AVG Anti-Virus 8

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