AVG Anti-Virus Specifications

AVG Anti-Virus Product Details

Features

  • Easy to use protection – install and forget
  • New program versions and updates, for free, throughout the license duration
  • Quality proven by all major antivirus certifications (VB100%, ICSA, West Coast Labs Checkmark)
  • 24/7 technical support provided at no extra cost
  • Improved virus detection based on better heuristics and NTFS data streams scanning
  • Smaller installation and update files
  • Improved user interface
  • 100% virus detection — AVG’s scanning engine has received numerous awards for its excellent detection of in the wild viruses, including the VB100% award. Its unique combination of detection methods provides full protection against viruses, worms and trojans.
  • Full on-access protection — The powerful AVG Resident Shield provides maximum protection by scanning every file opened, executed, or saved. It also prevents the opening or executing of infected files.
  • Flexible intelligent scanning — The AVG Resident Shield can include/exclude files from being scanned based on individual file extensions and can handle exceptions for potentially unwanted programs such as adware.
  • Full e-mail protection — AVG checks every e-mail sent or received, providing full protection from e-mail-borne threats. AVG supports all leading e-mail clients, including MS Outlook, The bat!, Eudora, and all other SMTP/POP3-based e-mail clients, such as Outlook Express. Encrypted connections using SSL are also supported.
  • Automatic threat handling — AVG can automatically heal or remove infected files and other threats such as trojans and worms.
  • Powerful scheduling — AVG automatically provides recommended daily schedules for scanning and updating, and also allows you to create custom-scheduled events.
  • Multiple language support — No need to buy a special language version.

Recommended System Requirements

  • CPU Intel Pentium, 300 MHz
  • 30 MB free hard drive space
  • 256 MB RAM

Supported platforms

  • MS Windows 2000
  • MS Windows XP
  • MS Windows XP Pro x64 Edition
  • MS Windows Vista
  • MS Windows Vista x64 Edition
 
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AVG Anti-Virus 8

Publisher: AVG Technologies
Version: 8
Very Good
Overall Rating
Excellent
Ease of Use
Very Good
Effectiveness
Excellent
Updates
Excellent
Feature Set
Excellent
Ease of Installation
Good
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I decided on this anti-virus product based on a positive review. When I tried to purchase it, the site declined my perfectly good credit card, at the same time giving me an order number, so that I could try another form of payment. An email came in to
by Klovik on June 05, 2009 03:15 PM MDT CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
17 of 47 found this review helpful
I've had AVG Full Version for months. I got it for free through trialpay which is available on avg's website. Not only have I had no virus-related complications since then, but when a client of mine pulled the plug on my laptop and I had to
by dragonboard on July 07, 2009 09:16 AM MDT NORTHERN CAMBRIA, PENNSYLVANIA
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