Tag archive: AVG

Following on the heels of competitor Avast, security and antivirus developer AVG has announced it has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to make an initial public offering to raise up to $125 million, which it plans to use to continue and expand its operations—potentially through acquisitions. The IPO will be managed by Morgan Stanley & Co, J.P. Morgan Securities, and Goldman Sachs & Co., although AVG has… Read More

Though I'm fairly sure I learned to play Super Mario Bros. before I learned to ride a bike without training wheels, it appears my childhood was ahead of the curve. According to a study by AVG, young children are more adept at technology than some basic life skills. In a poll of 2,200 mothers with Internet access and children between 2 and 5 years old, more children knew how to play video games (58 percent) than knew how to ride a bike (43… Read More

Whether you’re looking to protect a brand new PC, or remove any annoying virus that has managed to sneak on to your laptop, anti-virus software is essential. But buying anti-virus software can get expensive, especially after you start racking up the yearly subscription charges you’ll need to stay up to date. Fortunately, a handful of companies offer very effective free anti-virus solutions – many even outstrip competing commercial packages in… Read More

Antivirus updates do sometimes identify false positives, and that’s embarrassing. But over the weekend AVG pulled a doozie on iTunes. It identified iTunes.dll and iTunesRegistry.dll library files as being infected with the Small-BOG virus, and consigned into quarantine. That meant, for AVG users, iTunes stopped working and people couldn’t re-install the software, according to The Register. Within 24 hours, AVG had issued a… Read More

The Windows file user32.dll is not malware. However, in an AVG antivirus update issued on Sunday, it was wrongly identified as the banking Trojan PSW.Banker4.APSA, according to ZDNet. Those who followed the recommendation and deleted the file discovered that they either could not boot up their machines or they continually rebooted. Unsurprisingly, that left the forums filled with people seeking advice. Later the same day the company… Read More

A free registration is required to run AVG. You will be emailed a registration code and can not install it without it. The installer does provide a link during installation to get your code. WithAVG, you will get a reliable tool for your computer protection against computer viruses. Main Features: – AVG Resident Protection – AVG Email Scanner – AVG On-Demand Scanner – Scheduled Tests –… Read More