AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition

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100% virus detection — AVG's scanning engine has received numerous awards for its excellent detection of "in the wild" viruses, including the VB100% award. Its unique combination of detection methods provides full protection against viruses, worms, and trojans.
Full on-access protection — The powerful AVG Resident Shield provides maximum protection by scanning every file opened, executed, or saved. It also prevents the opening or executing of infected files.
Full e-mail protection — The AVG Personal E-mail Scanner checks every e-mail sent or received, providing full protection from e-mail-borne threats. AVG supports all leading e-mail clients, including MS Outlook, The bat!, Eudora, and all other SMTP/POP3-based e-mail clients, such as Outlook Express. Encrypted connections using SSL are also supported.
Automatic threat handling — AVG can automatically heal or remove infected files and other threats such as trojans and worms.

Less protection — AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition does not detect potentially unwanted programs.
No server support — AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition cannot be installed on server operating systems (such as Windows Server 2003), nor can it be used for the scanning of network drives.
No customization — Scheduling options in the AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition are very limited (only one scheduled update per day, one scheduled scan per day etc.). Also the Resident Shield configuration is limited with no exclusion settings. AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition does not offer advanced testing options, password-protected archives reporting, adjustment of scan process priority and many other features.
Slower updates — AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition receives updates via a lower priority service. Priority updating via high-speed servers is only available for commercial versions.
No technical support!

* Operating systems marked with an asterisk (MS Windows 98, MS Windows ME, MS Windows NT and MS Windows NT Server 4.0) will only be supported until August 2008.
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition cannot be installed on server operating systems (such as Windows Server 2003), nor can it be used for the scanning of network drives.

The AVG Free Advisor Web site (free.grisoft.com) provides free help resources, including online documentation, FAQ, and an AVG Free Forum.
AVG’s world-class professional, technical product support is only available to registered customers of commercial AVG versions.

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is for private, non-commercial, single home computer use only. Use of AVG Free within any organization or for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited.
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is absolutely not for use with any type of OEM bundling with software, hardware components, or any service.
Your use of AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition shall be in accordance with and is subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition License Agreement that accompanies AVG Free.
If you are interested in commercial use, free technical support, or other benefits provided as part of commercial versions of AVG, please refer to AVG Anti-Virus Professional Edition.

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