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AVG Technologies buys Sana Security
News Czech antivirus-software company AVG Technologies has bought Sana Security, the Californian makers of identity-theft prevention software. The deal, which closed on Friday and was announced on Tuesday, gives AVG its first offices in Silicon Valley.
[January 13, 2009, 12:50]
AVG antivirus removes Windows system file
News Antivirus organisation AVG has mistakenly identified a core Windows file as a piece of malware. An AVG update, pushed out on Sunday, for versions 7.5 and 8 falsely identified user32.dll as malware. Users who followed AVG's recommendation to delete...
[November 11, 2008, 16:37]
AVG: Protecting Your Computer From Tomorrow's Threats Today
White Papers It also says that AVG internet security now provides unparalleled protection against the complete range of threats such as anti-virus and anti-spyware, heuristics, anti-rootkit, anti-spam, firewall, etc.
[June 30, 2009, 1:19]
AVG: Protecting You From Today's Rapidly Evolving, Web-Borne Threats
White Papers This paper explains how AVG Technologies' products reduce the risk, by providing real-time protection against existing and emerging threats. The challenge for personal and business computer users alike today, is to stay ahead of the rapidly...
[March 14, 2009, 0:18]
Grisoft releases AVG for small businesses
News Grisoft, the firm behind the popular and free AVG antivirus product, has released a security suite for small businesses. The Czech company announced on Tuesday that it had created AVG Small Business Server (SBS) Editions for its internet security...
[March 14, 2007, 15:54]
Why AVG? - It is next to useless.
Talkback Why has AVG Free edition got an editors rating of 10? AVG is not a good product and does not provide adequate protection. AVG Free edition is known to intercept around 85% of known threats. I Used to recommend AVG Free edition but that...
[December 21, 2008, 11:08]
Norton does NOT work! Go with AVG or other quality software!
Member Review Remove Norton, install AVG - the highest was over 2,000 infections. I am so tired of reading how crappy this is. I am mad people are still buying this crap software. I fix computer - out of approx 800 service calls last year Jan 2004-Feb 28, 2005...
[March 3, 2005, 12:23]
Why you should ditch Norton AntiVirus
Talkback He had allowed his AVG Virus definiions to get out of date and had picked up a heavy dose of electronic clap. It was not possible to install McAfee, Panda, AVG and a range of other AV products. Recently I tried to disinfect my slepson's PC.
[November 12, 2004, 18:34]
Trend Micro counts the cost of faulty update
Talkback I've been using AVG AntiVirus Free Edition for a couple of years with no problem. Yestrerday, Saturday thre Windows 98 computers with AVG wouldn't boot up after been shut down. After trying for an hour I rebooted in safe mode and uninstalled AVG...
[July 17, 2005, 21:47]
Norton AV flaw may put PCs at risk of virus attack
Talkback I have been using AVG 6.0 (free edition) for last two years and have not been infected with a single virus. Norton AntiVirus is a resource hog, but AVG is not. AVG 6.0 (it has been updated to AVG 7.0)
[November 11, 2004, 4:19]
Why you should ditch Norton AntiVirus
Talkback because avg is the best you will not go wrong with avg 10 out of 10
[December 6, 2004, 12:45]
Why you should ditch Norton AntiVirus
Talkback The problem with AVG at the moment is version 7 wont update. I have tried everything from manual download upwards and even if i save the .bin files to my pc AVG wont recognise them and do the update manually.
[January 31, 2005, 9:00]
Why you should ditch Norton AntiVirus
Talkback I use AVG and sygate as an antivirus/firewall combination. However, AVG and sygate have excellent free versions. They work excellently, have a very small footprint (compared to a behemoth like Norton) and do not have strange ebay blocking anomalies...
[November 16, 2004, 13:09]
Why you should ditch Norton AntiVirus
Talkback On the recommendation of a local computer-whiz, I installed the free version of AVG. There is no way to complain to AVG about this, nor to get technical support, because I opted for the free version. Can't find any way to get this problem resolved...
[March 7, 2006, 16:16]
Lone file-swapper takes on recording industry
Talkback It would be different if the artists didn't charge $50(avg) a concert ticket on top of the $15(avg) CDs. Who wants to pay $15(avg) for a single hit? I think the whole thing is ridiculous. My view is.give me free music, if its good enough, i'll come...
[October 3, 2003, 18:08]
Protecting yourself from the MSBlast worm
Talkback www.grisoft.com the free AVG software caught and stopped this puppy yesterday when there wasn't ANY information about it. I HIGHLY reccomend AVG. The curious part for me is that my computers are using NAT and so I do not understand how the worm got...
[August 13, 2003, 14:42]
Protecting yourself from the MSBlast worm
Talkback Avg sucks use Norton Its the best just keep it updated. It caught the msblast worm, I used Avg updated to the current date and while avg was scaning for viruses Norton was finding them.
[August 17, 2003, 16:03]
Protecting yourself from the MSBlast worm
Talkback I have AVG anti virus (Free Edition and AVG 7.0 Suddenly AVG will not initialize (failed initialization of the language file). Neither will open and I am not allowed to either remove AVG files, update nor replace with a new download.
[December 8, 2005, 3:45]
Facebook closes fake profiles spreading malware
News Antivirus provider AVG Technologies said users of its LinkScanner service detected numerous profiles that were identical except with different names, and each included a link to what was represented as a home video, but which instead displayed a...
[October 2, 2009, 8:56]
Best anti-virus I've ever used!
Member Review I've used McAfee, Norton, and AVG.liked AVG, but after using this, it BLEW IT AWAY! Norton didn't detect 3 of them, AVG also didn't detect 3 of them, McAfee didn't detect 4 of them, and Panda only didn't detect 2 of them.
[March 4, 2004, 13:41]
