is avg a decent ant virus download?

Question

i know its free but have been told that its pretty good.anyone tried it?

Answer 1

I have used AVG Anti Virus, Zone Alarm Firewall, Spy-bot Search and Destroy and Ad Aware both spyware killers for years. They are all free for personal use and I have had no trouble with Viruses Trojans etc. AVG does not slow the system down as much as some other products and Zone Alarm allows a lot of personal configuration unlike the Windows Firewall. They can all be downloaded from the following link. http://www.computeractive.co.uk/... On the home page select downloads and then the appropriate category.I also use Windows Defender from the Microsoft site. It is safe to use two anti-spy products but never use more than one A/V as it can cause conflicts. You should run A/V and anti spy weekly. Hope this helps

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Yes. AVG Anti virus and McAfee virus scan Plus 2007 are supposed to help a lot.check out http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-sAFtLsc8erIoh.ENhksr2KyG for more details.

Answer 4

AVG Free is a decent alternative to paid anti-virus softwares. I have been using it at home for years now without a problem. Updating is easy and automatic and doesn't put a strain on your resources. I also use this software at work, implementing it on employee workstations as a way to protect them on the network. I would honestly recommend AVG to anyone.

-Kevin (Jenna's husband)

Answer 5

I see the AVG fanboys and cheerleaders are out in full force again here on Yahoo Answers!

AVG Anti-Virus is crap!

Mostly noobs, the naive, the computer illiterate, and children use AVG Free. People of their ilk love AVG because they say it is easy to use and almost never bothers them with any pop-ups or warnings. Of course AVG Free never bothers them, it hardly ever finds any virus to warn them about!

In test,
http://www.virus.gr/english/fullxml/default.asp?id=82&mnu=82
after test,
http://www.av-comparatives.org/
after test,
http://antivirus.about.com/od/antivirussoftwarereviews/gr/avgfree.htm
after test ,
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=891307&postcount=1,
after test,
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130869-page,1/article.html,
after test,
http://techsupportalert.com/issues/al_current.htm#Section_0,
after test,
http://winnow.oitc.com/AntiVirusPerformance.html
etc. etc. etc, ad nauseam, AVG fares poorly.

AVG has proven itself to be a miserable performer at best. Missing almost 20%, while trying to detect known malware, in some tests. Not to mention almost non-existent heuristic detection and infrequent "once-a day" updates.

There are much better free anti-virus alternatives such as Avria Anti-Vir:
http://www.free-av.com/
and Avast:
http://avast.com/eng/free_software.html

Answer 6

I began using it a few years ago and higley recommend it.
When I hired someone to make a housecall to fix the mess I made of my system, he downloaded AVG for me and said he himself used it. I used the free version.

Answer 7

It is very good. I've been running it for about 5 years and it work just fine.

Answer 8

yeah, its good, i liked it. the only beef i had was that it slowed down my system so much while scanning and start up took a while as well. otherwise, its very thorough for a free program.

Answer 9

NO IT SUCKS U WILL READ HOW GOOD IT IS ..BUT THAT IS NOT THE CASE 80% DETECTION RATE IS NOT VERY GOOD ...TRY AVAST MUCH MUCH BETTER ..http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html..... ALSO U CAN TRY AVIRA ANTI VIRUS VERY GOOD ...

Answer 10

yes it is
check the link below