AVG free edition provides good security for home users. With AVG free edition, you will get regular updates also freely.  In this post, I am going to talk about what AVG free edition provides and how to secure your system using avg free edition.

AVG free edition has four main components which gives security for the home user. These four components and their functionality are as below.

1) Anti Spyware

Yes, AVG free edition comes with Anti-spyware software. So you need not to install anti-spyware software differently. AVG free edition detects all the spyware and adware.

2) Email Scanner

AVG provides security against email threat also. Incoming mails are automatically scanned by AVG free edition. AVG email scanner support external mail clients like Outlook Express and Thunderbird. It does not scan mails from GMail or Yahoo! mail.

3) Link Scanner

Link Scanner has two components, AVG search shield and AVG active surf shield. AVG search shield gives indication of the threat when you  are searching on the net using any search engine like Google, Yahoo! search or Windows Live. AVG active surf shield is not enabled in free edition. You need to purchase AVG professional edition to take advantage of surf shield. Surf shield blocks viruses at the time of browsing it self. So if you are downloading any virus by mistake at the time of browsing, AVG surf shield will stop it at that time only.

4) Resident Shield

Resident shield provides real time protection. Say you have downloaded a virus(some executable file) and you open it, resident shield will stop the process accessing that file. Resident shield scan each and every file when you access it.

For more detailed description and demonstration, check out the video.

AVG anti virus is a free available anti virus on the internet. If you do Google for “free antivirus”, the first result comes up is from AVG web site. AVG anti-virus free edition 7.5.519 is the top rated free anti virus from CNET. Since it’s free I have downloaded it and checked it. I have also made a video about installation. I hope you will enjoy this video.

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