Tuesday, April 17, 2007

AVG Free Software

I have been using AVG Free Anti-Virus software on my primary home computer for over a year now and have been thoroughly impressed. Lots of features (auto downloads of updates, scheduling feature to run your scans when you're sleeping, etc.) and they don't charge a dime. Of course they offer full featured products for a fee, but I haven't found the need to upgrade to them yet.

They also offer free spamware and rootkit prevention/removal software.

All of these free downloads can be found here.

By the way, since I have grown tired of one well-known commercial anti-virus program (never-ending annoying popups, confusing user interface, etc.) I recently removed it from both my wife's laptop and my parents' desktop and replaced it with AVG products.

By another way, I downloaded and installed this software on my family's machines using LogMeIn Free software that I reviewed here.