AVG Anti. Virus Wikipedia. AVG Anti. Virus previously just AVG, abbreviation of Anti Virus Guard is a family of antivirus software developed by AVG Technologies, a subsidiary of Avast Software. It is available for Windows, mac. OS and Android. HistoryeditThe brand AVG comes from Grisofts first product, Anti Virus Guard, launched in 1. Antivirus Ratings 2012' title='Antivirus Ratings 2012' />Czech Republic. In 1. AVG licenses were sold in Germany and UK. AVG was introduced in the U. S. in 1. 99. 8. 3The AVG Free Edition helped raise awareness of the AVG product line. In 2. AVG security package grew to include anti spyware, as AVG Technologies acquired ewido Networks, an anti spyware group. That same year, Microsoft announced that AVG components would be available directly within the Windows Vista operating system. AVG Technologies acquired Exploit Prevention Labs XPL in December 2. Link. Scanner safe search and surf technology into the AVG 8. March 2. 00. 8. In January 2. 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 2. According to AVG Technologies, the company has more than 2. On 7 July 2. 01. 6, Avast announced an agreement to acquire AVG for 1. Platform supporteditAVG provides AVG Anti. Virus Free for Windows, AVG Anti. Virus for Mac for mac. Antivirus Ratings 2012' title='Antivirus Ratings 2012' />OS, and AVG Anti. Virus for Android for Android devices. All are freemium products They are free to download, install, update and use, but for technical support, a premium plan must be purchased. FeatureseditAVG 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. Link. ScannereditThe patent pending Link. Scanner technology acquired from Exploit Prevention Labs and built into most AVG products, provides real time updated protection against exploits and drive by downloads. Microsoft Encarta 2009 Italiano Gratis. Link. Scanner includes Search Shield  a safe search component that places safety ratings next to each link in Google, Yahoo MSN search results plus Active Surf Shield  a safe surf component that scans the contents of a web site in real time to ensure its safe being opened. Concerns regarding web analytics have made Link. Scanner a controversial component see below Link. Scanner Concerns. Link. Scanner ConcernseditWhen AVG 8. D7R6z0OnKHs/0.jpg' alt='Antivirus Ratings 2012' title='Antivirus Ratings 2012' />The free Avira Antivirus gets excellent ratings from the independent labs, but in testing its scans were slow, and its browser protection only works with. NANO Antivirus, free download. NANO AntiVirus protects a computer from any kinds of malware. Link. Scanner safe search feature was shown to cause an increase in traffic on web sites that appear high in search engine results pages. Since Link. Scanner 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. AVG initially said site administrators would be able to filter the Link. Scanner traffic out of their site statistics, leaving the problem of excess bandwidth usage still to be solved. Pay per click advertising was not affected by the increase in traffic. AVG Online ShieldeditAVG Online Shield is a feature, designed to check files and ensure that they are safe. AVG Online Shield also ensures the safety of exchanging files via instant messengers and Vo. IP clients. 1. 1In response to complaints, AVG announced that as of 9 July 2. Search Shield will no longer scan each search result online for new exploits, which was causing the spikes that webmasters addressed with us,1. ControversyeditAs of 2. AVG Safe. Guard 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 issues and 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 if manually removed. Consequently, many discussions and blog posts have described complex procedures for removal of the AVG toolbar, each with very mixed results. In September 2. 01. AVG announced that it would start tracking users for profit, analyzing their data for sale to the advertising industry. This measure received criticism from consumers, the press and security industry, as many users intended to use the software in order to protect themselves from spyware and would not expect the functions of spyware to be hidden in security software. In December 2. 01. AVG Web Tune. Up Google. Chrome extension automatically installed with AVG Anti. Virus was revealed to contain multiple critical security vulnerabilities. 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 website to execute arbitrary code as another domain. The XSS vulnerability allowed a users mail from mail. The AVG team fixed this by only allowing mysearch. Despite this remediation, attackers could leverage any of these attacks if an XSS vulnerability was found on the AVG sites. As of April 2. 01. Web Tune. Up was still not available for download from the AVG website. ReceptioneditAVG Antivirus Free 2. Jsp Project With Source Code. PC Magazine Editors Choice in the free antivirus category. AVG Anti. Virus Free 2. Editor Choice badge of Soft. Champ. 2. 3See alsoeditReferenceseditExternal linksedit.