All Free Antivirus

This free anti virus is packed with features like automatic scheduled updates, automatic scheduled scanning, with the option to perform these manually whenever you decide to, plus other features. …. all for the extremely low price of . . . . nothing ! 

Installation

How do you unlock all these treasures ?

• Go now to the home page of grisoft.com and you will see a search box at top right;
  
• do a search on “free edition”;
  
• select the search result, ‘AVG Anti Virus: AVG Free Edition’;under the heading ‘Download’, take the link to ‘AVG Free Website’;
  
• make sure you click on the ‘AVG Free Edition’ exe file link, unless that is you wish to click on the Trial Version which is valid for 30 days. The exe file is about 16 MB;
  
• when your new exe file is loaded into your ‘C: Downloads Grisoft ‘ directory, double click on it for the usual install steps.

The Control Center

When you have installed the avg free edition you will see its icon, bottom right of your screen on the task bar. Its appearance is similar to the small logo, top left of the image below.

Right-click on the task bar icon, and select ‘Launch AVG Control Center’, and the following screen will display -

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The 6 large buttons are entitled -

• AVG Resident Shield;
  
• E-mail Scanner;
  
• Internal Virus Database;
  
• Scheduler;
  
• Shell Extension;
  
• Update Manager;

and there is another entitled Virus Vault.

To modify the properties of these various components, double click on the relevant button. Alternatively click on the Properties button which is always displayed bottom right.

The bottom panel varies to suit the button (component) highlighted.

AVG Resident Shield

The Shield runs continually and monitors programs and documents for safety. Using the property dialogs (accessed by double clicking the button as mentioned above) you have the choice of scanning all files or just infectable files and selected documents.

E-mail Scanner

The Shield scans incoming and outgoing emails. Via the properties you are given some control over the log file, and you are also able to view it.

Internal Virus Database

The property dialog of this component declares the date and version of the database. You can use the ‘Update’ button in the bottom panel to manually begin the update process over the internet.

Scheduler

This tells us when the next virus scan takes place, also when the next update takes place. In order to modify these times, you can use the button ‘Scheduled Tasks’ in the bottom panel.

Shell Extension

… related to scanning in Windows Explorer. You are given options as to how scanning will operate.

Update Manager

This gives you control over how the updates operate. In order to modify the scheduled time for updating, use the Scheduler above.

You can initiate an update manually using the ‘Update’ button in the bottom panel, or use the ‘Check for Updates’ button in the left hand panel.

Virus Vault

Using the ‘Open’ button in the bottom panel you can inspect the Virus Vault.

The Test Center

There is some overlap with the Control Center, but the Test Center enables you to inspect a record of test (scan) results.

It also provides a wizard for the creation of a Rescue Disk. You are given the option of its location, which may be a floppy disk or CD or another hard drive.

Conclusion

A valuable piece of software provided entirely free of charge or obligation.
Recommended.

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TRADEMARKS. AVG Anti Virus, AVG Free Edition, AVG Resident Shield, the AVG Control Center image, are not the property of allfreeantivirus.com but pertain to, or are owned by Grisoft.com

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