Is AVG any good as a virus remover?

Yes its good.. it even detect if the website you are surfing containing virus

For real-time protection I would recommend Avira, it is less resource intensive than AVG and has a higher rate of detection.

http://www.avira.com/en/downloads/

However as with most real-time protection they are better at stopping a virus before it starts not after so for that I recommend Malware-Bytes Anti-Malware.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

My father payed for AVG and Norton and the free version of Malwarebytes ended up resolving his serious virus problems, so I agree with the Malwarebytes recommendations..

in my personal experience i think AVG is pretty good. but overall my favorite virus removal tool has been malware-bytes anti-malware. its free and has gotten rid of every virus i have had up to date.

its crap worthless theses are ten times better use only one avira or avast and microsoft security essentials all are very good and free and this too malwarebytes its also very good it will run fine with any of the anti-virus u choose get all at cnet.com good luck