster and Spybot-SD.
AVG's LinkScanner is also vulnerable to a DoS attack.
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21 out of 38 people found this review helpful
1 stars
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0.138
Pros: i like that it's free...
Cons: ...but every time a new version comes out, it screws up the one that it is replacing; now, it would even do automatic updates and when i go manually for daily virus updates, it cannot connect and to either 1- check my connection, 2- their server is down, 3- wait until another time...same crap happened w/firefox: the new one screwed up the old one, so i got rid of it.
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7 out of 9 people found this review helpful
2 stars
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0.138
Pros: finnally giving Realtime Protection, at least thats what they say. Didnt block clickster. Still doing better than the last one. Im gonna stick to my Avast, better to me in every way compared to AVG. The people that follow my reviews know that Im not lying.
Cons: Never trusted the software again after it didnt pick up 5 virusses in a friends PC that Avast did pick up. Thats pretty much why I like that prog more. Anyway Later People.
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21 out of 31 people found this review helpful
1 stars
Version: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0.138
Cons: AVAST,AVIRA is much better than this AVG ,for example, detections, detection virus/trojans is very important for your computer,,
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