Since my start in 2008, I've covered a wide variety of topics from space missions to fax service reviews. At PCMag, much of my work focused on security and privacy services, as well as a video game or ...

Android phones are extremely practical devices, properly wielded: You can use them to cut the time required to do many tasks, such as checking and responding to your e-mail. But your phone’s power ...

Speaking of viruses, AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is a great alternative to pay-for virus protection for the home PC. AVG's good; it found infected files on a machine already running ...

Grisoft, makers of the ever-popular AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition for Windows, have announced a new version of the free AVG suite, including the new LinkScanner app to protect users from phishing ...

AVG Technologies has made itself into a familiar name on the Internet by giving users antivirus software at a pretty good price: free. That’s how it got 85 million users. Today, the company is ...

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Fine, you’ve visited some questionable sites. One look at that Avatar sex scene script and whammo, your computer goes all weird. Download AVG Anti-Virus Free 9.0 now—it’s the best web threat ...

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

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

Q. My anti-virus option, AVG Free 7.5, has been pestering me to upgrade to the 8.0 release – which doesn't seem to be free anymore. Am I missing something? About a year and a half ago, Grisoft, the ...