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Looking to get the AVG Professional 7.5 anti virus for free?…Read on…

Computer-Active along with Girsoft,the company behind the highly popular Anti-Virus AVG, is giving away free copy of AVG Anti- Virus 7.5 version, for free. AVG is one of the most popular and successful Anti-Virus softwares on the internet, largely because the free version of the AVG Anti-Virus has a very good track record of PC security.

The AVG Pro version costs $29.95 for a yearly subscription. This news got out on the internet quite soon and a lot of guys started the download. This has slowed down their servers almost to a stand still. The file size is 37 MB, so might take a bit of time as the servers have slowed down, due to multiple simultaneous downloads. Our friends at Ghacks, recommend using a download manager to download it, as if the download breaks in between, you would need to start all over again. They have also mentioned, if you are having a hard time downloading the file, some mirrors have been posted at Cybernet news which is a respected site. These download links however point to RapidShare and MegaUpload, so download it from these links if you are comfortable with these file sharing websites.

I have used AVG pro edition before and currently have the Free version, after the License expired. So now, I can move back to full version, hopefully for one full year or two, but they haven’t mentioned this in the promotion. However when I compared these two editions, I found the Free version quite competitive to the Full version.

A complete comparison between the Professional and Free edition is given below.

AVG Professional VS AVG Free Anti Virus:

When you look at these features carefully, you can see, there isn’t much missing in the Free version and hence its so popular.

Few features that can be deemed as missing are:

1)Technical Support: Free version doesn’t get tech support, but there is enough help in the Forums.

2)Update Servers: Updates for Pro version are though High speed servers, and Free version are left out to non-priority servers. But hey, thats not much of a problem huh!

3)Language Support: Language support for Free version is only in English, again not much of a problem!

4)Windows 64 Support: Support for Windows 64 bit isnt available - Well if you have Windows 64 bit, its better to get the Pro version, especially now that its free!

5)Intrusion detection: Detection of potentially unwanted Programs isn’t there…If we get AVG to do that too, What would the Anti Spyware and Firewalls do…again not much of a disadvantage.

6)Schedules: Scheduled Update and Scanning isnt flexible in free as its in Professional version. Not a big concern.

7) User Defined Tests: Well If you are good enough to understand User defined testing, you would go for the Pro version any way!

8)Resident Shields: AVG Resident shields absence is a bit of concern, but things can be managed, if you don’t frequently visit Warez and Crack sites.

9)Alternate update server: Well we can always update later in Free version. In Pro however, you have alternate download servers. useful in a Virus attack situation. Kinda rare though.

10)Tests results analysis: Professional gives advanced analysis, Free version just gives Basic reports.

I think after comparing and analyzing these features,one can say AVG Free Version is up to the task. The professional version, is for guys who are more in the favor of complete peace of mind.

So would you go for the Professional version, now that its free. Or stick to Good old AVG Free edition?

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