Compared to Norton or McAfree i would take every single one of them.
But compared to other free security solutions thats another story.
AVG Free anti-virus does not have the best detection system, nor does it remove infections the best.
I personally believe that for the average home user AVG is fine, just set it and forget it.
But the problem is that its the home users we need to protect the most and by telling them to just go and download AVG free anti-virus is just making the problem worse. You can install all the security software/hardware you like, but no matter how easy you make it for an average home user to run security software they are still going to be misguided and think they are secure when in fact it could be the complete opposite.
The best anti-virus/spy ware/malware isn't a software package, nor is it a piece of hardware, though these do improve your security, they do not form a protective 'bubble' for your computer. You need to teach the users, show them just how their computer gets infected, how data can be easily captured/delete.
If you teach users how it happens they learn the ways to avoid it. Exactly what happened in one of my security seminars.
I held this one seminar where after 3 lectures i found that they were all of the opinion that if they go out and get *insert security package here* then they are fine and they don't need to worry.
But before my next lecture i setup a simple network, that simulated the internet, a home users PC a firewall and a printer.
The PC was running Norton 2005 (this was in 2005), and also was set up behind a NAT router with inbuilt firewall.
At the start of the lecture i asked everyone in the class if they thought the system was secure and if so, why.
90% of the class said it was secure and their reasons were all the same, it had a firewall and anti virus software.
I then asked one of the student to go start up the computer and print out a few copies of the class notes i had on a USB thumb drive.
This was done, and then afterwards i asked the student why he did what i told him to do. He was rather confused, i then sat at the computer that was the Internet simulation computer and turned off the computer that was simulating being the home users PC completely bypassing the security systems that were implemented.
See no matter how much you spend or don't spend on a software package, it can be compromised by users who are oblivious to what could happen, imagine what companies have to go through when they set up a Computer system.
I suggest you research some of the techniques that these people who write virus/Trojans/worms/spy ware use.
You cant protect yourself from something you know nothing or little about. After all, if you know how something works, you also know how it doesn't work and that is the key to security.
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