AVG has been shown to be one of the greatest free virus removal programs available to this date. Whether you are shopping around for a retail version of antivirus or you know what you are doing around a computer and think you can be trusted with the free version, AVG performs well against the competition. You should still exercise caution when browsing the internet. AVG cannot prevent every virus from getting on your computer. Even though AVG is ranked fairly well against the competition, that doesn’t mean it is amazing and will prevent everything. In the following article, I will discuss why we feel AVG is among the best free virus removal programs, and what makes people want to pay for the retail version.
If you compare AVG to a majority of the other antivirus software, AVG comes out being the winner in the amount of computer resources it uses. AVG needs only a Pentium 1 with 300MHz in order to run. This means it could run on a computer built in 1998 and still be fine. You would be hard pressed to run McAfee or Norton since both take 5 times the hard drive space and the RAM needed to run them. Norton Antivirus recommends 512MB in order to run while AVG a lowly 128MB recommended. As you can see there is a vast difference and I believe you will notice a vast difference when you begin to run AVG if you are converting from either Norton or McAfee.
Secondly, AVG has an awesome detection rate. When it comes to viruses AVG has a 93% detection rate. Im sure the free version has a little less and the retail version of AVG has more but even so its pretty good at finding basically anything, even things that Norton and McAfee will miss.
Thirdly, and the best fact about AVG is that it’s FREE! AVG free has been shown to beat many retail antivirus programs as well as many other free ones. So it would seem that the retail version of AVG should be great and well it is. It beats its own free version by increasing speed and efficiency plus a few more features. Now, you don’t necessarily need the retail version if you know your way around a computer. You can just combine it with Spybot or Malwarebytes Anti Malware and be fine! If you aren’t so good with computers I would recommend the retail version. It is much nicer to have protection than to get a hacker stealing your identity!
Every program has its problems and AVG is a program so it’s going to have issues. When it comes to AVG free the problem are the programs that it has a conflict with. These programs are: StumbleUpon toolbar, System Protect, Contafiscal 2000, Webroot SpySweeper, ICQ Toolbar, Session Manager 0.6.1.13 add-on and, Dell Network Assistant. A majority of you will not have this but I figured it would be helpful to those of you who did.
In closing, AVG is great software for the price since it is free and I will always highly recommend it, unless something better shows up for the price. It is lighter than any other antivirus, detects more viruses than other software, it’s FREE, and there are very few programs that it has an issue with. If you are in the market for a great edition to your computer security arsenal then I highly recommend AVG Free. If you don’t consider yourself computer savvy and want to keep your money in your bank account and not share your passwords with everyone else I would recommend buying the retail version of AVG antivirus.
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