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Review of Grisoft AVG Antivirus 7.0

Friday, January 07, 2005
Author: Richard S. Westmoreland
Permalink: 20050107181823745

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The UK Internet magazine "Webuser", has published a review of the new AVG 7.0 written by Andy Shaw. The biggest point of this article is that AVG is free and has all the simple features that you need to protect your machine adequately. What this review leaves out is benchmarks, comparisons, screenshots, or anything else that would distinguish AVG amongst the other dozen antivirus products available (except again, that it is free). It does link to the Virus Bulletin website pointing out that the previous version of AVG didn't have the highest track record.

For this review, go to:

Webuser: AVG Anti-Virus 7.0 Review

Review of Grisoft AVG Antivirus 7.0
Authored by: mountie on Monday, February 06, 2006

Since using AVG (both paid and free editions) on dozens of systems, we've had zero problems w/ viruses. In one system, when Norton was doing its scan (I had forgotten to remove it!) AVG found 2 backdoor Trojans!

Norton is a resource gobbler; McAfee is a joke (worst infections I have found were with systems running McAfee), with ratings from various security gurus as low as 57%; Panda is expensive and a nuisance to configure (though I haven't used it for a couple of years).

For us, at least, AVG is easily configured, hasn't failed yet, and while we paid for the businesse's use, the free version seems to work just as well for home users.
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