[Pbman]

Is this safe enough?

[Blackmirror]

Its better than no protection .
I use it

[knucklehead]

Yes free AVG is a good antivirus.

Other good free antivirus programs:

Avast 4 Home Edition - http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

Avira Antivir PersonalEdition Classic - http://www.free-av.com/

[golferbob]

i use avg free and comodo free firewall ,no problems

[jonmcc33]

I do not recommend AVG anymore merely because I had a nasty virus eat right through AVG, infecting it and a ton of other processes currently running at the time. I had to wipe the computer. Sorry, but when an AV program gets torn up by a virus I no longer consider it safe to use.

I currently use Avast! 4.7 Home Edition, as mentioned above. It's free to use as well. I replaced AVG on all my systems with Avast! 4.7 actually.

[Elvandil]

AVG is excellent. It is rarely inactivated by viruses (as is Norton, for example), is frequently updated, stable, uses few resources, and has good customer support, even for the free version.

[sup2a]

lol id have to disagree with that my computer starts up rather slowly because of all the programs on startup ... AVG decides to download update either whenever i open the browser or instantly as i log on. At one point i had to leave the computer for 30 mins b4 i could do anything, i upgraded RAM and it will run...just rather slow

[AV1611]

I've used AVG and it's good, but I still prefer the features and detection of Avast.

[Elvandil]

Originally Posted by sup2a

lol id have to disagree with that my computer starts up rather slowly because of all the programs on startup ... AVG decides to download update either whenever i open the browser or instantly as i log on. At one point i had to leave the computer for 30 mins b4 i could do anything, i upgraded RAM and it will run...just rather slow

You could change the settings if it's not the way you want it. Have it update at a certain time, or manually. Have it only start monitoring programs after startup is complete with a delayed service start, or change to shutdown scan and no startup scan. It can't read your mind about how you want it to operate.

[sup2a]

yes sorry something i forgot to mention, i had a few problems with AVG and it couldn't save any changes with settings. I downloaded many times but nothing not only that but it wouldn't find any viruses when there was something there. I downloaded Avast and it had a few hiccups at the start but it is a very nice program and i much prefer it to AVG, or any anti virus so far

[Elvandil]

AVAST is also a good one and just as popular. There are lots of others, too, but I've never tried them. ClamWin?

[Gizzy]

clamwin is nice I had it installed on my pc once before now I have the portable version on one of my flash drives but the detection isn't that great.
and it doesn't have a realtime scanner.