ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.91.2
ClamWin is a Free Antivirus for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP and 2003. ClamWin Free Antivirus comes with an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge.
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23.8.2007 Free AVG 8.0 Download
Yesterday, Grisoft announced that a new version of AVG Antivirus Free would be released today, April 24, that was supposed to come with several new functions beside the
ones already included in the application
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24.4.2008 AVG Free Edition 7.5.487a1130
AVG Free Edition is the well-known anti-virus protection tool. AVG Free is available free-of-charge to home users for the life of the product! Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high-level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers.
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13.9.2007 AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5.463a1000d
AVG Free Edition is the well-known anti-virus protection tool.
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22.4.2007 Download Windows 7 Antivirus from AVG, Kaspersky and Symantec
Just as it was the case with Windows Vista, the mitigations introduced by Microsoft alone in Windows 7 are not sufficient to bulletproof the operating system on their own.
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15.1.2009AVG update breaks iTunes
A recent AVG signature file update is incorrectly identifying iTunes/iPod files as viruses, as reported by forum users on the Apple website. The AVG
Virus scanner identifies all iTunes/iPod related files as the 'Small.BOG' trojan - a trojan which does not seem to exist, as revealed by a
quick Google search. The update, which is unidentified, but confirmed to be a false positive, is removing all files, and deleting them. Once these
files have been "cleaned", iTunes will not run, and is not fixable by a reinstall. A fix has been pushed by AVG in the latest signature update -
but users may need to reinstall iTunes. A fix can be found here on the Apple Forums.
Read full story.....
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26.07.2009Free AVG Anti-Virus Now Works
on Vista Beta 2
Grisoft, the maker of the
popular free antivirus
software AVG has announced
that Microsoft has fixed a bug
that was preventing AVG from
installing on Vista Beta 2.
You need to get an update
though.
Peter
Cameron of Grisoft?s
Australian distributor
Avalanche Technology said
Vista Beta 2 users should
obtain the Microsoft patch via
Windows Update. ?After
application of the update, AVG
products can be installed and
used without any further
problems or restrictions,? he
said.
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14.07.2006AVG Technologies buys web protection vendor
Security vendor AVG Technologies has acquired internet protection vendor Exploit Prevention Labs. AVG was acquired by anti-virus vendor Grisoft in
August this year (CRN, 24 August), and the combined company was rebranded AVG Technologies.
Roger Thompson, co-founder and chief technology
officer of Exploit Prevention Labs, said: “Exploit’s software blocks dangerous downloads on websites and addresses drive-by attacks.
“AVG is leapfrogging the competition with its products at the moment and with 60m users in its client base. Exploit gets to put its software on
millions of computers in a shorter time.”
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07.12.2007AVG fixes antivirus software skewing Web site statistics
Security company AVG is upgrading a component of its antivirus software so as not to place an undue traffic load on the Web sites it scans. The
company has already released a patch for LinkScanner, part of its Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0, and will release a patch for the paid versions of the
software on Tuesday, said Lloyd Borrett, marketing manager for AVG in Australia and New Zealand.
The behavior of AVG's LinkScanner
caused much animosity toward the Czech-based company, including a Web site dedicated to the issue, despite the popularity of its free security
software. Web site owners complained LinkScanner was hitting their sites repeatedly, using up the bandwidth they paid for and causing their Web
analytics programs to suddenly record high numbers of visitors. AVG acquired LinkScanner's maker, Exploit Prevention Labs, in December 2007.
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07.07.2008AVG Anti-virus 7.5 Professional Released
After a short beta test, AVG
have released a new version of
their anti-virus product, here
is an excerpt from their press
release:
A
significant addition to the
AVG security software
portfolio, AVG Internet
Security 7.5, includes the
most recent anti-virus,
anti-spyware, anti-spam and
firewall technologies with
reliable automatic updates
while consuming a low level of
computer resources for
convenient use. In the AVG
Internet Security Network
Edition, Gristosft offers
centralized remote
administration, which allows
for remote installation,
updating and management of all
workstations and servers.
Grisoft's existing
portfolio for home, small and
medium business users is now
expanded to include AVG
Anti-Spyware 7.5 and AVG
Anti-Malware 7.5 products. AVG
Anti-Spyware 7.5 offers
protection against Trojans,
spyware, adware, dialers,
keyloggers and worms. The AVG
Anti-Malware program combines
the latest anti-spyware and
antivirus technologies within
a single, easy-to-use
interface.
I
couldn't actually find a
changelog between 7.0 and 7.5
but as the above press release
indicates they have released
six new versions of AVG
Anti-virus bringing it up to
fifteen different varieties of
product so if Vista product
versions have you confused you
better sit down.
I
installed 7.5 Professional as
I bought a licence as a
fallback for Symantec making
Norton more horrible than the
previous incarnation, I just
snapped. The interface in 7.5
is slightly different and has
joined the 21st century, I
haven't checked it out with
Windows Vista yet (5728 will
be checked) so will update
this post with its progress as
the 7.0 updater had issues
with Vista, although seems to
be fine if UAC is not
active.
