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images/news/security.jpgAVG (Anti-Virus Free) is a great anti virus and antispyware protection application for Windows which is available to download for free. AVG V8 SP1 (Service Pack 1) is now available for download, with new improvement and fixes.
AVG V8 SP1 Features:
- Remake of internal communication to eliminate undesired program status appearance (hibernation, sleep mode, cold restart, …).
- Display of the system tray icon representing running scan (that can be paused or stopped from the context menu).
- Added option to ignore the status of a component via context menu in the AVG main interface: the system tray icon then reports OK status even if a component is in error status.
- System restore point is created before launching a program update.
- Improved EML file processing including scanning of user mailboxes.
- RAM requirements optimization.
- New design of the system tray pop-up window, and more information provided.
- Improved statistics of detected objects in Email Scanner and resident Shield.
- To eliminate AVG collisions with OS, only minimum drivers are installed in safe mode; then it is possible to launch on-demand scanning from the command line only, and a new GUI dialog has been added to ease the scan configuration.
- Added option of restoring a file from the Virus Vault to the original folder even if the folder has been removed.
- Added option of deleting the Resident Shield and Email Scanner history.
- Improved stability and design of GUI.
- Improved detection of former Lotus Notes/MS Exchange plugins installations during AVG setup.
- Fixed crash during the update process.
- Fixed problems with detection of some external USB DVD/CD drives.
- Fixed problem with inactive components after update.
- Fixed possible corruption of transferred data when the Web Shield is enabled.
- Fixed a possible crash caused by the Web Shield.
- Fixed problem with switching to small font size in Microsoft Internet Explorer after closing AVG User Interface.
- Fixed repetitive backup of scanned files by Vista incremental backup service.
- Improved parsing of Google advertising URLs.
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AVG V8 SP1 Features:
- Remake of internal communication to eliminate undesired program status appearance (hibernation, sleep mode, cold restart, …).
- Display of the system tray icon representing running scan (that can be paused or stopped from the context menu).
- Added option to ignore the status of a component via context menu in the AVG main interface: the system tray icon then reports OK status even if a component is in error status.
- System restore point is created before launching a program update.
- Improved EML file processing including scanning of user mailboxes.
- RAM requirements optimization.
- New design of the system tray pop-up window, and more information provided.
- Improved statistics of detected objects in Email Scanner and resident Shield.
- To eliminate AVG collisions with OS, only minimum drivers are installed in safe mode; then it is possible to launch on-demand scanning from the command line only, and a new GUI dialog has been added to ease the scan configuration.
- Added option of restoring a file from the Virus Vault to the original folder even if the folder has been removed.
- Added option of deleting the Resident Shield and Email Scanner history.
- Improved stability and design of GUI.
- Improved detection of former Lotus Notes/MS Exchange plugins installations during AVG setup.
- Fixed crash during the update process.
- Fixed problems with detection of some external USB DVD/CD drives.
- Fixed problem with inactive components after update.
- Fixed possible corruption of transferred data when the Web Shield is enabled.
- Fixed a possible crash caused by the Web Shield.
- Fixed problem with switching to small font size in Microsoft Internet Explorer after closing AVG User Interface.
- Fixed repetitive backup of scanned files by Vista incremental backup service.
- Improved parsing of Google advertising URLs.
Direct Download
do not use this. after our it guy installed this on a work machine that had had the previous version of avg, avg8 failed, and would not start. i tried rebooting it several times, but to no avail. i uninstalled it, and after several attempts to get online to download something else, i got nod32, and as soon as nod started after rebooting, two virus were detected. this is a machine with thousands of peeps info on it. i wouldn't use this avg product for any mission critical info, period. 
