A PC engineer said that while AVG had been a very good free anti-virus program, he was now seeing PCs on which AVG was correctly installed, used and updated, but which had, nonetheless, been infected by viruses. He recommended that I switch to Avast! instead.
Jo Lynch
AVG has become popular over the past few years, and virus writers will often try to disable or evade widely used programs. That's why it's a good idea to run secondary checks either online or by using an alternative program from time to time.
Fortunately there are at least three good free programs: AVG, Avast!, and Avira AntiVir. (Comodo is another option, but I have not tried it.) Nowadays, some antivirus programs insist on being the only one installed. If so, turn it off and run Kaspersky's free standalone Virus Removal Tool as a double-check. This is more comprehensive than Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool.
