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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
4.5 stars
Pros: Easy installation, easy to use, excellent detection. Received Advanced+ rating from AV-Comparatives (a non-biased independent tester of AV) in their on-demand comparative and a Advanced rating for their proactive test.
Cons: Slow scanning speed.
Summary: The AVG 8.0 free version works great and is a... read more
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
1.0 stars
"You'd be better off without virus protection"
Pros: Installs easily in WinXP and Win2000 (only with NTFS), but that's it.
Cons: Slows system performance, gives allot of false positives and let's in all kind of viruses that never would've happened with ver 7.0 or 7.5.
Summary: I trusted AVG completely until this version..... read more
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
0.5 stars
"It's really Junk, I had to rebuild my machine"
Pros: The pros are that AVG 7.5 was a really strong product.
Cons: But unfortunately they dropped the ball with 8.0
It majorly slows down the machine, I origionally installed AVG because NORTON was so slow, and used a big memory footprint, now this advantage is all but Gone.Summary: All i wanted was the live scanner to work as ... read more
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
1.0 stars
"slashed bandwidth by 80%?!?!"
Pros: uninstalled cleanly
Cons: totally trashed performance on a decent system
Summary: I was pretty shocked at the performance degra... read more
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
1.0 stars
Pros: free, previously great
Cons: avg 8 a disaster
Summary: used avg for several years and worked fine; p... read more
