Avira
Avira GmbH adalah sebuah perusahaan perangkat lunak antivirus buatan Jerman. Aplikasi anti virus yang didasarkan pada Produk AntiVir. Mesin Scan Virus AntiVir Biasa disebut "Luke Filewalker", yang pertama kali diluncurkan pada tahun 1988. Biasa disebut "H + BEDV Datentechnik GmbH" ketika didirikan. Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus gratis untuk penggunaan pribadi. Mesin Anivirus Avira telah digunakan juga untuk Ashampoo antivirus dan Webroot WebWasher.
Produk
'Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus adalah salah satu produk gratis. Aplikasi ini hanya untuk penggunaan pribadi. Seperti kebanyakan perangkat lunak antivirus, ia berguna untuk memindai virus dan juga dijalankan sebagai proses Background, memeriksa setiap file yang dibuka dan ditutup. Hal ini dapat mendeteksi dan menghapus kemungkinan rootkits. Ia juga melakukan Update secara otomatis Lewat Internet setiap hari. dengan iklan menyarankan pengguna untuk membeli Avira AntiVir Premium. Avira Memperbaharui semua produk mereka ke versi 8,0 pada tanggal 14 April 2008.
Avira AntiVir Premium memiliki beberapa perbaikan pada versi gratis, terutama:
-Deteksi dari adware, spyware, phishing
-Email Scan (POP3 dan SMTP)
-WebGuard untuk memblokir akses ke situs berbahaya
-RescueCD bootable untuk malware removal dan pemulihan sistem.
'Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus adalah salah satu produk gratis. Aplikasi ini hanya untuk penggunaan pribadi. Seperti kebanyakan perangkat lunak antivirus, ia berguna untuk memindai virus dan juga dijalankan sebagai proses Background, memeriksa setiap file yang dibuka dan ditutup. Hal ini dapat mendeteksi dan menghapus kemungkinan rootkits. Ia juga melakukan Update secara otomatis Lewat Internet setiap hari. dengan iklan menyarankan pengguna untuk membeli Avira AntiVir Premium. Avira Memperbaharui semua produk mereka ke versi 8,0 pada tanggal 14 April 2008.
Avira AntiVir Premium memiliki beberapa perbaikan pada versi gratis, terutama:
-Deteksi dari adware, spyware, phishing
-Email Scan (POP3 dan SMTP)
-WebGuard untuk memblokir akses ke situs berbahaya
-RescueCD bootable untuk malware removal dan pemulihan sistem.
History
The corporate history of Grisoft and AVG Technologies can be found in the main article.
The brand name AVG comes from Grisoft's first product, "Anti-Virus Guard", launched in 1992 in the Czech republic. In 1997, the first AVG licenses were sold in Germany and UK. AVG was introduced to the U.S. in 1998.[2]
The AVG Free Edition helped raise awareness of the AVG product line.[3]
In 2006, the AVG security package grew to include anti-spyware, as AVG Technologies acquired ewido Networks, an anti-spyware group. That same year, Microsoft announced that AVG components would be available directly within the Windows Vista operating system.
In 2008, AVG moved to include Linkscanner, a safe-surfing technology, into its security package.
AVG is currently moving to acquire Sana Security, and include their products in its package as well.
According to AVG Technologies, over 80 million users have AVG Anti-Virus protection, including users of the Free Edition.
Versions for Windows clients
AVG Technologies provides a number of products from the AVG range, suitable for Windows 2000 onwards. In addition to this, AVG Technologies also provides Linux and FreeBSD versions of the software. AVG Anti-Virus is available in both a free and commercial editions. As of AVG 8.0, the commercial edition AVG Anti-Virus 8.0 product includes the AVG Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, LinkScanner, Anti-Rootkit, Web Shield and Security Toolbar protection technologies. AVG Anti-Virus plus Firewall 8.0 adds integrated firewall protection.
AVG Internet Security 8.0 is a full suite solution which brings together the AVG Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, LinkScanner, Anti-Rootkit, Web Shield, Security Toolbar, Firewall, Anti-Spam and System Tools protection technologies.
