When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

A: If all you're doing is basic computing like emailing, document creation, surfing the web and such, then the level of protection you receive from a free antivirus program should be enough to keep ...

b The two free antivirus programs I've recommended most in the past are Avast Free Edition and AVG Free Edition. Both are solid means of real-time protection (meaning they run continuously on your ...

Speaking of viruses, AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is a great alternative to pay-for virus protection for the home PC. AVG's good; it found infected files on a machine already running ...

Grisoft, makers of the ever-popular AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition for Windows, have announced a new version of the free AVG suite, including the new LinkScanner app to protect users from phishing ...

Though AVG 8.5 Free has a good, straightforward interface and useful blocking of Web-based attacks, its malware blocking is below average. AVG Technology’s https ...

With some pairings, comparing pricing is tough. What if one product is expensive at the single-license level but handily beats its opponent in pricing for five or 10 licenses? With Avast One Basic and ...

Q: You’ve recommended Avast Free Edition and AVG Free Edition several times in your column in the past, stating they are good free antivirus programs to install. So ...

ZTE is buddying up with security software company AVG to pre-install AVG AntiVirus Pro on all of its new Android tablets and smartphones starting this month, the company announced in a press release.

AVG is a perfectly respectable antivirus program. But “œperfectly respectable” isn’t enough to take a high ranking in today’s super-competitive antivirus market. AVG has given its Internet Security ...