

Again, the positive here is little impact on your machine's performance – but at the cost of a longer wait.

That said, if you do decide to manually set a computer-wide scan going then you'll notice this does take a long time to perform. All this is in real-time, running in the background and without draining resources noticeably. But that is perhaps underselling it as that means you get full antivirus protection in place as well as protection from web and email threats. The AVG Antivirus free version gives you, what the company itself calls "basic protection". 12 month plan - $0 per month ($0 total cost) (opens in new tab).At AVG Technologies (opens in new tab) AVG Antivirus review: Free version
