AVG AntiVirus Free

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Product

AVG AntiVirus Free is a free antivirus for individual users that provides real-time protection against viruses, malware, ransomware and online scams. Supported platforms are Android, macOS and Windows. Among the capabilities recorded for it are behavioral detection, email protection, heuristic detection and malware detection. Its record also notes ransomware protection and web protection. It is aimed at Consumer buyers.

Current Version: 26.10.11201.3863
Product Page: avg.com/…/free-antivirus-download
Market: Consumer
Licence: Free
Price: Free
Record Created: 2026-08-20
Last Updated: 2026-10-28

Vendor

AVG was founded in 1991 in Brno, then Czechoslovakia, by Tomáš Hofer and Jan Gritzbach as Grisoft. The brand is an abbreviation of its first product, Anti-Virus Guard, released in 1992; the company took the product's name in 2008 and listed in New York in 2012. It has not been independent since 2016, when Avast — another Czech antivirus company, 200 kilometres away in Prague — bought it for 1.3 billion dollars. Avast in turn merged with NortonLifeLock in 2022 to form Gen Digital, so AVG, Avast and Norton are today three brands of one American-listed company, all three of which are listed separately in this index. The products keep the AVG name: AVG AntiVirus FREE, AVG Internet Security and AVG Ultimate for households, with AVG AntiVirus for Android and macOS editions, and AVG AntiVirus Business Edition and AVG Internet Security Business Edition for small organisations. The free tier is the one most people meet, and it is a full scanner rather than a trial. Since the Avast acquisition the two brands have shared a detection engine, so their laboratory results tend to track each other closely — worth knowing before reading an AVG score and an Avast score as two independent opinions. Vendor page →

Website: avg.com
Country: Czechia
Headquarters: Brno, Czechia
Year Established: 1991
Customers: Not known
Users: 200M users
Revenue: ≈ $77.0M (2016)

Platforms

iOS	not supported
macOS	native
Windows	native

Target Market

Consumer primary

Capabilities

Pricing

Plan	Licence	Priced per	Billed	Price
Summary	Free	not stated	no recurring charge	Free

Versions

26.10.11201.3863Windows

The newest release each source names per platform, not every release the vendor has shipped. A release date is shown only where one is recorded.

Independent Tests

At a glance — latest result per lab test

AV-Comparatives Real-World Protection TestAdvanced+

Tested: Windows2026-06-15lab report ↗

AV-Comparatives Malware Protection TestAdvanced

Tested: Windows2026-10-15lab report ↗

AV-Comparatives Performance TestAdvanced+

Tested: Windows2026-10-20lab report ↗

AV-TEST Antivirus Test

Tested: Windowslab report ↗

Each bar is one lab’s own figure on that lab’s own scale. Labs test different models at different times, so the figures are not combined into one score.

All results

AV-Comparatives Real-World Protection TestAV-Comparatives Real-World Protection Test — February–May 20262026-06-15

Advanced+Protection Rate: 99.3%

AV-Comparatives Real-World Protection TestAV-Comparatives Real-World Protection Test — July–October 20252025-11-17

Advanced+Protection Rate: 100%False Positives: 8

AV-Comparatives Malware Protection TestAV-Comparatives Malware Protection Test — March 20262026-04-15

Offline Detection Rate: 96.3%Online Detection Rate: 98.7%Online Protection Rate: 99.97%False Positives: 9

AV-Comparatives Malware Protection TestAV-Comparatives Malware Protection Test — September 20252025-10-15

Offline Detection Rate: 97.4%Online Detection Rate: 98.9%Online Protection Rate: 99.98%False Positives: 8

AV-Comparatives Malware Protection TestAV-Comparatives Malware Protection Test — September 20262026-10-15

AdvancedOffline Detection Rate: 95.4%Online Detection Rate: 98.3%Online Protection Rate: 99.96%False Positives: 15

AV-Comparatives Performance TestAV-Comparatives Performance Test — April 20262026-04-22

Impact Score: 5.5AV-Comparatives Score: 90

AV-Comparatives Performance TestAV-Comparatives Performance Test — September 20252025-10-15

Impact Score: 3.9AV-Comparatives Score: 90

AV-Comparatives Performance TestAntivirus Performance Test September 20262026-10-20

Advanced+Impact Score: 5.3AV-Comparatives Score: 90