AVG Free Edition Antivirus Review

AVG Antivirus Free Edition is probably the most downloaded virus scanner on the internet. The previous name of the application was Grisoft as product of Grisoft Technologies. The interface of this version of AVG antivirus has just been changed and it is not only simple but also efficient when it comes to the necessary antivirus requirements.
Antispyware and Antirootkit module have been added to the new AVG Antivirus scanning engine. This scanning no longer takes too much time because this free antivirus is now able to use efficiently the hardware and the cores that are now part of computers.

AVG Antivirus – Installation

The installation of AVG Antivirus and the complete downloading of complementary application took less than 10 minutes.

Effectiveness

One of the benefits of the AVG Antivirus Free Editionis that it offers support for Windows Vista and Windows XP. As a result of its recent improvements, it includes multi¬processor support and it is thus able to coexist with a dual core processor; the efficiency of the scanning engine is also one of the best to be found on the market, although it can still be the cause of slow downs and window hanging.

Updates and features

AVG Antivirus 8 Free Edition updates every four hours, but the user can change to the default he is interested in. The user is shown the virus database version and the update schedule: the time of previous and future updates. The interface is similar to other antiviruses in the sense that the information the user needs is always available because all these operations are displayed on main menu screen.
The features of AVG Free Edition include a Web Shield that acts like a firewall and scans standard web ports for possible threats that the user may come across while surfing the internet. A rootkit scanner, an on-access scanner called Resident Shield and a email scanner are also part of the AVG Antivirus.

Technical support

Technical support of AVG Free Antivirus includes FAQs, a Help section included in the application, email and phone support.

AVG antivirus – conclusions

As compared to the old 7.5 version, the new AVG Antivirus 8.0 is definitely improved. The efficiency of the scanning engine is high and the scanning time has also sped up (it may cause occasional slowdowns, though, to the point that the systems becomes unusable for a few seconds). It also has an easy to use interface and an integrated Antispyware and AntiRootkit. All these elements guarantee the safety of your computer system if it has installed AVG antivirus.