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The installation process wasn’t that bad as the 6MB installer automatically downloads and installs the latest version of program and definition on your computer. Most of the advanced protection features that is taking most of the space on the GUI are unavailable in the free version.

The user interface looks a bit dated and not very user friendly at first as we had to look a bit harder to find the button to manually check for definition updates. The free version of Ad-Aware uses the Vipre engine but weirdly Ad-Aware Total Security uses G Data’s engine. We were eager to test Ad-Aware Free Antivirus+ because it used to be a very good anti-spyware program that in recent years has turned into a full fledged antivirus program and taking the third spot. Pay attention during install as the AVG Security Toolbar will install by default.

They do have the full distributable setup file buried somewhere deep in their website. After installation, there’s another 60MB of definition file to download. Firstly we need to download a small 4MB web installer to download the full installation file. We were quite annoyed by the whole installation process because it takes 3 steps to get it completely installed and updated. Surprisingly phone support is available to free users but only for certain countries such as US and UK. The anti-spam, firewall and performance fix functions are excluded from the free version. It helps protect your computer from viruses, malicious emails, web-based attacks, and identity theft. AVG has an updated graphical user interface to match the Windows 8 modern UI.

The free version of AVG AntiVirus used to be the most popular and well known free antivirus software and they are currently at the second spot after avast! Free Antivirus. After extensive research, we have come up with an up-to-date comprehensive list of free anti-virus programs for your convenience. However, there is also a wealth of anti-virus software offered for free with the catch of disabling some of the extra defense system such as firewall, behavior blocking and also only allowing you to use it for personal home use only. With so many brands around and they all claim to be have the best detection and lightest in system resource, it is certainly not easy determining which is really the best.Īs for home users, most antivirus companies also offers a cheaper version that works on Windows operating system and requires an annual subscription. A computer virus can be programmed to do anything such as stealing sensitive information, locking up or slowing down the computer, data loss through corruption or deletion, and etc. Billions of dollars are spent every year on antivirus software alone by enterprise because they know that computer virus can cause a lot of down time and making the company lose money.