Best free utility

Winner: AVG Anti Virus V7 Free Edition. http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php

Don’t let the fact that this product is free lead you to believe that it is a lesser product.

AVG ranks right up there with the best anti-virus products available. It has first rate detection capabilities, on demand scanning, a resident scanning monitor, email scanning, automatic updates and excellent handling of detected viruses.

On top of these features, AVG AV consumes relatively few of your valuable system resources. For example, it runs with less than half the CPU processing requirement of Norton AV 2004 and takes up less memory space as well.

The "free version" is free for home use by a single user. It is full-featured apart from a more basic interface and the disabling of some advanced technical features.

AVG is to be congratulated for providing a product of this quality for free. The cumulative benefit they have bestowed on the Internet community is immeasurable.

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