AVG Anti-virus Free 8.0 was released on April 24,2008 and since then it was installed into our system. Compared to AVG Internet Security 8.0 which we reviewed about two months ago, AVG Free 8.0 only provides the anti-virus, anti-spyware and LinkScanner component minus six other major protection components like anti-rootkit and a firewall. You may think that “Hey, cool! LinkScanner in its free version!” but AVG decided to leave out the pro-active safe surfing module. This means that LinkScanner would not protect you from drive-by-download malwares like in its paid version.
