AVG antivirus remains amongst the most popular antivirus
programs and continues to receive the highest number of file downloads amongst computer security
files available online.
The all new AVG antivirus includes Anti-rootkit and Anti-spyware in addition to the usual antivirus.Downloading and
installing AVG antivirus will take as little as ten minutes which includes adding the updates
required to run the program successfully.
This antivirus program has a simple and easy to use interface. It is ideal for users of
different levels. It requires almost no user intervention. Updates are set by default to occur
automatically every four hours which can be reset to the interval of your choice. The virus
database version that is currently in your system is displayed during an update.
AVG antivirus can be safely commended for being amongst the most complete information security programs in the
market. The antivirus scanners are highlyeffective.
Apart from the antivirus, antispyware and anitrootkit scanners, AVG antivirus also includes Resident Shield
(that scans files on access), a plug in for scanning links on your browser and an email scanner AVG antivirus also
incorporates a Web Shield. This application is a broken down firewall that ‘keeps an eye’ on the web ports that you
use while browsing and detects and deletes any threats encountered.
One of the most outstanding features of AVG antivirus is its improved scanner. AVG antivirus
received a rewrite of its scanning engine. The changes made were to enable AVG antivirus to utilize
the multiple cores in modern computers better.
The rewritten AVG antivirus scanning engine now includes support for multi processors. This
means that apart from highly effective scanning, AVG antivirus also provides higher speeds in
scanning. There however are some occasional slow downs.
AVG antivirus is designed to support the various versions of Windows operating system. Support
for Vista and XP (the 64 bit version as well as the same version of Vista) are included in the
package.
