Grisoft, makers of the ever-popular AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition for Windows, have announced a new version of the free AVG suite, including the new LinkScanner app to protect users from phishing ...

Free antivirus software seems like a great idea, but you always wonder how many corners such a program will cut. For example, AVG AntiVirus for Mac doesn't offer any features outside of malware ...

AVG Technologies has made itself into a familiar name on the Internet by giving users antivirus software at a pretty good price: free. That’s how it got 85 million users. Today, the company is ...

Speaking of viruses, AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is a great alternative to pay-for virus protection for the home PC. AVG's good; it found infected files on a machine already running ...

Though AVG 8.5 Free has a good, straightforward interface and useful blocking of Web-based attacks, its malware blocking is below average. AVG Technology’s https ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

b The two free antivirus programs I've recommended most in the past are Avast Free Edition and AVG Free Edition. Both are solid means of real-time protection (meaning they run continuously on your ...

A: If all you're doing is basic computing like emailing, document creation, surfing the web and such, then the level of protection you receive from a free antivirus program should be enough to keep ...

In 2025, most devices feature built-in antivirus software that scans files you attempt to download, blocking anything it deems suspicious. Antivirus tools also perform automated scans to remove ...

AVG is a perfectly respectable antivirus program. But “œperfectly respectable” isn’t enough to take a high ranking in today’s super-competitive antivirus market. AVG has given its Internet Security ...