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AVG AntiVirus (Previously just AVG Anti-Virus abbreviation of Guard) is a family of anti-virus and Internet security software developed by AVG Technologies, a publicly traded Czech company formerly known as Grisoft. [1] It is available for Microsoft Windows, Windows Phone, Android, iOS, and OS X.
The brand comes from Grisoft’s AVG product first, “Anti-Virus Guard” Launched in 1992 in Czechoslovakia. In 1997 the first license AVG Were sold in Germany and UK. AVG Was Introduced in the U.S. in 1998. [2]

The AVG Free Edition helped Raise Awareness of the AVG product line. [3] In 2006 the AVG security package Grew to include anti-spyware, as AVG Technologies Acquired ewido Networks, an anti-spyware group. That Same year, Microsoft Announced That WOULD BE AVG components available directly Within the Windows Vista operating system. AVG Technologies Acquired Exploit Prevention Labs (XPL) in December 2007 and incorporated That company’s LinkScanner safe search and surf technology Into the AVG 8.0 security product range released in March 2008. In January 2009 AVG Technologies Acquired Sana Security, a developer of identity theft prevention software. This software Was incorporated Into the AVG security product range released in March 2009.

According to AVG Technologies, the company has more than 200 million active users Worldwide, Including more than 100 million WHO use of developer products and services on mobile devices.
AVG Technologies Provides a number of products from the AVG range, suitable Is for Windows 2000 onwards. In addition to this, AVG Technologies Also Provides Mac OS X versions of the software. AVG Anti-Virus 9.0 is available in free and commercial editions. AVG 9.0 has identity theft protection through a partnership with Intersections Inc., AVG 9.0 adds white listing Also, behavioral protection and cloud operations to Their signature-based blocking. The software adds the Resident Shield, firewall, and identity protection modules. The LinkScanner component has been Improved phishing threats to cut further. [5] Version 9 Was the last version compatible with Windows 2000.

For protection of desktop PC’s running Windows, the AVG solutions include:

AVG Internet Security is a full suite Which brings together the AVG Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, LinkScanner, Anti-Rootkit, Web Shield, Security Toolbar, Firewall, Anti-Spam, Identity Protection and System Tools protection components.
AVG is subscription-based Protection AVG Internet Security product platform Integrated Within Zen
Protection AVG AVG AntiVirus FREE is the FREE Within Zen Integrated software platform
AVG Identity Protection a discontinued product Was Against Providing identity theft protection and unknown malware threats using behavioral monitoring.
AVG Anti-Virus Plus Firewall Was a discontinued version Providing the Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, LinkScanner, Anti-Rootkit, Web Shield, Security Toolbar and Firewall protection components.
AVG Anti-Spyware Was a rebranded version of ewido Anti-Spyware, [6] Was That Into Integrated AVG Anti-Virus as of version 8.0. Was Also A free version available, having now been merged Into AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition
AVG Anti-Rootkit Was A free anti-rootkit program That Was discontinued as of late 2006. Like AVG Anti-Spyware, it has now been merged Into AVG Anti-Virus
Was AVGADMIN a discontinued a remote administration tool, Which Allows the software to swear Managed centrally on networks. [7]
AVG AntiVirus Provides the Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, LinkScanner, Anti-Rootkit, Web Shield, and Security Toolbar protection components.
AVG Search a search engine by AVG Which Provides less risk in online searching.
Like other security products, [citation needed] AVG disables Windows Defender.
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition Provides basic, Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware protection, plus the full AVG LinkScanner safe search and surf technology. There are Some Limitations with AVG AntiVirus Free Edition compared to the commercial versions of AVG products and other free antivirus. Limitations These include:
Less protection – AVG AntiVirus Free Edition Provides the Same anti-virus and anti-spyware scanning engine as the commercial product; howevera, it lacked anti-rootkit protection Until 2010. The older 7.5 Free Edition is perfectly Capable of Finding and disabling rootkits based on signatures, soft can’t scan for rootkit-like activity. The 8.5 version of AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition version lacks any anti-rootkit capability. While there is no official protection for files from messaging sources, the Resident Shield component automatically scans files They are Opened Before or copied.
Infrequent updates – AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition receives updates via a lower priority ‘service. Priority updating via high-speed servers is only available for the commercial versions of AVG products.
No telephone or e-mail technical support – There is no telephone or e-mail technical support Provided by AVG for users of AVG Free Edition products anywhere in the world. AVG Free Edition users have access to support via the self-help AVG Free Forum. [8]
Less customization – Scheduling options in AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition are very limited (only one scheduled update per day). Howevera, the AVG Resident Shield Allows configuration exclusions. The on-demand / scheduled scanner Allows advanced testing options Such as heuristics and reporting of password-protected archives reporting. Process Priority for on-demand / scheduled scans Can Be Different dynamically adjusted over three configurations.
No server support – AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition can’t swear installed on server operating systems (Such as Windows Server 2003), except for AVG 2011 Free Edition, nor Can it be used for the scanning of network drives.
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is only licensed for home and non-commercial use on a single computer.
AVG Free Edition has been Previously Responsible for popup ads advertising the non-free versions of AVG Anti-Virus and AVG Internet Security, Which claim to Provide Comprehensive more levels of protection. [9] [10] AVG Anti-Virus 8.5 Free Edition users are now subject to a daily Also pop-up advertising campaign for a “recommended upgrade” to AVG Internet Security. A “manager” on the AVG free version forum states Appears That this advertisement once per day for one month Each year. [11]

AVG paid version license intermittently Will popup ads advertising display products Such as additional AVG AVG product’s Quick Tune. This advertising can’t swear disabled.

