AVG antivirus is a household name, which comes from Czech Republic and ranks third among the top antivirus software in the world in 2007, and is a household name in Europe and America. AVG
Extremely safe and perfectly protected. Effectively solve the new generation of security threats spread on the Internet. Ensure data security, protect your privacy, and resist threats from spyware, adware, Trojan horses, dialers, keyloggers and worms. Under the simple and easy-to-use interface, it provides you with advanced scanning detection means and the most cutting-edge technology at present. Anti-virus programs can only provide limited protection against key threats, such as Trojans, worms, dialers, hijackers, spyware and keyloggers. This is the starting point of AVG anti-spyware protection, which can supplement the existing security applications to create a complete security system-because only a complete security system can work effectively.
2.2 Background information
AVG is from Czech Republic. Since the establishment of 1992, it has more than ten years' experience in developing antivirus software. Its security products are widely used in Europe, America and Oceania. It has passed the certification of ICA laboratory and won the Virusbulletin VB 100% Award in 2008 (that is, 100% killed the virus database published by virus bulletin, and only a few antivirus software manufacturers in the world won this honor). On June 65438+1October 265438+1October 2008, the original company "Grisoft, S.R.O.' Corporate" was officially renamed as "AVGTechnologiesCZ, S.R.O", which symbolizes another product performance and corporate culture of AVG.
2.3 product classification
AVG can be divided into household and commercial products according to the types of users, and divided into the following three versions of AVG antivirus software: AVG anti-spyware AVG anti-spyware version, which has been officially stopped. Now it has been upgraded to AVG Antivirus 8.0 AVG Internet Security AVG Network Security Suite (including antivirus software and firewall). AVGanti-Virus: AVGanti-Virus system has quite complete functions, and can immediately detect any accessed file to prevent computer virus infection. E-mails and attachments can be scanned to prevent computer viruses from spreading through e-mails and attachments; The virus database records the characteristics of computer viruses, attack dates and other related information; Boot protection can detect boot virus when the computer is turned on to prevent boot virus infection. In anti-virus, we can scan floppy disks, hard disks, CD players and network disks. When scanning, you can only scan a directory on the disk, hard disk or CD-ROM drive. Can scan file viruses, macro viruses and compressed files (supports real-time decompression scanning of compressed files such as ZIP, ARJ and RAR). If a file is found to be infected with a virus during scanning, the infected file will be isolated to AVGVirusVauIt, and the virus will be detoxified after scanning. Support online upgrade. There are three versions of AVG antivirus (professional version, server version and free version), and there is also a free version for personal non-profit use, with complete functions, but some functions cannot be set, such as antivirus schedule can only be set once a day. Now the latest 8.0 free version is available for everyone to use. AVG antivirus is well-known in Europe and has many supporters in China. In 2008, AVG released version 8.0, which subverted the anti-virus specialized in anti-virus, created a new way of network security, and focused on promoting Internet security products. This move is also catching up with the mixed threat wave on the internet in 2008. For information about this website, please refer to the extended reading at the end of the page. AVG 8.0 introduces new functions and new user interface of AVG, which greatly simplifies navigation. Intuitive, high-speed and new high-performance scanning engine-anti-virus and anti-spyware combined to detect new link scanning technology-real-time monitoring of threats hidden behind web links, new web page shielding-scanning every internet file to download new anti-rootkit- providing rootkit detection and deleting new firewalls-redesigned, intuitive user interface and faster filtering engine, New system management tools-new simplified product lines for diagnosis and computer management-new AVG design with high-end products of Internet security series as the core-new products compete for people's attention, new AVG improvements and improved ResidenShield-can meet more document opening requirements at the same time. Improve the anti-spam function-the engine mentions providing faster performance, improve e-mail scanning, flexibly control different formats of e-mail (including HTML), and improve the modern manager-the updated user interface is simpler than before, and the navigation basic user interface is simplified, which is specially designed for home users and provides advanced installation for experienced users. After user testing, it is confirmed that the scanning engine with high availability and high performance is combined with anti-virus and anti-spyware detection. The completely rewritten scan engine supports new file types and archive formats, as well as new simulators. Allow more effective heuristic analysis, lower memory consumption, support multi-threaded and multi-core CPU to run seamlessly in various operating systems, and can be used for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows. Note: Linux and FreeBSD versions will also provide secure web browsing through the new patented LinkScanner technology, and prevent path downloads and other potential threats of poisoned web pages in real time. Competing products, such as McAfee's SiteAdvisor, cannot provide real-time protection for customers because they rely on the static database of suspicious websites for days or weeks. Active Surfing-Shield-"Safe Surfing"-provides real-time website and final analysis of intercepting attacks. Search-Shield-"Safe Search"-Cooperate with major search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN) at the same time, and display the icon of safety rating next to each linked search engine. Dangerous websites will be blocked. Features of AVG 9.0: the new high-speed scanner greatly shortens the scanning time by half, and the completely redesigned firewall and IDP behavior recognition technology provide users with more protection and greater performance. Cutting-edge technologies: such as real-time monitoring, applying anti-phishing protection improved by white list to install new senses on the new interface faster, Improve the usability of AVG8.5 compatible system MS Windows 7 MS Windows 2000 MS Windows XP MS Windows XP Pro x64 Edition MS Windows Vista MS Windows Vista x64 Edition MS Windows 2000. Server ms windows 2003 server ms windows 2003 server x64 edition Linux i386 FreeBSD AVG 8.0 compatible application software ms exchange server 5.x ms exchange server 2000/ 2003 MS Exchange Server 2007 * will soon launch Lotus Domino (MS Windows) Lotus Domino (Linux I386) Postfix QMail Sendmail Exim ICQ (IM Protection) MSN (IM Protection). Languages supported by Internet Explorer (Link Scanner) Mozilla Firefox (Link Scanner)–All products German English Brazil Portuguese Czechoslovakia Polish Danish Spanish French Hungarian Serbian Italian Japanese Dutch Now the latest AVG is a free version of 9.0. The free version of AVG9.0 was officially released in 2009. 10. 15. Compared with AVG8.0, AVG 8.5 was released in March 2009. This update is mainly a further contribution to family-level security products. AVG version 8.5 has made some improvements in the way of assembly and structure realization, which has improved the stability of the product. Most notably, AVG officially acquired Sana, an internationally renowned network anti-theft expert. I believe that the overall technology of version 8.5 will bring more surprise network protection to users. Nowadays, the range of home-level options has increased, and the new product named AVG Identity Protection is specially designed for malware protection and identity theft protection technology. The Chinese version has added the free version of AVG.