AVG Anti-Virus 2012

The AVG company provided in September, 2011 a new collection of the anti-virus products for 2012, including a free antivirus of the consumer class AVG Anti-Virus Free 2012, a commercial antivirus of AVG Anti-Virus 2012 and a multifunction security system for separate computers and small networks AVG Internet Security 2012. The increased work speed and also smaller amount of memory consumed during the operation of anti-virus modules became the main difference of a new series much.

It is worth stopping separately on differences of a free antivirus of AVG Free 2012 most of which often becomes a learning object for ordinary users. File size with virus signatures is reduced in the new version by 40% – these signatures help to distinguish viruses in a system. Besides, on assurances of developers, the number of the processes started by a free antivirus during operation is reduced from 16 to 11, and consumption of memory was reduced by 20% in comparison with the previous versions. As a result, loading of the computer even with the included preliminary check is executed quicker.

The new utility of monitoring which monitors consumption of memory in the Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer browsers is a part of the new AVG 2012 collection. This utility under the name AVG Advisor warns the user that one of browsers began to increase uncontrolledly the volume of busy memory using a pop-up window and also suggests to restart this browser.

As for basic function – protection against viruses, AVG 2012 not bad proved to be in independent tests. For example, according to the website AV-Test.org, this product showed excellent indicators in warning of infections and the average level of destruction of the viruses which already got into a system. Besides, the products AVG 2012 managed to cope with an old problem of the increased level of false operations. In particular, the website AV-Comparatives.org found out that from January to June, 2011 the products AVG steadily reduced number of false operations, showing noticeable general improvement.

The free antivirus of AVG 2012 offers several serious new products for increase in security. The first is a corporate technology for identification of one of the most unpleasant types of modern threats – false antiviruses. It is worth reminding that it is the programs issuing themselves for antiviruses or web applications for fight against viruses, but actually they only infect the computer at installation or extort money for the useless "paid version". AVG 2012 successfully blocks both of these types of false antiviruses.

One more innovation – the LinkScanner utility – allows to find now the mutating forms of the known viruses. The new feature of AVG Accelerator available in the paid version optimizes display of a streaming video from the website of YouTube and loading of applications from the website Download.com.