AVG is a well-known antivirus application and its free version is most popular among users. But few people, especially Windows XP users, have issues while installing the latest free version of AVG 9.0. When you try to installing AVG 9.0 free edition, it stops and displays an error message: “MSVC Redistributables installation failed. Installation of AVG cannot continue” Or “MSVC Redistributables installer requires immediate restart. Installation... 

To get protection from the latest malwares, antivirus programs should be updated regularly. Most commercial antivirus programs do this automatically, though there are differences in update frequency. Lack of regular virus signature updating is the main drawback of free antivirus programs. Free version gets lower priority than the commercial one.  Read More →