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 includes the AVG Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware protection, plus the AVG Search-Shield component of the patent pending LinkScanner technology but lacks anti-rootkit.
All versions of the AVG products, excluding Anti-Rootkit (Discontinued), are compatible with the 64-bit edition of Windows.
Versions for servers
AVG Technologies also sells AVG anti-virus and Internet security solutions for web/file servers or email servers running either Linux, FreeBSD or Windows.
AVG Internet Security Network Edition 8.0 provides centrally controlled comprehensive protection for workstations and file servers. AVG Internet Security SBS Edition 8.0 adds e-mail server and Microsoft SharePoint server protection.
AVG Anti-Virus Network Edition 8.0 provides centrally controlled anti-virus and anti-spyware protection for workstations and file servers. AVG Anti-Virus SBS Edition 8.0 adds e-mail server and Microsoft SharePoint server protection.
AVG File Server Edition 8.0 provides anti-virus and anti-spyware protection for file servers.
AVG E-mail Server Edition provides anti-virus and anti-spyware protection for most popular e-mail servers.
The corporate history of Grisoft and AVG Technologies can be found in the main article.
The brand name AVG comes from Grisoft's first product, "Anti-Virus Guard", launched in 1992 in the Czech republic. In 1997, the first AVG licenses were sold in Germany and UK. AVG was introduced to the U.S. in 1998.[2]
The AVG Free Edition helped raise awareness of the AVG product line.[3]
In 2006, the AVG security package grew to include anti-spyware, as AVG Technologies acquired ewido Networks, an anti-spyware group. That same year, Microsoft announced that AVG components would be available directly within the Windows Vista operating system.
In 2008, AVG moved to include Linkscanner, a safe-surfing technology, into its security package.
AVG is currently moving to acquire Sana Security, and include their products in its package as well.
According to AVG Technologies, over 80 million users have AVG Anti-Virus protection, including users of the Free Edition.
Versions for Windows clients
AVG Technologies provides a number of products from the AVG range, suitable for Windows 2000 onwards. In addition to this, AVG Technologies also provides Linux and FreeBSD versions of the software. AVG Anti-Virus is available in both a free and commercial editions. As of AVG 8.0, the commercial edition AVG Anti-Virus 8.0 product includes the AVG Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, LinkScanner, Anti-Rootkit, Web Shield and Security Toolbar protection technologies. AVG Anti-Virus plus Firewall 8.0 adds integrated firewall protection.
AVG Internet Security 8.0 is a full suite solution which brings together the AVG Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, LinkScanner, Anti-Rootkit, Web Shield, Security Toolbar, Firewall, Anti-Spam and System Tools protection technologies.
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 includes the AVG Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware protection, plus the AVG Search-Shield component of the patent pending LinkScanner technology but lacks anti-rootkit.
All versions of the AVG products, excluding Anti-Rootkit (Discontinued), are compatible with the 64-bit edition of Windows.
Versions for servers
AVG Technologies also sells AVG anti-virus and Internet security solutions for web/file servers or email servers running either Linux, FreeBSD or Windows.
AVG Internet Security Network Edition 8.0 provides centrally controlled comprehensive protection for workstations and file servers. AVG Internet Security SBS Edition 8.0 adds e-mail server and Microsoft SharePoint server protection.
AVG Anti-Virus Network Edition 8.0 provides centrally controlled anti-virus and anti-spyware protection for workstations and file servers. AVG Anti-Virus SBS Edition 8.0 adds e-mail server and Microsoft SharePoint server protection.
AVG File Server Edition 8.0 provides anti-virus and anti-spyware protection for file servers.
AVG E-mail Server Edition provides anti-virus and anti-spyware protection for most popular e-mail servers.
AVG for Linux/FreeBSD
With Version 7.5, AVG Technologies is providing a solution for FreeBSD for the first time. AVG Technologies has incorporated spam detection in addition to virus detection for Linux/FreeBSD software.[citation needed]
Features
AVG features most of the common functions available in modern antivirus and Internet security programs, including periodic scans, scans of sent and received emails (including adding footers to the emails indicating this), the ability to "repair" some virus-infected files, and a "virus vault" in which infected files are held (A quarantine area; also known as a "virus chest").
