AVG Antivirus 9.0 Free available

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AVG Antivirus Free 9.0 is now available for those that use it.

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All that is built into it so you no longer need a separate rootkit tool seen with the pre-8.x builds. Gee? The 9.0 comes just in time for 7 this week!

I've always used AVG free for home use, but recently have been trying Microsoft Security Essentials.

AVG seems to have got more and more bloated over the years, and it's a refreshing change to use an application that is so lightweight, and seems to do the job very well as well

Not actually! AVG since the 8.0 now includes the optional IE security bar for trojan alerts when some site attempts to stick something on your system! Norton is the one with the "bloatation" rep there.

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With the AVG 8.5 was already on here when going for the MS Essentials tool. There was no clash seeing that added onto the system here with other protections already in use.

The 9.0 release will be going onto the retail 7 once that has arrived and goes on the system as well as the other protections including the MS Essentials which acts more like a scanner/alert mechanism not an antivirus program while there is a containment option. Even when someone passed along a link in the Windows Live Messenger the MS tool prompted as well as the usual warning seen in the messenger window itself showing it covers areas other programs are not able to!

The most likely reason for the continual scan once started in XP there may have been the full system scan setting rather then having it set to the quick scan option. Once you started a scan that was a more thorough system wide scan over all drives if you had more then one hard drive in there.

When I started my new job about 3 months ago, the pcs were using AVG. Mine was sluggish and I knew something was amiss. I installed NOD32 and ran a scan. It found over 80 infected files. I then had to reinstall windows. AVG might be free but you'll never see me using it ever again

Someone probably had AVG disabled from the startup list otherwise it would have flagged them right off. I've been using AVG right along for several years already and it's never missed any virus thrown at it to date!

The IE security toolbar is another plus for AVG there first seen with the 8.0 build as an optional protection for IE users. That will catch bugs any bad site attempts to place on your system with it's own alert system.

But the hard facts are most infections are the result of user/operators ignoring things! I've intentionally let loose a few viruses in order to test how well past free editions of AVG worked as far as detection. AVG found every last file infected in no time with a simple quick scan!