News Free antivirus pays off: Avast buys AVG for $1.3 billion The merger will give Avast control of 400 million network "endpoints" running the companies' software By Peter Sayer Jul 7, 2016 5:56 ...

Our AVG Antivirus review finds it to be one of the best antivirus software options for iPhone, with free malware and spyware protection. Available on the App Store, AVG offers downloads for both ...

AVG AntiVirus Free 4.5 Excellent Bottom Line AVG AntiVirus Free offers the same powerful antivirus protection engine used by Avast and Norton, plus many useful bonus features, all at no cost.

Better still, AVG 8.0 adds anti-spyware to the mix, bringing it closer to that other free anti-virus favorite, Avast. (The latter includes rootkit protection as well, which AVG still lacks.) ...

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

AVG don’t point you to the free version in the pop-up. It’s basically a clever marketing tactic, one which I'm sure works quite nicely for AVG. Here’s what the pop-up looks like.