There is no
estimated release date for the
free version at the moment.
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03.10.2006AVG cries wolf at Adobe Reader
A faulty signature update from GRISoft published this week meant that its popular AVG anti-virus package falsely warned versions of Adobe Reader were
infected with a Trojan.
Reg reader Tulio received a false alarm that his system was infected by SHueur-JXW after he downloaded
Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.09. GRISoft acknowledged the problem and said that it planned it issue a new update that fixed the problem on Thursday. Faulty
anti-virus signature updates are far from rare. Symantec, McAfee and others have all had problems in the area in recent months. False alerts are
something of an Achilles heel for anti-virus scanning packages, a factor often highlighted by firms selling alternative approaches to malware
detection (such as white listing)
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31.08.2007Report: little-known AV packages outdo those of Symantec, McAfee, Microsoft
Andreas Clementi, who runs the
web site
http://av-comparatives.org/>av
-comparatives.org, has
released his latest report
that looks at how well
antivirus programs do against
threats that have not yet been
identified and included in
standard AV signatures.
The test looked at 17
different products, including
offerings from Symantec,
McAfee, AVG, Kaspersky, and
Microsoft, and tested how well
releases dated February 2
(with no updates) fared
against a swath of new
malwareviruses, scripts,
trojans, and other nastiesthat
were discovered between
February 2 and May 2.
The winner of this
antivirus sweepstakes was a
product called
http://www.avira.com/en/pages/
index.php>Avira, which managed
to detect and defeat 71
percent of the unknown
malware. Right behind it was
the equally-obscure NOD32,
which swept away 68 percent of
the threats. The more
well-known commercial products
fared more poorly. Norton
Antivirus and McAfee tied at a
mere 24 percent, while
Microsoft's OneCare did even
worse by only identifying 18
percent of the new threats.
Resting at the bottom of the
barrel were Kaspersky and
eScan at nine percent, and
AVG, which detected only eight
percent of malicious software
in addition to producing many
false positives...
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08.06.2007Fix for free anti-virus generating fake traffic
The freeware version of anti-virus software AVG 8 was released with a feature called LinkScanner at the end of May that was found to create massive
amounts of fake traffic, enraging webmasters, and skewing site rankings...
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07.07.2008Cyber-crooks hit one in five Europeans
Over one in five European computer users have fallen victim to cyber-crime, according to new research. Some 22 per cent of 7,000 PC users surveyed by
Ipsos for AVG Technologies had experienced some form of cyber-crime.
Italians fared worst with 32 per cent of users affected, closely
followed by the UK with 31 per cent. The study noted that more Europeans believe that they are likely to experience cyber-crime (34 per cent) than
burglary (22 per cent), assault (19 per cent) or robbery (25 per cent).
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10.06.2008New alliance aims to unite malware fight
A new alliance has been created to formalize information sharing on security protection and develop industry standards.
The
Industry Connections Security Group (ICSG) is parked under the IEEE Standards
Association and includes mostly security heavyweights and antivirus players. The founding members are AVG Technologies, McAfee,
Microsoft, Sophos, Symantec, and Trend Micro.
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19.08.2009Latest MS Update Causing Major Headaches
Broadband
Reports is running a story
regarding the latest MS update
to fix problems with animated
cursors.
"Users in
our Security forum note that
the latest critical Microsoft
Windows update (KB925902) is
causing all kinds of problems.
Most notably, it prevents some
users from loading anti-virus
software, but others say the
update prevented them from
booting entirely. "So far, we
have errors with AVG, Realtec,
F-Secure, a false positive of
a Trojan, a messed up Vaio,
USB problems and Accessories
and Utilities all vanishing
into thin air," says one
security forum regular."
I have personally
installed this on two Vista
machines and one of them
failed to boot after the patch
was installed. Unfortuntely
patches that are often pushed
out too quickly to fix
critical flaws cause adverse
issues on certain
configurations as we have
witnessed in the past. Watch
out for Microsoft rectifying
this with an update to the
patch. Until then do not
install the update if it's
causing issues to your machine
and report these directly to
Microsoft support.
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05.04.2007CCleaner 1.34.405
CCleaner is a freeware system
optimization and privacy tool.
It removes unused files from
your system - allowing Windows
to run faster and freeing up
valuable hard disk space. It
also cleans traces of your
online activities such as your
Internet history. But the best
part is that it's fast
(normally taking less that a
second to run) and contains NO
Spyware or Adware.
Changelog :
- Add
ed cleaning for: Visio 2003,
AVG Anti-Spyware, CuteFTP 8.0
Pro/Home and 7.0 Home, Windows
Live Toolbar, CA
Anti-Virus
- Updated
cleaning for: Outlook 2003,
TextPad 4, Quicktime
Player
- Improved error
handling when opening
RegEdit.
- Fixed issue
with Opera 9 classic
installer.
- Updated
installer
routines.
- Issue
scanner accuracy
improvements.
- Updated
Arabic, Serbian (Latin and
Cyrillic), German and French
translations.
- Minor
optimizations and
tweaks.
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20.10.2006
