Anti-virus Programs: The Best One is Free

If you're like most people, you might be getting a little tired of having to pay more and more

for a good anti-virus program. The prices for the most popular name brand products have

continued to rise along with everything else. This has forced a lot of people to shop around and research some of the free anti-virus products available on the internet. Some of the

name brand products have a lot of features and use a lot of computer resources. (Sometimes these programs are referred to as being "Bloated" because they have so many features and are running so many different programs in the background all the time). This can actually result in your computer running slower. But, most of the time, I just want my anti-virus program to do one thing. Detect and get rid of viruses and other assorted bad guys.

While there is no perfect anti-virus program, some are better than others.

The program that I recommend is called "AVG Free edition". It was created by a company

called Grisoft. It is, in my opinion, the best free anti-virus software on the market. You can

download a copy at the Grisoft website or at

AVG does the one thing it was designed to do. Detect and get rid of viruses and other bad guys. (I like that)! It runs clean on your system and does not slow down your computer(it isn't

bloated). I like that too! You get automatic updates with AVG.

The program has a user friendly setup and interface. You can select when you want to check

for updates and install them.

I have used this program for several years now and it has always done the job for me. It has even detected and gotten rid of some things that the popular brand names didn't even find.

You can have more than one anti-virus program on your computer at the same time. Just be sure to disable one of them while you're using the other so that they don't interfere with each other. For example, when I first came across AVG, and I wanted to see if it was a good program to use, I would disable whatever anti-virus program I was using at the time and try AVG for a while. After a while, when I saw how great it worked, I uninstalled the other program from my system. Now, AVG is the only one I use and the only one I recommend.

So, if you're tired of paying for anti-virus protection, give AVG Free edition a try. I think you'll like it a lot.

Charles Garnett is an A+ Certified computer repair technician and the author of "7 Simple and

Easy things You can do to Keep Your Computer running fast, clean, and efficient-All The Time. And it Won't Cost You a Single Dime!"

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