Reviews of AVG Anti-Virus Free

1. 
   Music4Ever

   Reviewing 2012 12.0 Build 2126a4890 (Mar 27, 2012)

   Sig based AV's are a thing of the past.
2. 
   marym

   Reviewing 2012 12.0 Build 1913a4770 (Mar 2, 2012)

   I have been trying to install AVG 2012 internet security. With several useless calls to their "HELP" desk the program will not install despite the fact that AVG 2010 successfully installed and worked.
   
   I have been their customer since 2008. (sigh) All that is over with! Good-bye AVG. It was nice knowing you.
3. 
   some guy

   Reviewing 2012 12.0 Build 1913a4770 (Jan 31, 2012)

   all the good reviews you see are either by fools or the program developers .
   Far behind the others in a independent test
   http://www.av-comparatives.org/
4. 
   DarrenH

   Reviewing 2012 12.0.1901 (Jan 25, 2012)

   This is one of the best rated programs. Personally I've used few antivirus programs but this version of AVG Anti-Virus is one of the most powerful antivirus of the moment. You can read more about it here: http://www.freevirusprotections.net/
   http://www.freevirusprot...virus-free-edition.html
5. 
   jayk

   Reviewing 2012 12.0.1901 (Jan 19, 2012)

   AVG is good since it is free. But it gives so many alerts without telling you what to do about it. For example I get a pop up each time I visit practically any site it gives three ominous options - "Add to exceptions" (what if it is dangerous, you decide - how would I know), "Go to file" (what will I do going to the file) or "Ignore the threat" (Ignore! and...then what? Will it not sit on my computer for ever?)
   
   I had used Avast - it was more "silent" except for the loud virus updation notification ( you can turn it off). Not sure whether the silence is because it manages everything or is it because it could not find anything.
   
   However avg comes with a few stuff like registry cleaner, duplicate finder etc , which are very good. I have removed my other dupe finders like auslogistics etc, cos avg's is more user friendly and less confusing. I hope they did the same when they give an alert. Had it not been for this alert thing I would have rated avg above 4.5. Now its 3

Discuss AVG Anti-Virus Free

1. Aug 16, 2011 - 11:17 PM
   lesanshar

   Dear AVG, i had installed the avg free antivirus on 21 july 2011. runs smoothly. but 2nd august midnight (12.15am of 3rd august) suddenly i lost all the datas (word, excel, powerpoint, pdf and jpeg files) without my knowledge from my desktop (HP laptop). I tried to recover those files using various recovery file softwares. I got some of the word and excel files with same file names. I tried to open those files but it showing that the files was corrupted or the files showing some unreadble fonts. Is there any source to recover those files. In some of the recovered word files showing some words containing avg and id numbers are there. I am having a doubt that avg free antivirus hidden or corrupt those files? Please help me
2. Nov 2, 2009 - 6:07 AM
   Traveller29

   Lots of problems with AVG Free 9.0698a1730! On four machines and all have started to run _very_ slowly and the main hard drives are constantly running? Reverted to Free 8.5 and all is well now!
   
   Solutions??