Generally provides only minimal protection, but completely free against viruses, worms, trojans, dialer-s and other types of programs affecting your computer, personal data, etc.. Free AVG Antivirus 2012 makes automatically update the latest virus definitions about, you provide real-time protection, scheduled scans at various intervals, quarantining infected files, etc..
What's New in AVG Anti-Virus Free 2012?
It is the 10th year of this free antivirus protection for your PC. It was expected that AVG editions since 2012, at least partially, migrate to the cloud computing field, but ... it seems that we need to expect it in 2013 version, even nothing was announced in this direction, but the competitive pressures cause us to hope.
Otherwise, the changing of AVG Free 2012 is related to improvement of heuristics scanning, Polymorphic malware detection and new rootkits, eliminate false alerts, solving problems related to freezing or closing of antivirus when scanning registry, etc..
Licence for AVG Anti-Virus Free 2012
Note that the license for AVG Free is available only for personal use (home computer) of this software for computer data security. For companies or commercial use you need to buy a license of one between the other two editions of AVG.
AVG Editions
There are three editions of AVG:
- Free AVG Anti-Virus 2012 (offers minimal protection for PCs, including browsing and searching the Web or use social networks);
- AVG Anti-Virus 2012 (free version before it provides protection for sharing and downloading files from PCs);
- AVG Internet Security 2012 (provides enhanced protection for anything, even if it's threats to your PC exclusive, internal network or the Internet: searching and browsing the Web, socializing, exchange and sharing files from PCs, email, streaming, including shopping and banking services).
Minimum requirements for AVG AntiVirus Free 2012
- Intel Pentium 1.5 GHz (1.8 GHz recommended) or equivalent;
- 512 MB RAM;
- 950 MHz (1350 MB recommended) HDD space.
