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May 22, 2008
AVG Anti-Virus 8.0 Free review
Of all the free antivirus packages you can download (and there are a few), AVG Anti-Virus Free has to be the doyen of the lot.
And for good reason – it is a pretty good AV package, not the very best perhaps but pretty good. The release of the free version of the current edition of AVG Anti-Virus 8.0 came a couple of months after the commercial version.
See also:
AVG Internet Security 8.0 review
As before, AVG Anti-Virus 8.0 is based on the same core AV technology as the retail version but minus a few bells and whistles, so it is to all intents and purposes the same as the retail product. Which makes it a pretty good AV choice, even ignoring the great price tag.
So what don't you get for your no money? Well, no support for a start, though the support offered by AVG Technologies for paid editions is limited to online only, so maybe this is no great loss.
AVG Anti-Virus Free 8.0 is just an AV product and not an internet security bundle so you won't find a firewall or antispam module, though, as before, the package integrates with your email client to stop mail-borne malware.
However, AVG Anti-Virus 8.0 does include the new LinkScanner feature, this marks dodgy sites returned by a search engine hunt.
Finally, AVG Anti-Virus 8.0 only updates once and not four times daily. You can download AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition from free.grisoft.com.
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User Reviews
Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Reviewed by HelloBanana
Star Rating: 
Duration of ownership: 1 days
Strengths:
Good antivirus/antispyware.
Weaknesses:
No Anti-Rootkit. Limited. Nagware.
Overall Evaluation:
Not bad but should have an anti-rootkit feature.
Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Reviewed by Jim Bell
Star Rating: 
Duration of ownership: 1 months
Strengths:
- 'Set and forget'.
- "same core AV technology as the retail version".
- Works very well on the 3 machines I currently run it off.
- Includes anti-spyware technology.
- Smallish footprint.
Weaknesses:
- Reports of slowdown when using linkscanner.
Overall Evaluation:
Can't really beat this for a free product - clean user interface & not nagging you to upgrade every 5 minutes like some applications.
Monday, 26 May 2008
Reviewed by ProReviewer
Star Rating: 
Duration of ownership: 3 weeks
Strengths:
Works if your system is similar enough to one that avg technologies happened to test with. Else you may be unable to scan or update your virus database.
Weaknesses:
Read forums at http://freeforum.avg.com/ before installing avg free 8.0. Tales of terror from unsuspecting users who have lost all their emails without warning, or can't get it running at all.
Overall Evaluation:
AVG Free 8.0 should not have been released until the dozens of bugs, some of them severely disastrous, have been fixed. The real test of a product comes when experienced customers get their hands on it. Their feed back in the above mentioned forum indicates a high level of risk to any system you might install this product on. Please, go read the comments yourself at http://freeforum.avg.com/
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