If you check out virus detection statistics from someone like AV-Test at 
http://www.virusbtn.com/news/2008/09_02, you'll see that AVG, Avast, and 
Avira, the three major free anti-virus applications, are all competitive 
with Norton, McAfee and the other anti-virus applications. 
Differentiators include things like the user interface, performance, 
automatic updates and other bundled utilities. Note that AVG and Avast 
also have suites that you can purchase which bundle other utilities, 
such as firewalls, in with the anti-virus software.

Note that I myself used to use AVG 7.5, but I recently switched to 
Avast. I thought the interface was cleaner and it used less resources 
than AVG.

Lisa McManus wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I am coming in to ask a question about antivirus programs that you pay 
> for such as macaphee, norton, etc compared to something free such as 
> avg.  Are you equally protected with using avg as you would be if you 
> paid for one of the other programs?  Thanks very much in advance. 
>  
> Lisa
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