The popular and powerful protection software launches its free version on Thursday, April 24, 2008.
AVG Anti-Virus Free 8.0, a new version with significant new features over 7.5 is coming to a desktop near you!
They have also launched a series of fun marketing videos on YouTube to herald the new version. This light-hearted approach to the serious topic of Internet Security is in no way a reflection of AVG’s commitment to making sure that everyone has protection against the ever-growing threats on the Internet.
Karl Obluk, CTO of AVG Technologies:
With the release of AVG Free 8.0, we are underscoring our belief that all computer users, regardless of their computer usage needs, have the right to a safe and worry-free computing experience.
As i-SupportDesk has already pointed out, AVG’s antivirus technology got the VB100% award in Virus Bulletin’s last three tests.
PC Magazine reports:
ICSA Labs certifies it for virus detection. West Coast Labs goes further, giving it checkmark certification for both virus detection and cleaning, plus another checkmark for Trojan horse detection. European lab AV-Comparatives gave it their top rating for on-demand virus removal; it didn’t rate as high in tests of behavior-based detection. AV-Test of Germany rated it very good at spyware detection, good at virus detection, and merely satisfactory at cleaning up what it detected. The suite turned in decent scores in PC Magazine’s own tests of its ability to clean up malware and prevent it from attacking a clean system.
One of the most interesting improvements to the leading security program is the full integration of antivirus and anti-spyware scanning and cleaning, which makes the process of scanning much faster.
Another new feature is the LinkScanner technology that AVG added after they acquired Exploit Prevention Labs last year. Each time you search using Google, MSN, or Yahoo! it will check every link and flag any that are dangerous, and it works in real-time.
The product will be available for download from http://free.avg.com starting on Thursday, April 24.
