AVG Free

Protect your computer against potential threats free of charge.

Protecting your computer free of charge is no longer a utopia nor a distant dream. Within the competitive market of the antivirus there are various application with which to maintain the computer safe. AVG, one of the big companies of the sector, also has its own free antivirus, maybe the best on the market, taking into account the vast amount of people that already use it: AVG Free.

How it Works

Once installed, AVG Free will scan the computer in search of the threats and infections that may exist and will try to eliminate them. These analysis can be programed so that they take place at a given moment. The software runs in low priority mode when it isn't use so as to use as few of the PC's resources as possible and it acts when it detects inactivity by the user, even though this is a function that can be customized.

Interface

Once of the strong points of AVG Free is its appearance. Remodeled in comparison with previous versions, AVG Free makes it easier to handle it due to its clear interface and quick controls.

To complete the features of the product, AVG has developed some additional functions in the form of extra modules:

• LinkScanner will allow you to browser over Internet and carry out all kinds of searches with the maximum security. This system asks each time a website is accessed and is capable of controlling analyzing the links from the social networks that you use.
• Anti-Rootkit is a module in charge of searching for rootkits. If purpose it to safeguard your PC to avoid it being accessed remotely. What's more, you will be able to analyze programs and applications, DLL libraries and drivers.
• E-Mail Scanner will take care of controlling your email tray. It analyzes both inbound and outbound mail and makes sure there are no potential threats.

The database of AVG Free is continuously updated, in such a way that its protection covers all the new threats detected over the net thanks to its user community and the technology of its “Protection Cloud”. You won't have to worry about the most innovating malicious code: AVG Free frequently updates this database to provide complete up-to-date protection.

An excellent options if you need free protection against virus and spyware.

Download AVG Free to protect your PC against virus and other dangers. A product that is so widely spread among users, that doesn't have any cost and that includes very interesting features like AVG Free can't be missing from anyone's essential software list.

Latest changes:

• Improved the detection of new variants of Alureon rootkit.
• Fixed various rootkit and false positive detection errors.
• Add supports IPv6 in the AntiSpam update.
• Fixed a problem in the exploration of dynamic hard drives.
• Improved and optimized heuristic detection.
• Fixed an error during the registry scan.
• Improved polymorphic malware detection methods.
• Various firewall, kernel and general performance improvements.