Reviews of AVG Anti-Virus Free

1. 
   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/
2. 
   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
3. 
   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
4. 
   holy1661

   Reviewing 2012 12.0.1901 (Dec 28, 2011)

   First off, I would not run any computer without antivirus installed. While virus are not as popular as they used to be, they are still out there waiting.
   Any mention of how much slower they make your computer is ill informed at this point. The slow down is so negligible, nobody even bothers to do a benchmark while disabling antivirus.
   The real issue at this point is spyware, and will do as much or more damage than a virus (the fake Antivirus 2012 for example). It is important to also install at least the free Super-Antispyware for example. AVG and Avast do not block spyware, although they both mention that they do.
   With both AV and Antispyware running at least you are almost protected.
   AVG is good, and you can look here for real world protection results: http://chart.av-comparatives.org/chart2.php. Although I have been using Avast, I may switch back to AVG now that I see this chart...
   I would give AVG a five if it blocked rootkit spyware's like AV2012, for that you have to use Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware to get rid of it.
   
   Also: get it from http://www.avg.com/us-en/free-antivirus-download
5. 
   netean

   Reviewing 2012 12.0.1901 (Dec 28, 2011)

   Such as it is, it;'s ok. But in my honest opinion I think all of these virus scanners are somewhat pointless. I've run without antivirus for nearly 2 years, the only virus I did get was ironically when I was had some antirvuris installed that I was evaluating. neither it nor the other 3 anti virus apps I tried saw it let alone fixed it. They seem to spend more time bringing up false positives and stopping advertising cookies than anything useful.
   I'll go back to running withuot anti virus and monitoring things myself. AVg just slows you machine down without actually doing much as far I can see.

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??