In rebuttal to the two-star rater! (AVG AntiVirus Free Edition)

Name: John R. Dye

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Product:	AVG AntiVirus Free Edition
Date:	31.01.08 (509 review reads)
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Advantages: One of the best two free antivirus applications.

Disadvantages: No technical support on Free version

In response to the review stating AVG Free can't detect common viruses (based on two files detected by Symantec), I can only say this:

I've run McAfee (with its constant system load) for over two years, and it has NEVER detected any bad files. But wanting to get some throughput from my system, I uninstalled McAfee and installed AVG 7.5 Free. During its first run, it detected and eliminated a Trojan file McAfee never saw!

Now I have a Windows XPSP2 system that restarts in five minutes (instead of twelve to fifteen minutes) and an Internet Explorer 7 browser tbat ALMOST loads as fast as Firefox 2!

I'm running separate (also free) spyware, adware, and System Protection applications which total less system load now than McAfee grabbed with its System Protection, antivirus, and a few other things it threw into the mill.

Strangely, McAfee warns that all the stuff I'm running now could conflict with McAfee (lol).

OK -- I've hit my 150 words, so I'll quit now.

Summary: Low system load

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