Optimize a Computer: Install AVG Freeware

Video Transcript

"In this segment we are going to take care of some fear. The fear factor is an unprotected computer in cyberspace so the first thing we want to do is we want to get an antivirus program going and AVG is an excellent antivirus program freeware and you can always choose to update if you like it up to the professional version but there is no limit on the freeware so use it. Thefirst thing we're going to do is we are going to go to the Start Menu and click that, then we are going to go to Computer and click that. We are going to go to C Drive and double click that. We are going to go to our downloads and double click that and we're going to see this antivirus program right here, we are going to double click that. It says we do you want to run this file and we say run. Then we are going to get this set up going and this is a process, this is security again. Let me ask you to click continue. Now here is your welcome window and we are going to go through these steps with this. Say next and you can read the license but basically we are going to accept the license. We want the standard so choose the standard and we will take the defaults and just say next. That is going to come up with a name and whatever serial numbers and you are going to say next. They will always put the license number in for you for the free version and we're going to go with finished and now once you have clicked the finished button it is going to start installing the software on to the machine and there are a number of steps to go along with this process because in the end you are going to have to do some updates because the program is constantly updating to add new virus definition files on it and this is why you want to actually have a program that you can depend upon so every time your machine starts it is going to go and check and see are there any new viruses out there and so this program will block this on the internet and it will actually search and update your computer with the latest and the greatest that's out there."