AVG Antivirus now bundled with complete internet security
Full AVG Internet Protection
Buy direct from GriSoft for £41.95
AVG Internet Security From Amazon UK £35.99
AVG internet security includes:
- Support Direct from Manufacturer
- Fast Download Servers for Virus Definition Updates
- Ability to exclude directories which cause issues
- Inbuilt personal firewall
- Multi Lingual Support
Complete security protection against all of the most serious Internet threats, including viruses, worms, trojans, spyware, adware, hackers and spam
- Anti-Virus protects from viruses, worms and trojans
- Anti-Spyware protects from spyware, adware and other malicious programs
- Anti-Spam filters spam and protects against phishing attacks
- Firewall protects from hackers
Antivirus Home Solutions
It is now public knowledge that antivirus software must be installed on the home user computer, Microsoft windows xp examines the computer for signs of an antivirus scanner and warns you if you are not running one.
Home users are just as much at risk to viruses than office users; maybe even more so as offices are strict as to which URLs a user is allowed to go to. For this reason and others providers like Grisoft create AVG antivirus free edition for the home user.
Dont think that AVG antivirus free edition is lacking functionality due to the fact its free, on the contrary AVG antivirus free edition is oozing with features which drive the home user to recommend and purchase it for their office; after all thats the reason Grisoft give it away free.
Inside AVG antivirus free edition
Taking an initial glance at AVG free antivirus you will see 8 components.
Resident Shield
Email Scanner
Schedular
Shell Extension
Update Manager
Virus Vault
Test Center
Help Topics
Free Antivirus
As an accredited AVG Antivirus reseller Sintec are offering Free AVG Antivirus for the home users single computer for life. We cannot offer support for this antivirus product, but if you wish to purchase AVG antivirus for your corporate network or AVG antivirus plus firewall for the home computer we can offer you such services.
Free Antivirus Terms of Usage
AVG Antivirus Free Edition is for private, non-commercial, single home computer use only. Use of AVG Free Edition within any organization or for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited.
The AVG Antivirus Free Edition is absolutely not for use with any type of OEM bundling with SW, HW component or any service. Your use of AVG Antivirus Free Edition shall be in accordance with and is subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the AVG Free Edition License Agreement which accompanies AVG Free Edition.
AVG free antivirus functions
Resident Shield
Resident Shield provides On-Access antivirus scanning on files and documents. It is granular as you can chose the type of files you want scanned on-access for example only scan documents and not program files.
Email Scanner
Email Scanner comes with support for multiple servers; It scans incoming (pop3) & outgoing (smtp) email messages and includes logging.
Schedular
The Schedular cannot be user defined within the free edition, it automatically updates the virus definitions and tests the system at the time you define. If the professional version is purchased the schedular allows you to configure your own tests on the system.
Shell Extension
Scans the windows explorer context menu for viruses. You can right click any file within windows and ask AVG free antivirus to scan the file.
Update Manager
Update Manager controls how you receive the definitions, whether from AVG across the internet, through a proxy or dialup adaptor i.e modem.
Virus Vault
Virus Vault provides a quarantine area for viruses; from here you can heal viruses, view reports & restore objects.
Test Center
Test Center allows you to start a manual scan of any portion of your computer including system areas, hard drives & cdrom. Other features include the rescue disk creation tool.
Help Topics
Help Topics are user friendly and very informative, free does not mean unfriendly.