Hello Anukul,
Thank you for contacting us. There are many variants of ransom ware evolving everyday and AVG is capable of detecting and removing most of them. These infections will mostly encrypts your data and demands money to decrypt and access them. When AVG detects the malware, it will remove it from your PC, but this will not de-crypt your files. So we suggest you always have a backup of your important files. Thank you.
Hello this is my first AVG using, I suspect for a free version it can protect my pc from ransomware ?
Hello Anukul,
Thank you for contacting us. There are many variants of ransom ware evolving everyday and AVG is capable of detecting and removing most of them. These infections will mostly encrypts your data and demands money to decrypt and access them. When AVG detects the malware, it will remove it from your PC, but this will not de-crypt your files. So we suggest you always have a backup of your important files. Thank you.