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Originally Posted by Mr. X
Does not negate the truth though.
I work with machines daily that have avg on them, and are massively infected. The only thing avg detects is most tech tools as trojans or malicious scripts. It's inability differ between a U-packed EXE (the HSPL) and a malicious bit of code is just another note of its poor ability to function as a useful antivirus.
As the old adage goes, you get what you pay for.
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Not sure if your truth is THE truth. I have been using the paid AVG for several years. Not one virus or malware problem in all that time and not a single false-positive, either. AVG is always near the top in ratings from places like C-Net and tech magazines. I used to have Zone Alarm, another good AV program and firewall, but had to ditch it when I went to 64-bit Windows and they didn't support it. I don't know about the free AVG version, but the paid version has worked excellently for me and has a noticeably smaller resource and performance hit than programs like Norton or McAfee.