LinkScanner
The patent pending LinkScanner technology acquired from Exploit Prevention Labs and built into all AVG 8.0 products provides real-time protection against exploits and drive-by downloads. LinkScanner includes: Search-Shield – a safe search component that places safety ratings next to each link in Google, Yahoo! and MSN search results; plus Active Surf-Shield – a safe surf component that scans the contents of a web site in real-time to ensure it's safe being opened.[4] A faulty upgrade in 8.0.233 causing users to lose internet access, as well as concerns regarding web analytics have made LinkScanner a controversial component (see "LinkScanner Concerns").
LinkScanner concerns
AVG Anti-Virus upgrades for version 8.0.233 contain a malfunction in the AVGNSX.exe process, blocking network activity and internet access, causing many other problems.[5] The AVGNSX.exe process is part of the LinkScanner utility. Users can resolve the issue by removing LinkScanner. AVG 8.0.234 has been quietly released, though the update has not yet been made priority to fix the software for the large percentage of AVG's 80 million users.
When AVG 8.0 was first released, its LinkScanner feature was shown to cause an increase in traffic on web sites that appear high in search engine results pages. Since LinkScanner disguises the scans as coming from an Internet Explorer 6 browser when it prescans each site listed in the results, web site usage logs showed incorrect and overinflated site visitor statistics. The prescanning of every link also caused web sites to transfer more data than usual, resulting in higher bandwidth usage for web site operators and slow performance for users.[6] AVG initially said site administrators would be able to filter the LinkScanner traffic out of their site statistics, leaving the problem of excess bandwidth usage still to be solved.[7] Pay-per-click advertising was not affected by the increase in traffic.[8]
In response to complaints, AVG announced that as of July 9, 2008 "Search-Shield will no longer scan each search result online for new exploits, which was causing the spikes that webmasters addressed with us",[9] releasing a new build on that date that applies a local blacklist, then prefetches and scans only those links clicked on by the user.[10]
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0
On April 24, 2008, AVG released AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0. Along with a more colorful interface, the new program added some new features – a combined Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware protection engine, LinkScanner Search-Shield safe search protection, plus the AVG Security Toolbar – which were previously only available in AVG commercial versions.
There are some limitations with AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 compared to the commercial versions of AVG products. These limitations include:
Less protection – AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 provides the same anti-virus and anti-spyware scanning engine as the commercial product; however, it lacks anti-rootkit. The older 7.5 Free Edition is perfectly capable of finding and disabling rootkits based on signatures, but cannot scan for rootkit-like activity. The 8.0 version of AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition version lacks any anti-rootkit capability. Also, it does not provide safe surfing (drive-by download) protection. While there is no official protection for files from messaging sources, the Resident Shield component automatically scans files before they are opened or copied.
Infrequent updates – AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 receives updates via a lower priority service. Priority updating via high-speed servers is only available for the commercial versions of AVG products.
No telephone or e-mail technical support – There is no telephone or e-mail technical support provided by AVG for users of AVG Free Edition products anywhere in the world. AVG Free Edition users have access to support via the self-help AVG Free Forum.
Less customization – Scheduling options in AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 are very limited (only one scheduled update per day, one scheduled scan per day etc.). However, the AVG Resident Shield configuration allows exclusions. The on-demand/scheduled scanner allows advanced testing options such as heuristics and reporting of password-protected archives reporting. Process priority for on-demand/scheduled scans can be dynamically adjusted over three different configurations.
No server support – AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 cannot be installed on server operating systems (such as Windows Server 2003), nor can it be used for the scanning of network drives.
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 is only licensed for home and non-commercial use on a single computer.
AVG Free Edition was once responsible for popup ads advertising the non-free versions of AVG Anti-Virus 8.0 and AVG Internet Security 8.0, which claim to provide more comprehensive levels of protection.[11][12] Current free versions display only in-program banner ads for the full edition, not popups.
