AVG Anti-Virus - free anti-virus solution
Feb 5th, 2008 by Nim
AVG by Grisoft is a basic no frills freeware anti-virus solution. Some notable features include daily automatic virus definition updates, a basic scan scheduler and email virus protection. AVG is great for a quick and dirty last minute solution. I’ll often bundle it with the PC’s I custom build for friends and family as a starter protection package. In this case something is much better than nothing. AVG offers a shareware version which claims to provide much faster definition updates, but I haven’t experienced any issues with download speed or priority in the freeware version. Try it out and let me know what you think.
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