Grisoft – AVG Antivirus Reviews
AVG Anti-Virus is a series of anti-virus software for Microsoft Windows and Linux. AVG offers a wide range of products from the range of AVG for Windows 98 and following. Moreover, Grisoft also offers a Linux version of the software.
- AVG Free Edition, a freeware program which allows home users unlimited use and unlimited updates. It is not legal to use these commercially – they are for personal, home use only.
- AVG Anti-Virus Professional Edition, this is the standalone Anti-Virus product designed primarily for home desktops or for small organizations using peer-to-peer networks. With Version 7.5 the SoHo edition has been discontinued per se, but has been replaced with the option of multiple licences for the Professional Edition. Available are 2, 3, and 5 licences.
- AVG Plus Firewall Edition, adds a firewall to the Professional version. Is available in 1, 2, 3 and 5 licences.
- AVG Anti-Spyware Edition, protects against spyware. Based upon the ewido engine.
- AVG Anti-Malware Edition, has both anti-virus and anti-spyware facilities
- AVG Internet Security Edition, contains anti-virus, firewall, anti-spyware and anti-spam facilities.
- AVG Network Editions – With the release of AVG 7.5, there are now several Network Editions of AVG. These are AVG Anti-Virus Network Edition, AVG Anti-Malware Network Edition and AVG Internet Security Network Edition. The Network Editions allow for centralized deployment and management of the AVG products.
- AVG Rescue CD – a bootable variant of AVG Anti-Malware that can be run in Windows PE. This allows you to scan and remove viruses and spyware that may be stopping a PC from booting. Other tools include a registry editor, network mapping, ping testing and IP configurator.
- AVG Anti-Rootkit (Free) – a specific tool allowing you to scan for and remove rootkits, but does not include realtime protection.
All versions of AVG will trade relations with 64-Bit Edition for Windows. AVG Free is not compatible with Windows 64-bit. AVG Anti-Virus administrators and anti-malware editions also work on Windows Vista. At the time of writing separate component of the firewall and anti-spyware software is not compatible with Vista. It should be specified.
All versions of AVG are in an experimental basis. Each test is recommended for all users (including enterprises and institutions) to end 30 days of probation. After this deadline is necessary that the performance of key that opens the exhibition for its use.
Grisoft has an update of AVG Internet Security Edition, making it compatible with Windows Vista. Visit Grisoft website at www.grisoft.com / www.avg.com for more information.
Definition about Computer Virus
Computer virus is a computer program that can copy or reproduce itself and spread by itself to insert a copy of the program or other documents. Viruses can damage a computer (for example by destroying the data on the documents), make computer users feel disturbed, and not to cause effects at all.
Computer viruses can damage the general computer software and can not directly damage hardware with a computer how to load a program that forces over the process to a specific device such as VGA, Memory Processor even (especially in the operating system, such as family-based operating system of Windows (Windows 95, Windows 98/98SE, Windows NT, Windows NT Server, Windows 2000, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003, Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 2) even GNU / Linux. The negative effect is virus multiplication, particularly computer itself, which makes resources on the computer (such as CPU time, memory usage) to be reduced significantly. Almost 95% of a virus, the virus is a computer-based Windows operating system. The remaining 2% attacked Linux / GNU with kernel under version 1.4 (and Unix, as the source of Linux, of course), 1% Mac attack, especially Mac OS 9, Mac OS X (Tiger, Leopard). 2% more attack other operating systems such as FreeBSD, OS / 2 IBM, and Sun Operating System.
Attacks the virus can be prevented or overcome by using antivirus software. This type of software can also detect and remove computer viruses, provided that the data base computer virus, which is owned by the antivirus software already contains the code to remove the virus.
The example of viruses is the Worm, Trojan, etc.. Examples of antivirus software that can be unreliable and prevent the virus is KasperSky, AVG, AntiVir, PCMAV, Norton, Norman, and McAfee.
Avira AntiVir Review
Avira is a German company of antivirus software. His anti-virus applications based on the anti-virus engine AntiVir, for the first time in 1988. He was described as “H BEDV Datentechnik GmbH”, as it was founded. An antivirus software AntiVir Personal Edition Classic, is free for personal use. On the symbol of a stylized shield is open.
AntiVir Personal Edition Classic is a free software. This application is for personal use only. Like most antivirus software scans the disk for viruses and works as a process in the background, the review of each open and close the file. In addition, the online updates (daily standard), a window with a display that the user purchase AntiVir Personal Edition Premium.
AntiVir Personal Edition premium costs € 20 per year. He has a number of improvements on the free version, the most important:
* In addition to viruses, but also detects spyware, adware and spyware;
* Update to the Internet are both fully and faster than the free version, due to the exclusiveness of the download server;
* Pressure from the exploration POP3 (checks to the viruses in e-mail before it is received)
AntiVir is for commercial purposes and costs € 59 for one year. It is comparable with AntiVir Personal Edition Premium, May, but also to protect the computers in a network and P2P networks.
AntiVir server, AntiVir AntiVir MailServer proxy server and the protection of data, e-mail and proxy servers correspondently. The cost for each of these applications is the hundreds of thousands of euros, depending on the number of users (10 250) and time (1, 3 or 5 years).
AntiVir Mobile runs on Windows CE, Pocket PC or on Symbian smartphones. The price is around $ 25 for the PocketPC and smartphones free of charge.
In August and November 2006, AV-comparison tests performed on the ability to detect many things in common and popular anti-virus, including the Symantec Norton AntiVirus. During the tests, the performance of AntiVir is in second place behind AntiVirusKit of G DATA Security Scan on request and Eset NOD32 in the Retrospective / Proactive disclosure category. According to the website of Avira, both classic and the premium editions use the same scanning engine.
Website:
www.avira.com
www.free-av.com
