Recommendation - Virus Protection
AVG for virus detection
The AVG Anti-virus program is quite excellent.To quote from the site of GRISOFT, which is the company that develops it, its virtues are:
- Rapid virus database updates for the lifetime of the product
- Ease of use
- No system slow down
- Automatic update functionality
- The AVG Resident Shield provides real-time protection as files are opened and programs are run
- The AVG E-mail Scanner protects your e-mail
- The AVG On-Demand Scanner allows you to perform scheduled and manual tests
- The AVG Virus Vault provides for safe isolation and handling of infected files
- And most of all ... great customer satisfaction!
You can download the product free, or upgrade to the latest version for free, using this link: Grisoft Free Advisor.
Select the "Download free version" button. It is in orange about halfway down the page.
This will give you the page where you select which version you want to use. For Windows users, scroll down to the orange area in this page:
Click on the item shown in the illustration above.
Again, good tutorials are provided and you will see that you can download these also from the last two links in the illustration above.
For those of you who are upgrading we have put together some notes on installation. For those who are installing for the first time you should also read through these; they explain one or two things that may not be obvious.
Click here for AskEGM's Update Notes for Grisoft's AVG.