The AVG license agreement Includes a clause (Section 9) authorizing AVG to collect, from your computer, any Personally Identifiable Information Non-broke the desire and to share it with developer’s business partners anywhere in the world. It authorizes Also AVG to track your computer usage.

All versions of the AVG products, AVG Anti-Rootkit excluding Free Edition (now discontinued), are compatible with the 64-bit edition of Windows.
Also Sells AVG Technologies AVG anti-virus and Internet security solutions for web / email servers or file servers running Windows.

AVG Internet Security Business Edition Provides centrally controlled protection for workstations and file servers, e-mail server and Microsoft SharePoint server protection, plus e-mail server based anti-spam protection.
AVG Anti-Virus Business Edition Provides centrally controlled anti-virus and anti-spyware protection for workstations and file servers.
AVG File Server Edition Provides anti-virus and anti-spyware protection for file servers.
AVG E-mail Server Edition Provides anti-virus and anti-spyware protection for e-mail servers, plus e-mail server based anti-spam protection.
AVG features Most of the common functions available in modern anti-virus and Internet security programs, Including periodic scans, scans of sent and Received emails (Including adding footers to the emails Indicating this), the Ability to “repair” Some virus-Infected files , and a quarantine area ( “virus vault”) in Which Infected files are Held.

LinkScanner [edit]
The patent pending LinkScanner technology Acquired from Exploit Prevention Labs and built Into Most AVG products, Provides real-time protection updated Against exploits and drive-by downloads. Includes LinkScanner: Search-Shield – a safe search component That places safety ratings next to Each link in Google, Yahoo! and MSN search results; plus Active Surf-Shield – a safe surf component That scans the contents of a web site in real-time to Ensure Opened it’s safe being. [13] Concerns regarding web analytics have made LinkScanner a controversial component (see below “LinkScanner Concerns”).

LinkScanner Concerns [edit]
AVG 8.0 Was When first released, its LinkScanner safe search feature Was shown to Cause an Increase in traffic That Appear on web sites high in search engine results pages. Since LinkScanner disguises the scans as coming from an Internet Explorer 6 browser When it prescans Each site listed in the search results, web site usage logs showed incorrect and overinflated site visitor statistics. The prescanning of Every link in search results Also caused web sites to transfer more data than usual, resulting in Higher bandwidth usage for web site Operators and slow performance for users. [14] Said site administrators initially AVG WOULD BE Able to filter the LinkScanner traffic out of developer’s site statistics, leaving the problem of excess bandwidth usage To Be Solved still. [15] Pay-per-click advertising wasn’t AFFECTED by the Increase in traffic. [16]

AVG Online Shield [edit]
AVG Online Shield is a feature, files and check Designed to Ensure That They are safe. Only breaks it say on your computer downloads. AVG Online Shield ensures your safety Also the while you exchange files via instant messenger and VoIP Clients like MSN and Yahoo! and ICQ. [17]

In response to Complaints, AVG Announced That as of 9 July 2008 “Search-Shield Will no longer scan Each Search Result online for new exploits, Which Was causing the spikes That webmasters Addressed with us”, [18] releasing a new build on That That date Applies a local blacklist, said prefetches and scans only Those links clicked on by the user.
In September 2015, AVG Announced That It would start tracking users for profit, Their Analyzing data for sale to the advertising industry. This Measure Received criticism from Consumers, the press and security industry, nor Many users intended to use the software in order to protect themselves from spyware and wouldn’t Expect the functions of spyware to be “hidden” in security software. [20]

As of 2014 there are Numerous reports dating back to 2012 That the AVG Safeguard Toolbar Installs Itself without the consent of the user, as a side effect of installing other applications. The toolbar program Appears to Cause significant RAM and Issues Can Be considered an intrusive potentially unwanted program (PUP). Once installed, the AVG toolbar is virtually impossible to remove. The toolbar uninstaller does not function, Instead re-installing the add-on f manually removed. Consequently, discussions and blog posts Many have describedat complex procedure for removal of the AVG toolbar, Each with very mixed results. [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26]

AVG test lab published results of AVG PC TuneUp. [27] While AVG Claim That Were used Microsoft Hardware guidelines for proper testing, there are no references to provable Such guidelines in the Performance Test Whitepaper. Given That there are no proven records of the Test being verifiable, the results Can Be Fabricated or considered UNFAIR.

In December 2015, the “AVG Web TuneUp” Google Chrome extension (automatically installed with AVG AntiVirus) Was Revealed to Contain Vulnerabilities multiple critical security. [28] Most notably, Chrome users’ browsing history Could Be exposed to any website, cookies from any site the user has Visited Could Be read by an attacker, and trivial cross-site scripting (XSS) Issues Could Allow any site to execute arbitrary code (as another domain).

The XSS vulnerability allowed a user’s mail from “mail.google.com” to be read by any website, or financial information to swear read from the user’s online banking site. The team AVG fixed this by only allowing “mysearch.avg.com” and “webtuneup.avg.com” These scripts to execute. Remediation on Despite this, attackers Could any of These attacks leverage the if an XSS vulnerability was found on the AVG sites. As of April 2016 Was Web TuneUp still not available for download from the AVG website.