With Version 7.5, AVG Technologies is providing a solution for FreeBSD for the first time. AVG Technologies has incorporated spam detection in addition to virus detection for Linux/FreeBSD software.[citation needed]
Features
AVG features most of the common functions available in modern antivirus and Internet security programs, including periodic scans, scans of sent and received emails (including adding footers to the emails indicating this), the ability to "repair" some virus-infected files, and a "virus vault" in which infected files are held (A quarantine area; also known as a "virus chest").
LinkScanner
The patent pending LinkScanner technology acquired from Exploit Prevention Labs and built into all AVG 8.0 products provides real-time protection against exploits and drive-by downloads. LinkScanner includes: Search-Shield – a safe search component that places safety ratings next to each link in Google, Yahoo! and MSN search results; plus Active Surf-Shield – a safe surf component that scans the contents of a web site in real-time to ensure it's safe being opened.[4] A faulty upgrade in 8.0.233 causing users to lose internet access, as well as concerns regarding web analytics have made LinkScanner a controversial component (see "LinkScanner Concerns").
LinkScanner concerns
AVG Anti-Virus upgrades for version 8.0.233 contain a malfunction in the AVGNSX.exe process, blocking network activity and internet access, causing many other problems.[5] The AVGNSX.exe process is part of the LinkScanner utility. Users can resolve the issue by removing LinkScanner. AVG 8.0.234 has been quietly released, though the update has not yet been made priority to fix the software for the large percentage of AVG's 80 million users.
When AVG 8.0 was first released, its LinkScanner feature was shown to cause an increase in traffic on web sites that appear high in search engine results pages. Since LinkScanner disguises the scans as coming from an Internet Explorer 6 browser when it prescans each site listed in the results, web site usage logs showed incorrect and overinflated site visitor statistics. The prescanning of every link also caused web sites to transfer more data than usual, resulting in higher bandwidth usage for web site operators and slow performance for users.[6] AVG initially said site administrators would be able to filter the LinkScanner traffic out of their site statistics, leaving the problem of excess bandwidth usage still to be solved.[7] Pay-per-click advertising was not affected by the increase in traffic.[8]
In response to complaints, AVG announced that as of July 9, 2008 "Search-Shield will no longer scan each search result online for new exploits, which was causing the spikes that webmasters addressed with us",[9] releasing a new build on that date that applies a local blacklist, then prefetches and scans only those links clicked on by the user.[10]
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0
On April 24, 2008, AVG released AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0. Along with a more colorful interface, the new program added some new features – a combined Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware protection engine, LinkScanner Search-Shield safe search protection, plus the AVG Security Toolbar – which were previously only available in AVG commercial versions.
There are some limitations with AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 compared to the commercial versions of AVG products. These limitations include:
Less protection – AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 provides the same anti-virus and anti-spyware scanning engine as the commercial product; however, it lacks anti-rootkit. The older 7.5 Free Edition is perfectly capable of finding and disabling rootkits based on signatures, but cannot scan for rootkit-like activity. The 8.0 version of AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition version lacks any anti-rootkit capability. Also, it does not provide safe surfing (drive-by download) protection. While there is no official protection for files from messaging sources, the Resident Shield component automatically scans files before they are opened or copied.
Infrequent updates – AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 receives updates via a lower priority service. Priority updating via high-speed servers is only available for the commercial versions of AVG products.
No telephone or e-mail technical support – There is no telephone or e-mail technical support provided by AVG for users of AVG Free Edition products anywhere in the world. AVG Free Edition users have access to support via the self-help AVG Free Forum.
Less customization – Scheduling options in AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 are very limited (only one scheduled update per day, one scheduled scan per day etc.). However, the AVG Resident Shield configuration allows exclusions. The on-demand/scheduled scanner allows advanced testing options such as heuristics and reporting of password-protected archives reporting. Process priority for on-demand/scheduled scans can be dynamically adjusted over three different configurations.
No server support – AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 cannot be installed on server operating systems (such as Windows Server 2003), nor can it be used for the scanning of network drives.
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 is only licensed for home and non-commercial use on a single computer.
AVG Free Edition was once responsible for popup ads advertising the non-free versions of AVG Anti-Virus 8.0 and AVG Internet Security 8.0, which claim to provide more comprehensive levels of protection.[11][12] Current free versions display only in-program banner ads for the full edition, not popups.
